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Download CSVs
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Add preconstructed decks to your inventory quickly and easily using CSV files!

Instructions: Open the above webpage, find and download the CSV for the product you want, then add it to your inventory via "Add Cards > From a CSV file". Note that this will add to your inventory rather than replace your inventory.

Contributions: Please help me build and maintain a list of CSVs. You can either create a CSV for a missing product and upload it via a comment on this thread (and then I'll get it added to the above webpage). Or you can just confirm the accuracy of the CSV files that I've created (usually only the basic land artworks need to be verified). You can find a list of unverified and missing CSVs on the webpage.

Thank Yous: Thankful for this resource and want to take a minute to let me know? You can do so here! 

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Original Proposal
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I propose a new method of adding cards from preconstructed decks, for those of us who have the complete product and just want to add all applicable cards.

What I'd like to see as the ultimate version of this feature is the ability to add all the cards in a preconstructed sealed product to your inventory, all at once. I can see this being possible from 2 places:

1. There would be a 5th option in the "Add Cards" area called "Add From Sealed Product", in which you can filter all the preconstructed products, select one, and add a full set of cards, as many times as you need to.

   
   

   So if you have, e.g. 2 KTK Event Decks, you could filter by product ("event deck") and/or by associated set ("Khans of Tarkir"), tap the deck to select it, then tap an "Add" button twice.

   
   

2. If you go to the Editions page, and then go to the "Sealed products for this edition" link, each product could have a similar "Add to Inventory" button.

This is different from the already existing Edition Checklist and "Add one of each card" feature in 3 ways:

1. Most sealed products have multiples of many cards, not just 1x, so the proposed Add Sealed feature would add the correct number of each card.

2. Not all sealed products are its own edition. While currently I can copy and paste a decklist for a Commander or Duel Deck into the "Add From List" field and then select the appropriate edition in "Default Values", this method wouldn't work for products like event and intro decks.

3. For collectors who are as anal as I am, the correct quantities of each basic land by collector number in the product will be added. So e.g. rather than Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska having simply 21 Islands, it would add 5 of Island (# 37), 4 of Island (# 38), and so on.

I have a lot of sealed preconstructed products. I want to include them in my owned cards, but I don't want to open them just to determine what set a card is from or how many of each specific printing of a basic land there is.

As a temporary solution, as well as a contribution toward the permanent solution, we could start a community effort to upload CSV files of any preconstructed products that we own and have already opened, but that we can also guarantee accuracy on (in regards to the set each card is from as well as to the quantity of each collector number). While we're waiting for the Deckbox feature, users could go to this community resource and download the needed CSV files. This collection of files will also greatly assist the Deckbox team by providing them the necessary data to implement this feature.

I've done a lot of inefficient and uneconomical card acquisition for past sets, and I want to start buying smarter. My goal is to have a playset of each common/uncommon and at least 1 of each rare and mythic (maybe 4x "bulk" rares). I am focusing on the most recent sets and all future sets -- I consider older sets a lost cause, at least for now.

Here are the methods I'm considering:

• Complete sets: I recently discovered factory-sealed complete sets. I really like the *idea* of these -- you get exactly the number of cards you want, and they're guaranteed mint condition. I assume, though, that you pay a premium for the unopened condition and that you could get them cheaper if this doesn't matter to you? Complete sets seem to be anywhere from $100-150 for the more recent sets.

• C/U playsets: You can easily get playsets of all commons and uncommons for a set fairly cheaply. They seem to often be around $30 or so.

• Booster boxes: If you buy a booster box, you'll be getting ~360 commons and ~108 uncommons, so for a large set you'll be getting 3-4 of the commons and 1-2 of most uncommons. You'll get over half the rares, and 1/3 of the mythics. In a small set, you're almost guaranteed to get playsets of all the commons (6 of many), 2 of most uncommons, 1 of almost all the rares, and possibly 1/2 the mythics.

• Singles. Obviously.

I'm trying to decide which path is the most economical, both in terms of cost as well as least over-duplication. Please help me decide.

• Buy 1 booster box (more than one will get you too many commons), and fill out the missing pieces by buying singles.

• Buy 4x complete commons/uncommons, and buy the rares/mythics as singles.

• Buy 4 complete sets, factory sealed or not.

• Buy 1 complete set, and additional complete sets of commons/uncommons to make playsets.

• Buy the set in singles.

I assume that when it comes to commons/uncommons, buying singles will be more expensive than buying in bulk. The question is whether the complete sets are worth it. A booster box looks more attractive when it's for a small set than when it's for a large set, but for either, the ultimate cost of taking this path is harder to determine.

One consideration is that if I go with a more modular approach (so not complete sets), I don't have to buy every single card. I wouldn't be surprised if cards followed the 80/20 rule -- i.e. you can get 80% of the cards for 20% of the cost, and vice versa. Then I could choose how far above the 80% I want to spend. For instance, I like W, U, B, and G all to some extent.... but I can't stand red. I'd be perfectly fine not buying a $40 red card!

A final question: As I'm not a Standard player, I don't mind waiting to get a new set If it's worth it. Does a set's price, as a whole, drop significantly after rotating out of Standard?

So I've recently realized I should start taking better care of my cards, and I was introduced to the idea of double sleeving, which really seems best. Based on reviews I've done, I'm going to go with the KMC Perfect Fits and KMC Hyper Matte sleeves. This is great for decks.... but my questions are:

• When do you double sleeve? It only seems viable in decks (and binders, which I don't use). How do you keep your other cards properly protected (probably only 10% of my cards are currently in decks)?

• Which cards do you protect? Do you put all your cards in *at least* penny sleeves, or do you just not worry about commons and only protect higher rarities? Or only cards worth a certain amount or more?

While I can get the KMC products in bulk, it's still going to cost 3.1 cents per sleeve and 7 cents per deck sleeve. At 10.1 cents per card, that's $6.06 per 60 card deck, $7.58 with a 15 card sideboard, and $10.10 per commander deck. As for all my other cards, if I put them all in sleeves, at 3.1 cents and over 10,000 cards (not counting duplicates past 4 and cards in decks)..... $310+. Ha. Yeah.

Note that I am part player, part collector. That is, I'm not a hard-core collector who'll pay $100 for a card just to complete my collection, but I'm also not a hard-core player who only keeps cards for my decks and trades/sells/trhows any other cards. So any suggestion to just cull my collection is not a helpful one, sorry.

I realize this is partly "personal preference", "depends on your budget", and the like. But I'm interested in community opinions and other people's thought processes.