This is a project I've been working on for some time. Simply stated, it is the integration of all of my EDH decks in one box, sectioned off in such a way that I am able to build a great number of them very quickly by combining the appropriate sections. There are further branches which allow for other decks to be built somewhat less quickly, requiring certain cards to be selectively taken from particular sections. Further still, there are a number of theoretical decks whose constituent parts exist within the box, but they are scattered throughout the sections and require much more time to assemble.
This minimalistic spirit of The Box was greatly inspired by an idea which occurred to my brother--his intention was to create a cube for EDH, allowing up to 4 players to each create an impromptu deck from a variety of different commanders. This is my personal variation of that idea. One Box which allows me to build over a dozen decks with just over 400 cards.
Further elucidation shall be forthcoming, fellow planeswalkers! I'll be adding sections for the first, second, and third string decklists. In the mean time, you may be able to see what decks can be built from the sections above.
The Big Three which were the beginning of the Integration are:
Hazezon Tamar
Horde of Notions
Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Horde is the only deck which can be made purely by selecting sections.
I've started a similar project, with an endstate of being able to maintain six decks at one time. The cost of that many matching sleeves will be an issue, but not insurmountable.
My reasoning is that while I like to build decks, I rarely get to play them, so maintaining a stable of 30+ decks not only eats up storage space, it prevents me from trading off redundant cards - cards that could become something useful. PucaTrade is helping me out in this regard.
My Red is done and sleeved, as I have always had some form of Monored deck. Its about 200 cards strong, so extrapolating from there, I should end up with about 2000 cards all told in my box, including enough basics for monocolored decks.
When all is said and done, my four shelves of card boxes should be down to one, but that is still some time off.
Good luck!
Cheers!
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Thanks, krichaiushii. The consonlidation of my collection was definitely a powerful motivator for constructing The Box. I already traded a Mayael the Anima deck and Heartless Hidetsugu deck(enjoy the Gauntlet of Might, Rob) to a friend of mine for some Underground Seas a Tropical Island, fetches and a few other things. And Pucatrade is in the near future. That site is an amazing way of trading up on bulk stuff.
Mostly it's just really nice being able to build my favorite decks without having to keep thousands of cards.
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This minimalistic spirit of The Box was greatly inspired by an idea which occurred to my brother--his intention was to create a cube for EDH, allowing up to 4 players to each create an impromptu deck from a variety of different commanders. This is my personal variation of that idea. One Box which allows me to build over a dozen decks with just over 400 cards.
The Big Three which were the beginning of the Integration are:
Hazezon Tamar
Horde of Notions
Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Horde is the only deck which can be made purely by selecting sections.
Like so:
My reasoning is that while I like to build decks, I rarely get to play them, so maintaining a stable of 30+ decks not only eats up storage space, it prevents me from trading off redundant cards - cards that could become something useful. PucaTrade is helping me out in this regard.
My Red is done and sleeved, as I have always had some form of Monored deck. Its about 200 cards strong, so extrapolating from there, I should end up with about 2000 cards all told in my box, including enough basics for monocolored decks.
When all is said and done, my four shelves of card boxes should be down to one, but that is still some time off.
Good luck!
Cheers!
Krichaiushii on PucaTrade.
Mostly it's just really nice being able to build my favorite decks without having to keep thousands of cards.