So I was doing some cleaning around my room and only now noticed how much Magic related junk I've allowed to accumulate over time. I've filled two shoeboxes of just toploaders of cards I've ordered over the last year or two. I saved a few of the nicer boxes from the last few pre-releases (the Shadows over Innistrad satchels are really damn cool), and I have enough random mismatched sleeves that they can probably sleeve a few decks. I think the top loaders and the cardboard from the prerelease boxes are recyclable but not sure if I should just toss the mismatched sleeves in the trash. I have so many extra token cards that commons that I'm almost debating just tossing some of them into recycling along with the newspapers.
Anyway, with all the product that comes with our cards, how do you all deal with the waste? Do you repurpose some of the things or does most of it just go in the trash?
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
sleeves and toploaders are saved for selling on ebay and trading.
some sleeves are used for expensive cards in my binders.
most boxes are either tossed out or given away.
tokens are good for proxies, or to trade on pucatrade.
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pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
I have a shoebox I keep extra sleeves in, or sleeves in decent shape I've retired because others became unusable, these are repurposed as draft sleeves or for trades.
Boxes I use as spacers in 1000 count long boxes that, say, only have 600 cards in them. I drop all uncommons/commons from a given set into 1k boxes and label them accordingly. The boxes fill in the extra space and keep cards from sliding around inside the box.
Tokens get dumped into their own token box. If I ever need a token, I can usually find a cool one in there as I've been accumulating them for quite some time.
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If you don't sell a lot you can give your extra random sleeves to your local stores. Keeps us from having to spend money on sleeves to put cards on display for sale. Same with the top loaders. I try to keep my stuff sorted extremely well so I don't have to deal with big pile ups of extra stuff.
As a messy and rather unorganized person, Magic was a kind of weird hobby for me to pick up. Sure my traders and expensive card binders are organized and managed. But I have cards on every flat surface, multiple shoe boxes full of commons and uncommons under my bed, sleeves and tokens all over. Its pretty bad, and I am paranoid to throw stuff away cause there might be some money cards hiding among the piles.
On topic, start giving stuff to new players. I had probably close to 10 basic land packs from fat packs that I give away to people.
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The worst is when wieners (deck of cards) comes in packs of 12 (60), and the hot dog buns (sleeves) come in packs of 8 (50). That means I have to buy 2 packs of hot dog buns (sleeves) and have 4 hot dog buns (40 sleeves) left over.
At least you can eat the hot dog bun by itself without the wiener, but a sleeve is useless unless it is sleeving a card. You can't even eat card sleeves for sustenance.
The worst is when wieners (deck of cards) comes in packs of 12 (60), and the hot dog buns (sleeves) come in packs of 8 (50). That means I have to buy 2 packs of hot dog buns (sleeves) and have 4 hot dog buns (40 sleeves) left over.
At least you can eat the hot dog bun by itself without the wiener, but a sleeve is useless unless it is sleeving a card. You can't even eat card sleeves for sustenance.
A lot of people always cite this. But it's an argument that eventially falls apart because you can't win with the sleeves no matter what.
Let's look at it another way.
Let's assume sleeves are always sold in packs of 60. No problem right?
A competitive deck is 75 cards, not 60. It's 60 cards with a 15 card sideboard. Thusly, 2x60 results in 45 sleeves wasted.
EDH results in 20 sleeves wasted, 10 if a sideboard is used.
DSC screw things up. I prefer to use all clears for my DSC and checklist or proxies in deck. Any number of sleeves can potentially be wasted since I bought both backed and all clear sleeves.
And the worst... a damaged sleeve. Imagine you split a sleeve very early in the sleeves life or it become marked and you have to replace it.
MtG isn't the only game out there either. My Little Pony decks consist of 45 card play decks, 10 card "problem" deck, 2 "counter" cards (found in Starters) and a DSC Commander Friend. According to my six year old, said cards MUST be sleeved in 45 pinks, 10 blacks, 2 greens and a clear. (I have spares in all but pink so it's not a big deal). Practically sleeving the deck without the whims of a six year old would result in 57 backed and a clear. 59 if the DSC is doubled. Better...
Force of Will is a 40 card minimum. (I don't play it so I know very little about it. The card art is really slick.)
There'll be waste no matter how you slice it really. But, asothers have mentioned, gamers figured how to reduce the waste.
Always buy the same color... black.
Left over sleeves can be used to sleeve the more expensive cards in your sell/trade binder. Especially for those sleeves that are retired. It shows you care enough by not throwing foil cards in your binder only to have grit scratch them.
Sleeve your test deck. As long as you're honest with yourself and don't treat the backs as marked.
There is no perfect solution except forcing every game and every deck to always be in the same multiples as how sleeves are sold with the hope that sleeves will never be marked or get damaged. In our imperfect world, there is always a small amount of waste and we just have to recognize and accept that.
Anyway, with all the product that comes with our cards, how do you all deal with the waste? Do you repurpose some of the things or does most of it just go in the trash?
How do you only have one drawer of MTG stuff?
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Yeah, they look like solved puzzle or a tetris XD, if i dont put them in the right order i cant close them hahahah
some sleeves are used for expensive cards in my binders.
most boxes are either tossed out or given away.
tokens are good for proxies, or to trade on pucatrade.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Boxes I use as spacers in 1000 count long boxes that, say, only have 600 cards in them. I drop all uncommons/commons from a given set into 1k boxes and label them accordingly. The boxes fill in the extra space and keep cards from sliding around inside the box.
Tokens get dumped into their own token box. If I ever need a token, I can usually find a cool one in there as I've been accumulating them for quite some time.
EDH: Grand Arbiter $tax, Freyalise Stompy, Mimeoplasm Death From the Grave
On topic, start giving stuff to new players. I had probably close to 10 basic land packs from fat packs that I give away to people.
Decks
Modern
BGR Jund RGB
BW Eldrazi and Taxes WB
BWGAbzan Company GWB
Mtgo Modern
G Company Elves G
At least you can eat the hot dog bun by itself without the wiener, but a sleeve is useless unless it is sleeving a card. You can't even eat card sleeves for sustenance.
A lot of people always cite this. But it's an argument that eventially falls apart because you can't win with the sleeves no matter what.
Let's look at it another way.
Let's assume sleeves are always sold in packs of 60. No problem right?
A competitive deck is 75 cards, not 60. It's 60 cards with a 15 card sideboard. Thusly, 2x60 results in 45 sleeves wasted.
EDH results in 20 sleeves wasted, 10 if a sideboard is used.
DSC screw things up. I prefer to use all clears for my DSC and checklist or proxies in deck. Any number of sleeves can potentially be wasted since I bought both backed and all clear sleeves.
And the worst... a damaged sleeve. Imagine you split a sleeve very early in the sleeves life or it become marked and you have to replace it.
MtG isn't the only game out there either. My Little Pony decks consist of 45 card play decks, 10 card "problem" deck, 2 "counter" cards (found in Starters) and a DSC
CommanderFriend. According to my six year old, said cards MUST be sleeved in 45 pinks, 10 blacks, 2 greens and a clear. (I have spares in all but pink so it's not a big deal). Practically sleeving the deck without the whims of a six year old would result in 57 backed and a clear. 59 if the DSC is doubled. Better...Force of Will is a 40 card minimum. (I don't play it so I know very little about it. The card art is really slick.)
There'll be waste no matter how you slice it really. But, asothers have mentioned, gamers figured how to reduce the waste.
Always buy the same color... black.
Left over sleeves can be used to sleeve the more expensive cards in your sell/trade binder. Especially for those sleeves that are retired. It shows you care enough by not throwing foil cards in your binder only to have grit scratch them.
Sleeve your test deck. As long as you're honest with yourself and don't treat the backs as marked.
There is no perfect solution except forcing every game and every deck to always be in the same multiples as how sleeves are sold with the hope that sleeves will never be marked or get damaged. In our imperfect world, there is always a small amount of waste and we just have to recognize and accept that.