How do you store your Magic Colllection?

[Giants1990]

I have a binder for each color. Lands and artifacts share a binder. Playsets are penny sleeved and put into a pocket. Common/ uncommon sets are in 3200ct boxes, again each playset goes into a penny sleeve. Binders work great as it's only me who looks through them since I don't trade. I inventory everything on deckbox.org so I have a rough idea of the value for insurance purposes.

[r3dd09]

I currently have blinders for standard, modern, legacy, etc. I also have boxes of semi junk rares (edh jank) and deck boxes/boxes with cards in them. I'm in the process of buying some collections, so I'm going to organize and catalog everything.

Might go the route of playsets in penny sleeves in 800 count boxes, but I love my 4 pocket binders...

[barcode]

I currently have blinders for standard, modern, legacy, etc. I also have boxes of semi junk rares (edh jank) and deck boxes/boxes with cards in them. I'm in the process of buying some collections, so I'm going to organize and catalog everything.

Might go the route of playsets in penny sleeves in 800 count boxes, but I love my 4 pocket binders...

You can still use the binders to store excess cards, that's the best part. Existing storage infrastructure is still useful.

[Que]

Thanks for the insight. It really seems like preference from where I'm standing. Everyone seems to have a system that works for them. But there are a lot of great ideas I can use as far as storing my own collection!

[GnuHouse]

Holiday Gift Box for playables. My collection is more current, so I have a row for Standard, and a row for Modern/Legacy. Third row is fancier basic land (Unglued, Zendikar, etc), foreign cards, and stuff I hoard (Supply//Demand, Korean BB Dark Rituals). Each row is sorted BUGRW, Multicoloured, Artifacts, and land. Nothing in the box worth more than a couple of dollars, unless I want to keep them in which case they get sleeved in Perfect Fits and stored in the box.

For bigger stuff they go into the binders. I'm running three Ultra Pro binders at the moment. One is Standard, sorted according to rotating blocks (so M13-INN-DKA-AVR and M14-RTR-GTC-DGM), with more valuable stuff near the front of the section and the chaff afterwards. Modern and Legacy is another, with no real sorting system other than fetchlands near the front. This will likely get split come September as I'll need to make room for the rotating stuff, so Legacy will get its own binder again. Third binder is promo cards, foreign stuff, etc. Sorted according to type, so different types of promos (FNM, GP, MPR, Game Day) are all together. I also run a smaller (4 card/page) binder for stuff like non-basic land that I use often.

As for cataloging, I've got iMTG on my phone. I use that to inventory my binders, as well as keep track of what I'm looking for. If I'm in one of my trading periods it can be a bit of a pain to keep up to date. However, it does hook up with TCGPlayer so I can keep track of value pretty easily

[apple713]

Anyone have opinions on the Monster binders vs the sideloading ultra pro's?

[Admiral_Arzar]

I have a couple of large binders that I use to store rares and other expensive cards (sorted by color, CMC, and alphabetically). The uncommons, commons, and lands each have their own large box with varying degrees of organization. I would honestly prefer to have everything in binders, but I would need to buy several more large binders and literally hundreds of 9-card pages. Yeah, binders aren't necessarily the safest way to store things, but the binders of staples never actually leave my house so there aren't really any issues there. I have a much smaller binder for trades that I carry around.

[GoblinSettler]

Anyone have opinions on the Monster binders vs the sideloading ultra pro's?

Monster binders feel sturdier. Pockets can be tight for sleeved cards. The hologram finish may be desirable or not.

Ultra Pro binders cost less money. Pockets are designed to hold cards in sleeves and there's plenty of room for that. Naked cards can slide out if you are flipping through with abandon. The elastic strap that keeps the binder closed may be desirable for binders that travel about.