I got that album thingy with inserts, but whats bugging me is - if im not aiming to collect a whole edition, how do i organise my cards? by color? by some other order? I have mixed WoE and Commander Masters cards, but would like to have them somewhere nice when they are not in decks.
If i like an ed and want to have it complete then its going into its own album / fold and sorted by numbers.
I kinda hoped ixalan would be it, but that mixed universe thing is so not my cup of tea…
Very fair! I would posit that for a large collection where you keep every single card you open, and for which you have an online collection tracker such as deckbox.org, using the organising system I mentioned is still the best. There will always be one single place that a card you’re looking for would be, and nowhere else.
@calvinball Sorting by collector number is bad unless you can remember which copy of The Second Doctor you are looking for, is it #156, #440, #553, #761, #1031, or #1144?
When cards had a single printing in a set (and the exceptions were #160a & #160b so they’d be adjacent is a good solution) it was viable. If you want to keep things by set (which I disagree with, but I only build decks for eternal formats) at least do pure alphabetical or colour alphabetical inside the set. You don’t want to hunt for multiple copies of a single card in several sections of that set.
Well that’s why I said it was only good if you have an online collection tracker where you catalog all your cards . I know exactly where all my copies of The Doctor are because I have recorded which versions I have. I can then build my decks online, and once I’m ready to play them I just go to my collection with a list of set and collector numbers and I can pull out exactly what I need