1 Reply by djp1968

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psrex wrote:

It sounds like you have a good approach planned.

If you are going to go with the premium account for now, you can also note specific cards that are in a given deck.  I like to keep track of what cards are in each deck, as it helps figure out where specific cards are and where I still need to upgrade cards to foil.

The ability to easily add cards to specific sets with the + and - buttons is wonderful.  Just make sure that you set your default values properly before you do.  You'll probably want to set NM as the default condition and specify that your cards are in English.

For proxies, I would suggest marking them as textless cards.  There is no legitimate reason to use that property any longer, so it makes it very clear that something unusual is going on, and you'll also have an easy way to filter your collection as well.  You can just filter your inventory for textless cards and see them all really easily.  If you want to get a rough idea of your collection value you can filter your inventory to not show textless cards, and then select 'View' -> 'Total Set Value' to get the value.  Just note that Deckbox values aren't great.  But, as you said, you'll have your inventory available as a CSV, so you can get a more accurate estimate of card value elsewhere.

Okay. As soon as I entered one card, I think I see a problem with my plan heh

I picked up a deck. Sorted it. Went to input it. But it looks like there isn't any way to enter the deck, and in doing so add it to my inventory. If I just put in the deck, it just warns me I don't have the cards to make the deck. I can tell it that the cards have to be in my inventory, but that's kind of the opposite of what I want.

Am I missing some way to simultaneously add a deck and add the cards in it to my inventory? It'll be a drag if I basically have to enter all my decks twice.

EDIT: I think I found it. There were multiple interfaces to add cards to a deck, and I think I just found one that will let me add to the deck and my inventory. It is a premium feature, but I think I was going to end up needing a premium membership anyway.

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2 Topic by djp1968

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Hi everyone!
I have a pretty extensive collection. Wild guess would be 30,000 cards or so. I'm preparing to bite the bullet and inventory what I actually have, and I'd like to do it in a way that helps me track the value of the collection. A quick search online brought me to deckbox. So far so good.

Right now, my collection is in the shape of:
- 20 or so decks I've constructed
- A few binders or small boxes of scattered cards
- A bunch of boxes of cards sorted by edition, color, alphabetical order

Having poked around here a bit, my guess is that the most efficient way to catalog this would be:
1. Enter the decks I have constructed. Those are gonna be a bit painful, because they mix all sorts of editions and are not sorted in any way. Oh well. But I'll get the fringe benefit that I can also see/share my constructed decks.
2. The binders and mixed boxes will be similarly painful. Serves me right.
3. Since the vast majority of the cards are then sorted by set, color, alphabetical order, I'm hoping there is a relatively painless way to do that. It seems like maybe deckbox provides a handy interface for doing this, but it is a premium feature. Is that correct? It will show me all the cards in a set, and let me walk down the set just entering how many of each card I have?

Other questions:
- Some of my built decks contain proxies. I think I gather from another post here that there isn't any clean way to designate that. I could leave them out, but then my deck listings would be inaccurate. I could include them, but then my inventory/value would be inaccurate. I think the best I could do now is to include them, but make those distinctive somehow; specify they have a quality of Poor, are signed, or something else that would make it easy to find them. Yeah?
- Once I have all this entered, in like 7 years heh, I'm not sure what I'll end up doing with the completed inventory. It looks like I can easily export the full listing into a spreadsheet as needed. Right?

Thanks in advance!

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