Being new to the game and completely obsessed with keeping my collection presentable and clean for trades, I'm curious how the rest of you choose to organize your binders?

Ive been going with colour organized, by rarity and of course faction aligned.

What about you?

What do you think looks best?

It doesn't look too pretty but I've been keeping everything organized by set and number, it ends up being easier to manage when used in tandem with deckbuilding apps since they keep everything in numerical order as well. I tried doing things by color, cost, then rarity for MTG but it would get messy quick whenever I got a new card and had to re-organize.

I'm still trying to find a good solution for storing the dice however, turns out having it all in a big sack makes things difficult to find.

Yep, I've done the same with my Awakenings cards and plan to get a second book to store my Spirit of Rebellion. Standard 10-page card book, cards in numerical order front and back. It'll hold up to 180 different cards, which accomodates each of the current sets nicely.

I have binders by Faction. Within each binder, I have sections for Characters, Upgrades, Supports and Events, all sorted by color.

Sorting decks by card number wasn't bad, however it sorts by color then by card type, while which works was a little harder to find exact cards. It also became less useful when more than one set was stored in the same binder.

I have those big white cardboard boxes that some game stores sell, and each one has room for four rows of cards/dice (12 dice have the same cross-sectional area as one card). Within the boxes, the cards are sorted by set in every other row, with the intervening rows holding the dice for that set. I keep spare card sleeves, bags of tokens, etc. in there to keep the dice from sliding around. In each set, the cards are sorted by number. I find that this system works best for me, with the only annoying part being fishing around for the right dice.

I also have a couple of pieces of paper printed out with huge spreadsheet-looking graphs that I fill in with pencil. Each row has a column for Number, Name, Have, and Want, so I can keep track of what I have and want for trades relatively easily.

By faction and color. Right now everything is stuffed in one binder. I'm going to buy a few more and spread them out.

For cards, i use regular binders... 1 for low numbers (the rares, most will trade only rares) and 1 for higher numbers (Common uncommon).

For dices, I found a solution, have been using this for 2 months.

http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/usa/html/onlineshop/rub/b02_5litre2_5LT.php

Not for star wars intended at first, but it fits exactly to layers of dice, so if you flip the box when closed, you can see the bottom layer without removing all the dice all the time. Box is extremelly sturdy and internal division helps with color management.

Thanks

Add on: If you don't order online, this is available at business depot, in french "Bureau en gros".

I run red, yellow, blue, grey, and by type. Villain, neutral, Hero. From there I do each color by number and set. I don't separate the sets

33 minutes ago, ozmodon said:

I run red, yellow, blue, grey, and by type. Villain, neutral, Hero. From there I do each color by number and set. I don't separate the sets

I mush all my sets together into one collection as well. I figure that I don't build my deck from a single set, so pit everything I need in one place for me to find.

By number in a binder for each set.

2 hours ago, RookiePilot said:

I mush all my sets together into one collection as well. I figure that I don't build my deck from a single set, so pit everything I need in one place for me to find.

I try to get 2 cards of each villain, Hero, and 4 of each neutral. That way I can build one Hero and one Villain deck and have the cards to do both. It helps to have 2 decks to play when going down to the local store. It makes getting new people involved easy when you can set down and play a game with them.

I struggled a little too much with this in the beginning. Finally just settled on neutral, villain, and hero together by color then alphabetical skipping spots for needed cards. Two in each space with a separate trade folder in which the commons are simply stacked in an old magic cardboard deck box. Makes it easy to build decks on the fly or try new ideas without a deck builder. That being said still not sure this is the way to go but it's what I am doing for now.

I started out in deck boxes, but have recently moved to binders. 1 set per binder, in card number order. I find it helps not only with organization, but also is easier for me when I take inventory and looking at my needs/available trade options.

Also, I find that the number organization exposes me to cards better than any other method. They run in color/faction order, which I find helps greatly in deckbuilding. Spreading the card types out also helps expose me to more cards than I'd otherwise see, and I think let's me think of combos better.

Gone through a few ways, but what I've been doing lately is having sections for hero characters, upgrades, supports, then events, then repeat for the neutral and villain. Within each of those sections, have the blue, then the yellow, then the red, then the gray. I use a ring notebook with card sleeve pages than can be removed or added as needed, so if I need a new page in the middle of the book as I get new cards it's easy to add it in.

Works well when I was using 1 binder, but now with the Awakenings reprint I've had to start on a second, we'll see how well it holds up.

Trades I keep in a separate binder entirely, they are just sorted by rarity.

Dice I just use tackleboxes, separated out by color, one box for each set.

Front of Binder
Villain Red (A, SoR)
Villain Blue (A, SoR)
Villain Grey (A, SoR)
Villain Yellow (A, Sor)
Hero Red (A, SoR)
Hero Blue (A, SoR)
Hero Grey (A, SoR)
Hero Yellow (A, Sor)
Neut Red (A, SoR)
Neut Blue (A, SoR)
Neut Grey (A, SoR)
Neut Yellow (A, Sor)
-Divider-
Trade Stock.
End of Binder

But I only binder Rare / Legendary. Everything else goes in a box organized almost the same. All hero by color for A, then for SoR. Then Villain, then Neuts.

good timing on this topic. after opening my awakenings box last weekend ive got enough cards that i needed a better option to store them all, so i started a binder. ive been kind of struggling with the best way to organize. started with sorting by hero/villain and color/cost, but im not sure if im going to reorganize them.

glad to see some other ways people are organizing to give me some ideas.

I find this works well to help me build decks, though more and more I'm building them online and then finding the cards I need.

Front of Binder
Locations
Hero Characters (Red, Blue, Yellow)
Hero Upgrades (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Hero Supports (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Hero Events (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Villain Characters (Red, Blue, Yellow)
Villain Upgrades (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Villain Supports (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Villain Events (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Neutral Upgrades (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Neutral Supports (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Neutral Events (Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey)
Trade Stock.
End of Binder

@joeshmoe554 Yep, that's pretty much how I do it except it is spread across five binders at this point. I also don't bother to put my trades in the binders, as it's too much work to keep rearranging them as I make trades and and buy additional packs.

And, my dice are sorted in this order too!

DIY case and ultra pro binder for each expansion with the cards running 1,2,3,4 etc