Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've recently begun collecting expansions and decks after owning the core set for a couple of years. Over Christmas, I ordered a Broken Token organizer. Can anyone give me some tips on how best to organize my cards moving forward? Should I keep my expansions, decks, etc. together or organize by card type? Any advice woukd be greatly appreciated.

Jameson

I do it by cycle and sphere for player cards, but by encounter set for encounter deck.

Ex. Kazad dum Heroes, leadership, tactics, spirit, lore, neutral. Dwarrowdelf same 5 subdivisions.

I keep my player cards in a huge 4" ring binder. Cards are simply sorted in release order since I can use Ringsdb to list my deck in release order.

I organise my cards as follow :

-heroes by sphere

-allies by sphere

-then, cards by traits : Dunedain, Hobbit, Outlands, sitar, Ends, Warrior, Gondor, etc. I put allies in some traits (like dwarves) and separate them from attachments and events

-after that, cards are classified by effect (I include some allies with specific abilities in those sections), like attack, defense, allies, encounter deck and victory display, enemy block, resources, questing and threat, healing and conditions, etc.

In each section, cards are organized by sphere (neutral, leadership, lore, spirit and tactics), attachments before events, and everything by price.

I have all the cards of the game, so this system makes it easier to fetch cards and putting them back afterward.

I organize my player cards as follows:

Heroes are kept in a deck, sorted by sphere and then alphabetically

Cards are kept in binders sorted as follows:

1) Sphere

2) Type (allies, attachment, events -- side-quests sorted with attachment)

3) Approximate Cost (allies 4+/3/2/0-1, attachments 3+/2/1/0, events 2+/1/0)

I keep only matches on #1-#3 on the same binder page, so that I always have 0-8 empty slots for a given combination. If I run out of space I add a new binder page. I find this allows me to scan and find the cards I want fairly easily, while allows me to add new cards easily without having to move existing cards to new pockets.

How many binders do you have? Just curious... the game has now around 4 000 cards...

At the moment I use two binders, one for Leadership/Lore and the other for Spirit/Tactics/Neutral/Saga. I don't put encounter cards in the binders, and the number of player cards is far short of 4,000. (Each quest is kept in its own deck, and each cycle's common encounter cards are kept in a deck. Those encounter decks are stored in a box.)