My cards are sorted in a completely different manner.
1) Artifacts (including those with colored mana in their casting costs) are sorted separately from artifact creatures, both are sorted alphabetically.
2) Colored cards (not including colored artifacts) are sorted by color, then by type (creature, sorcery, instant, enchantment, planeswalker), then alphabetically within those types.
3) Colorless cards (Eldrazi, Karn Liberated) are sorted by type and then alphabetically.
4) Multicolored cards are separated into color groupings (blue/green, white/green, black/red, blue/green/white, black/green/red, etc.), and then are sorted by type and then alphabetically.
5) Non-basic lands are sorted alphabetically.
6) Basic lands are sorted by type. Most wind up in general population, but foils, foreigns, alpha/beta/unlimited and full-arts are pulled out for use in EDH decks.
7) Silver-bordered cards are lumped together regardless of set and are, for the most part, unsorted.
This is a complicated scheme to maintain, but it allows me to search my collection quickly using limited criteria. If everything were just sorted alphabetically and by color, then it'd be very hard to find a card without knowing its name.