Topic: New to the site/how to inventory my collection
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!