Paul_K wrote:Such a treasure that card catalog you have! I love unique items like that.

Thanks Paul! It definitely makes cataloging easier. I hate to say that I'm about to fill it up already though. But I guess that's a good problem to have!

The real treasure though, I must say, is my wife! I simply mentioned it once that it would be great to have an old library style card catalog cabinet to store my cards in and she took it upon herself to go on Craigslist and find one. She drove an hour and a half to pick it up and gave it to me in 2011 for Christmas. Yeah, she's definitely a keeper! :D

Wow this is going to take forever. I recently organized my collection and realized just how many unique cards I have due to playing mostly Commander and trading off unneeded duplicates.

holydeg wrote:My sort order is:
Color
Type
Converted Mana Cost
Name
Edition

I was wondering.... how do you sort your multicolor cards?
You just have a separate "Color" category for each color combination?

Took me about two hours.

I've had it sorted by set (except basic lands [separate section with all of them] and older cards reprinted for Standard [Combined area for all of them]), then color and type.

I tend not to trade very often, so far it was a current Serra's Angel for one of the really old art and I'm wanting to trade another for a 7th/8th art one just because I like the card so there isn't really that much for me in sorting by rarity[/Combined area for all of them][/separate section with all of them]

I started in October 2011 and I'd say it took us the better part of an entire year to get completely caught up.

We were NOT diligently working on it, more like a night or two every few weekends. And we'd do quite a spurt whenever we got new cards. AND we were sorting and alphabetizing at the same time (which we did once, and then changed our system so we had to do it all over again and THEN we had a Magic closet catastrophe and had to do it ALL OVER a third time because boxes and boxes and boxes of cards dumped on the floor = BAD.)

Our current inventory is 55k+ cards and the new rule is NOTHING goes downstairs to the Magic cave until it's been "deckbox'd". Once it's done, keeping up is far easier and having this inventory tool that we can both access from our phones or iPads at any time has been SO awesome!

Leashah wrote:I started in October 2011 and I'd say it took us the better part of an entire year to get completely caught up.

We were NOT diligently working on it, more like a night or two every few weekends. And we'd do quite a spurt whenever we got new cards. AND we were sorting and alphabetizing at the same time (which we did once, and then changed our system so we had to do it all over again and THEN we had a Magic closet catastrophe and had to do it ALL OVER a third time because boxes and boxes and boxes of cards dumped on the floor = BAD.)

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botondus wrote:I was wondering.... how do you sort your multicolor cards?
You just have a separate "Color" category for each color combination?

It's really a preference thing. For sets that are primarily mono-color (e.g., M12, M13), I put the multi-color cards in a single small subsection after all the color sections, but before colorless. In sets that have a strong multi-color focus (e.g. RTR, GTC), I put the multi-colored cards in their own sections and between the sections for the card colors (e.g., B - BR - R - RU - U - UW - W - WG - G - GB).

HikingStick wrote:

botondus wrote:I was wondering.... how do you sort your multicolor cards?
You just have a separate "Color" category for each color combination?

It's really a preference thing. For sets that are primarily mono-color (e.g., M12, M13), I put the multi-color cards in a single small subsection after all the color sections, but before colorless. In sets that have a strong multi-color focus (e.g. RTR, GTC), I put the multi-colored cards in their own sections and between the sections for the card colors (e.g., B - BR - R - RU - U - UW - W - WG - G - GB).

I like that Idea; putting the multi-color cards inbetween the mono's. Think I'll do that with my newer sets (standard, basically). I recently got back into magic after taking a hiatus since Kamigawa. All of my older cards are organized by color and then by creature vs non-creature. I think with the new sets I've collected I'll organize by set->color->alphabetical.

have any of you hit that point while cataloging cards where you basically have to stop and wonder when you got so many cards? Or for those of you like myself who haven't been playing for very long or at least had a long hiatus in there, wondering when you got so many older cards?

I also find myself having a lot of single cards, but i think that's more to do with my being a mostly EDH player and not seeing a point in keeping a bunch of duplicates.

I have spent about 3 hours a day and I am on day 4 now and I am still not done. Takes awhile but I enjoy doing that sort of thing. Plus once it's done, as long as you keep it up to date as you go along then you don't have to invest too much more time into it.

It took me an entire day, but I'm constantly updating it. Updating takes me an entire day once or twice a week.

Found a few gems I wasn't aware of in the process though lol. The things you forget you have when you don't pay attention.





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I made a new Android app that scans MTG cards (you don't have to type the cards name, you use the camera), after you can export the list and import it in your deckbox.org account! I think this will help to catalog cards faster or keep the database up to date. You can get it from Google Play store or to see it without installing it, there is a demo video . Also I've made a new topic about the app in General Discussion :)

unimatrix088 wrote:I made a new Android app that scans MTG cards (you don't have to type the cards name, you use the camera), after you can export the list and import it in your deckbox.org account! I think this will help to catalog cards faster or keep the database up to date. You can get it from Google Play store or to see it without installing it, there is a demo video . Also I've made a new topic about the app in General Discussion :)

Definitly a useful app, unfortunately I use an iphone instead of an android, so all I can do is hope you plan on making an iPhone version in the future. I know I would use it.

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unimatrix088 wrote:I made a new Android app that scans MTG cards (you don't have to type the cards name, you use the camera), after you can export the list and import it in your deckbox.org account! I think this will help to catalog cards faster or keep the database up to date. You can get it from Google Play store or to see it without installing it, there is a demo video . Also I've made a new topic about the app in General Discussion :)

Definitly a useful app, unfortunately I use an iphone instead of an android, so all I can do is hope you plan on making an iPhone version in the future. I know I would use it.

For iPhone there are at least two apps, iMTG and Cardsplice.

It has taken me around 13 hours so far and still have around 5000 or so to go.
I take my time doing it while I watch TV.

It's taking me a few hours each day all week (have to work and sleep after all). But here is the best process for my cards (I have good amount, 5 long boxes with 3 rows each). I sorted all the cards by set, then color, then rarity, then in alphabetical order. THen Copied and pasted the card list into a MS word file. Then just went down the line, counting each card and putting that number next to each card. Then I just copied and pasted that list per set and pasted it with the import card list and set the defaults per list. Seems to be the most efficient way to do this for large sets.

I'm about halfway done so far, about 3-5 hours worth of work so far. Most of the time is sorting out duplicates. I love this site as inventory is a breeze if you're a fast typer. This app is really helping my bulk collection stand out. Now I can send a list to anyone of what I have. Totally helps retain your collections value

I only catalogued my rares and the cards I'm putting in the decks I'm building. I don't see an advantage to loading page upon page of commons- I have 6000, first of all, and really, I won't look through someone's tradelist of they list their commons as well. However, I will look through those who simply post the good cards.