Hello again, dear AH gurus.

Having recently acquired my 5th big box, the storage and transportation issue has become almost ridiculous. I'm at a point where running around with AH equals restricting my vision to that what's above my nose.

Since I've ordered the last two missing small boxes to complete my collection, I've been tinkering with the idea of having a custom flightcase made, complete with an ordered card rack and token tray. The idea is to have all the decks accessible in the suitcase during play. That way the setup time can be handled, as well as the storage and transportation problem.

The thing is: I've been measuring the sizes of the boards, cards and decks, made a list of the different counters, etc. so that I can plan out a practical design. The only problem I face is that I'm considering sleeving all the cards, but I have no idea how to factor that into my measurements.

I've thought of sleeving before designing the case, but I fear that might make storage impossible without an intermediate solution.

So my question to the community: does anyone have an idea of how much higher a sleeved deck becomes? Does anybody have measurements at hand? A few measured decks would suffice.

I would be using FFG's sleeves if it makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for any and all comments.

Oh, and one more detail that might be relevant: I decided to keep the original Dark Pharaoh cards in the mix. (Both Mythos/Gates/Encounters and Items/Spells/etc.).

In my experience, how much height sleeves add depends on how many card are in the deck. Mainly because the sleeves seems to compress better if there're only a small number of them, for whatever reason. As a general rule of thumb, I'd say sleeving at least doubles the height of the deck when it's sitting unrestricted.

For small (height-wise) decks, like the location encounter decks, I would expect the impact of sleeving to be minimal. For taller decks, like mythos cards, it will be more of an issue. Depending on how tightly you want the cards held in the case, I'd budget 1.5 to 2 times the current height. (Personally I would lean toward the looser end of the spectrum, since holding them too tightly might cause friction damage right through the sleeve, and then what would be the point of sleeving?)

I suppose it will also depend on what kind of sleeves you use, though. I hear FFG's sleeves are a bit thicker than standard trading card sleeves. My experience is based on standard sleeves, btw. It might be best to sleeve your cards first after all. As far as transportation, maybe consider not transporting all the expansions until your custom case is finished, if that's what it comes down to.