How do you sort/store your cards?

By theredviper, in 1. AGoT General Discussion

How do people out there store their cards? If you have a complete collection, it gets rather insane.

I have binders with card sheets, 1 per house and 1 for Agendas, Plots and Neutral cards. Multi house cards are all kept together in their own section, as are events (but by house).

I think I will put the house only events with that house, but I'm not sure what else to change. I try to keep similarly traited cards together, but ultimately it's difficult as cards share many attributes with many other cards.

Anybody else doing something innovative? Clearly what I want is to be able to browse my cards when I'm working on a themed deck and be able to see what might fit. Even if I'm building the deck online, I need them somehow organized logically so I'm not searching endlessly for certain cards.

For all of my LCGs, I store them in numerical order by set. I usually look for and make decks using CardGameDB, so after that it's easy to find the cards I need.

At the moment i have http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004P364YY/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 , one box for each house including house events sorted via type then gold cost, and one for Events, Multihouse cards, Agendas, one for plots and one for neutral locations & characters.

I like boxes instead of folders for some reason.

I find it easier finding character/location/attachments when sorted by gold cost.

I recently bought http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004MXXVSE/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 on recommendations from two friends. It should be able to store all my aGoT cards, CoC and VTES cards easily.

When I started playing and didn't know the cards well - I often had to browse them to familiarize myself with the cards and any neat themes I may have missed. Then, I sorted everything by house, card type (Attachment, Character, Event, Location), and alphabetically within that list. If I wanted to find a card, I always knew where it would be simply by its name.

The trouble with that, obviously, is that every time I'd buy new cards I'd have to re-organize my entire collection... I persisted for a while, but when I finally felt comfortable enough with the cards that I don't browse through the physical cards anymore, I settled on organizing by House/Set (by release order; eg Core, Deluxe, Clash, Seasons etc)/card number within that set. That way, the newest cards from the newest CPs are always just added to the end of the binder.

Good advice, thanks. I think I will re-order by set and number. It just makes more sense for the reasons you mention Istaril. It has the added bonus that things like Season, Naval and other chapter pack themes will naturally end up together.

Plus I can see if I'm missing anything. :(

I just have them in a box by house... you guys are fancy.

I think this is actually more important than you would first think as you can quite often 'miss' certain cards that would improve a deck, ie neutral cards or multiple house cards......Anyway the sorting

I arrange the cards within Ultra Pro Leather binders, each sleeve holds 3 copies of each card and typically the binders are as follows :

3 Binders : Each with 2 houses

1 Binder : Plot cards and Event cards

1 Binder : Neutral cards and Agendas

Houses are sorted by Locations, Attachments and Characters and put in order by way of chapter packs so each 'theme' is together. Each house has it's own colour sleeves

Plot cards sorted in a similar fashion but again house specific cards have there own colour

Event cards are sorted based on Neutral cards ( green ) and then each house having it's own colour

When cards then form part of a deck then i resleeve in the appropriate sleeves depending on house so i always know which cards are currently in use.

Initially this was time consuming and did require a bit of thought but this way allows for growth when new chapters are released and likewise when you are sorting it allows you to re read each card to improve familiarity.

The END

Aghhhh, binders are awful. Way too much work (keeping it organized, pulling cards out for decks). Also too expensive (all those pages).

I found long boxes that fit in a green grocery bag, actually it is a blue Mayfair Games bag. Anyways, I can fit all the attachments, characters, and locations of two houses in one box (sorted by type, then cost, then alphabetically). Another box is events and plots. One box is multi-house cards and neutral cards. Final box is assembled decks.

I do most of my deck building online, but I still take a quick pass through my cards to make sure I didn't miss something.