I've now got mine as follows:
Binder 1: All T2 and Extended stuff, good stuff and junk - because you never know.
Binder 2: All hot stuff in MTG (shock lands, sol ring, foils)
Binder 3: All Vintage/Legacy junk
I bring Binder 1 and 2, show 1 first then 2 if nothing interests them.
I leave Binder 3 at home. I plan on finding fellow casual players online who would be interested in the stuff in Binder 3.
I bring Legacy staples along, just in case, because the Legacy community in my old city started growing rapidly about a year after I moved there, and stayed strong. Here it's still in its infancy, but a few people are "onto" Legacy and I've made some decent trades.
I sort all my cards by colour.
because of Eventide, I had to change it. However, it was not too hard.
Sort your cards by solid colour first.
Take all the cards (lets start with black) that have black on the right hand side. Put those on the left of the black pile of cards. Do the same for black on the left hand side.
When you come to green, Ignore the black-green cards and just put the green-X cards on the right/left hand side.
Red, ignore Black-red and other combos that have already been used.
Artifacts and uncommon+ lands in front of binder. Holos in the centre of their respective colours. Like in the middle of the 9 pocket pages.
I think this method works but it mixes up T1 and T2 cards... Not so cool for t1/t2 traders but ok for colour traders.
I sort by color only. If they have to look through all the cards of a specific color to find the ones they want, all the better for me. Browsing helps deals get done. Also, I hate having to reorganize all the time, so by set means a lot of work after trading is done or packs are opened.
Some might say putting things in your binder helter-skelter makes people browse longer, thus increasing the chances something will appeal to them. Making it all organized and straightforward means the other guy can just flip to the pages with what he wants, and not see the other things which might help boost a trade.
I disagree with the walmart aproach. If I'm looking through a big binder full of crap I tend to just ask the guy "got any PW?" or something like that. I've basically quit looking at his binder. Sometimes if I find a guy with a pile of junk rares I'll offer to buy the binder for cash. Of course it's a lot less now, like $1 a page, but you'd be surprised when there are hot M10 packs in the store a quick trip to my car can turn that binder into cash.
(Ironically most people won't trade for packs, but will trade for cash then go in the store and buy packs?!!?!?).
I used to organize my binder as follows:
Highly tradeable Foil
Fluff Foil for throw ins
Vintage/Legacy Staples
High Trade/High Dollar Standard/Extended
Medium Movers Standard/Extended
Tradable Uncommon Playsets
I went to the M10 pre-release with a little different setup.
$10+
$5+
$2+
$1
$0.50
It was mainly so my wife could trade while I drafted, but I don't think it worked quite the way I wanted it to. I've also quit throwing foils in on trades. I had a $30 foil merchant scroll in my binder for 2 years and nobody wanted it. I moved it to the $10+ section and it was the first thing I traded.
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1) A small binder with Standard legal cards sorted by color. I have found many players who only want to trade for Standard-legal cards.
2) A big binder with all other rares sorted by color & roughly by block. After the rares, the big folder also has all non-rare foils (sorted by set) and uncommon lands, multicolor cards, & artifacts.
3) A binder containing rares that aren't for trade plus all COM/UNC cards from Standard legal sets that I am trying to collect a playset of (so I can quickly check through my cardpool after a draft for what I need).
4) I have binders of older commons & uncommons that I think might be useful, sorted for easy access if I need them for a casual deck or whatnot.
I only bring the first 2 folders with me when I think I might be able to make some trades; the rest stay at home.
I also keep a sheet of specific cards I'm looking for because sometimes I forget, especially on the quantity (ex: do I need 2 Rugged Prairies or just 1?)
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I disagree with the walmart aproach. If I'm looking through a big binder full of crap I tend to just ask the guy "got any PW?" or something like that. I've basically quit looking at his binder. Sometimes if I find a guy with a pile of junk rares I'll offer to buy the binder for cash. Of course it's a lot less now, like $1 a page, but you'd be surprised when there are hot M10 packs in the store a quick trip to my car can turn that binder into cash.
yeh I have to agree with that. Alot of players in my area, and i guess in general too, have the 'magic eye'. They focus on pages with several stand out appealing cards and by pass the obvious junk pages. Since I think it can be said that most junk cards are easily recognizable, it doesn't really help your design value to randomly assort. If your trade partner spend more time on one appealing rare, he's spending more time on the rest of the cards on the page. So its definitely more space effective to have at least 1-2 appealing rares on one page, placed near the top, or at strategic locations on a page.
Btw, I think its probably true that people spend less time on browsing the bottom slots than the top slot and less top browsing the left side of the page than the right.
Binder 1: All T2 and Extended stuff, good stuff and junk - because you never know.
Binder 2: All hot stuff in MTG (shock lands, sol ring, foils)
Binder 3: All Vintage/Legacy junk
I bring Binder 1 and 2, show 1 first then 2 if nothing interests them.
I leave Binder 3 at home. I plan on finding fellow casual players online who would be interested in the stuff in Binder 3.
because of Eventide, I had to change it. However, it was not too hard.
Sort your cards by solid colour first.
Take all the cards (lets start with black) that have black on the right hand side. Put those on the left of the black pile of cards. Do the same for black on the left hand side.
When you come to green, Ignore the black-green cards and just put the green-X cards on the right/left hand side.
Red, ignore Black-red and other combos that have already been used.
Artifacts and uncommon+ lands in front of binder. Holos in the centre of their respective colours. Like in the middle of the 9 pocket pages.
I think this method works but it mixes up T1 and T2 cards... Not so cool for t1/t2 traders but ok for colour traders.
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I disagree with the walmart aproach. If I'm looking through a big binder full of crap I tend to just ask the guy "got any PW?" or something like that. I've basically quit looking at his binder. Sometimes if I find a guy with a pile of junk rares I'll offer to buy the binder for cash. Of course it's a lot less now, like $1 a page, but you'd be surprised when there are hot M10 packs in the store a quick trip to my car can turn that binder into cash.
(Ironically most people won't trade for packs, but will trade for cash then go in the store and buy packs?!!?!?).
I used to organize my binder as follows:
Highly tradeable Foil
Fluff Foil for throw ins
Vintage/Legacy Staples
High Trade/High Dollar Standard/Extended
Medium Movers Standard/Extended
Tradable Uncommon Playsets
I went to the M10 pre-release with a little different setup.
$10+
$5+
$2+
$1
$0.50
It was mainly so my wife could trade while I drafted, but I don't think it worked quite the way I wanted it to. I've also quit throwing foils in on trades. I had a $30 foil merchant scroll in my binder for 2 years and nobody wanted it. I moved it to the $10+ section and it was the first thing I traded.
1) A small binder with Standard legal cards sorted by color. I have found many players who only want to trade for Standard-legal cards.
2) A big binder with all other rares sorted by color & roughly by block. After the rares, the big folder also has all non-rare foils (sorted by set) and uncommon lands, multicolor cards, & artifacts.
3) A binder containing rares that aren't for trade plus all COM/UNC cards from Standard legal sets that I am trying to collect a playset of (so I can quickly check through my cardpool after a draft for what I need).
4) I have binders of older commons & uncommons that I think might be useful, sorted for easy access if I need them for a casual deck or whatnot.
I only bring the first 2 folders with me when I think I might be able to make some trades; the rest stay at home.
I also keep a sheet of specific cards I'm looking for because sometimes I forget, especially on the quantity (ex: do I need 2 Rugged Prairies or just 1?)
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yeh I have to agree with that. Alot of players in my area, and i guess in general too, have the 'magic eye'. They focus on pages with several stand out appealing cards and by pass the obvious junk pages. Since I think it can be said that most junk cards are easily recognizable, it doesn't really help your design value to randomly assort. If your trade partner spend more time on one appealing rare, he's spending more time on the rest of the cards on the page. So its definitely more space effective to have at least 1-2 appealing rares on one page, placed near the top, or at strategic locations on a page.
Btw, I think its probably true that people spend less time on browsing the bottom slots than the top slot and less top browsing the left side of the page than the right.
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