We all know the feeling. Making a deck, need to add a Street of Sisters.....oh wait, I have no idea where that card is. Is it in one of my other decks? Or is it in one of the multitude of card piles I have strewn about my room?

How do you organise your cards? Currently I have one pile of cards per house, split into chars, locations, attachments then house-specific events. Another pile for completely neutral cards. I have to say this isn't working for me. It oftens takes me ages to find one specific card I need. I know some people use card binders, I tried it once and found it a bit of a hassle really. What are your methods, if any, for keeping your AGOT cards in a accessible, easy-to-find system?

I am using Ultra Pro 9-Pocket pages in binders to organize my cards. I don't sort them by house. The cards are simply archived according to set (core, expansion, chapter pack) and their respective number within that set. This way I have no headache when adding new cards. If I don't remember where a particular card is, I simply check one of the great card databases, like cardgamedb.com or agot.dbler.com.

This is working out great for me, since I'm building most of my decks using the great deck builder tool on cardgamedb.com. Once the deck is done, I simply fetch the cards from my binders, put them in sleeves, and I'm done.

I keep mine in a pretty standard card box. Sorted by house, then those sorted into characters, attachments, events and locations, further sorted by gold cost. Plots are sorted first by income, then claim, then initiative. Used to go the binder route, but that became too much of a hassle to keep it organized the way I like.

9 pocket pages in 3 ring binders, organized just like Saturnine, by set and then card number. This way all you ever have to do when adding new cards is add pages to the back of the binder.

Big white shoebox of sorts. Organized by House and in alphabetical order. Plots, Events and Agendas are kept separate and organized alphabetically.

Standard card boxes, sorted by housem then by card type. I do keep all neutral cards in binders though, plots & agendas in one binder, attachments, locations, and events in another... plots are sorted roughly by the set or CP they came in, but I keep all the "House X only" plots in the front so it's easier to locate them.

I have the mess that is Greyjoy and Martell in my Core box, until I get the expansions. I've got playable decks for the rest in deckboxes, and larger card boxes of various types for all the other unused cards. My card purchases are usually outpacing my storage purchases, but at least I have a system that lets me find any particular house quickly. Software to tell what I actually have is essential when trying out recommended deck builds.

I stiore them by House in the old booster boxes. I try to crrespond a box with a box with a House character for each faction. so VED for Lannister, Tourney of Swords for Stark, Sea of Storms for Greyjoy, Crown of Suns for Maretll etc. The Targs go in a nice expensive silver box i used to lug around everyhwere - as befitting the true Queen.

Duplicate post for some stupid reason.

9-pocket-pages in ring binders.

First, House cards

Then, Agendas, by Set/Card#

Then, Plots, by Income (from lowest to highest), then by Set/Card#

Then Events, house-specific, by House, then by Set/Card#

Then Events, Neutral, by Set/Card#

Then Multi-House Cards, then Neutrals, then House-specific Cards, by House.

Within each of the above groups: First Characters (by Gold cost from lowest to highest, then by Set/Card#), then Locations (likewise), then Attachments (likewise)

I used to have time to organize well - now it is mainly putting cards into 'unplayable' and 'very playable' stacks, and keeping the playable ones in a one-row box by house. Sometimes (but rarely) I have to go into the unplayable box if something makes them better...but not often.

rings said:

This made me laugh out loud. I've recently found myself "side-decking" certain cards to swap in between decks. I'm guessing, sadly, that the unplayable stack is a bit larger than it should be

I have the Core Set to the Stark Box in two binders in order of the cycle set and card #. Brotherhood and the Bara Box are in one of those card board boxes from the Days of Ice and Fire Event. I separate each chapter pack by cutting and using the cardboard inserts found in the chapter packs. At the end of the 6 chapter packs I have the 3 Bara "decks" that I combined into one so duplicates of cards are adjacent to each other.

I plan on using this same method for SoO and the Targ Box. I may even do this for sets (i.e. DotN/Stark) I already have in binder. I've found the cardboard box method I'm using to be much more compact and lighter. it's also cheaper, and I've found it just as easy to search through (need X card? Go to Box Y, chapter pack Z, and look for it). I'll probably just keep the SoO and Targ cards in their own packs/boxes until the 4th or 5th pack is out. I want to make sure there are enough cards to most fill up the cardboard box I plan to put them in before placing them there.

Has anyone had luck somehow utilizing the core set game box for permanent storage when you have extra cards?

I have one of each card in binders in card pages, double sided so 18 per page, currently at 3 binders, one for core set and house expansions and the others for chapter packs, just started new one for Secrets of Oldtown cycle. My extras that are over 1 are in clear plastic storage drawers I got at walmart, sorted by house, neutral, plots and agendas. I have another clear drawer on top of it for my decks and one underneath that has my W:I stuff. They stack to form a tower.

blumax1981 said:

Actually, that's how I stored my cards for a long time until I had too many and it became unwieldy. I glued three strips of cardboard into one half of the box, so I had four rows of cards. Couldn't close the box, though, but it was a thematic and somewhat convenient way to store them.

Like many others, I have cards separated by house, then by type, then cost alphabetically and stored in card boxes. Neutrals are also organized the same way. Agendas also. I keep at least one copy of all my plots sleeved and stored in deckboxes so that it's easy to switch out plots for any given deck. I also keep all the neutral reducers/locations and often-used cards (like Syrio, Varys, carrion birds, and ravens) in a separate divider. Lastly, I keep all the restricted cards in a separate pile.

I sort everything in separate stacks unless a card is in a deck at the moment.

Each house will have a stack for characters, locations, attachments and house specific events. Everything is sorted primarily by cost but characters are then also sorted by strength and uniques are generally put ahead of non-uniques in a specific cost+strength bracket.

Events are sorted by what their function is.

Neutral characters are grouped by traits first and then by cost and strength. Neutral events are also grouped by their function.