Hey Magic Players. (warning: proof of insanity within)

[gremcint]

IT'S DONE! finished last week. my wrist was killing me but it's done. sorted by collector's number then by set with dividers for colour typed from a label maker and mounted on foam board. It took several days of hours a day sorting.

[Zapper]

Magnificent.

[jedimaster91]

Wow. Just...wow. *thumbs up*

[AnaKhouri]

Wow, you'll have no trouble building decks like that. We're always digging through boxes and other decks to find stuff we need.

[Kittish]

Can I hire you to sort and catalog my collection? It's only about 10,000 cards.

[Thana]

-weeps at the beauty of the organization and the size of collection- I was so very dumb to have given up my magic deck when I stopped playing.

[Gravekeeper]

I have a box of these from like 16 years ago. I keep telling myself at some point I'll bother to sort them out and see what they're worth. But I don't even know where to start whenever I look at them. -.-

[gremcint]

Sorry but I won't be doing this again any time soon my wrist was sore for days afterwards and it took over a week.

[Jetfire]

Nice. My organization system is simpler.

I have 1 binder per set (Some of the older sets I've doubled up binders), and I sort it by card number in the set, in stacks of playsets (max 4 cards per sleeve of a 9-sheet).

Extra Foils and Rares go into my trader binder. Everything else (non-foil Commons, Uncommons) go into the big boxes, effectively unsorted.

Of course I'm a bit behind now, I did Theros's binder, but I've got a pile of packs since then, not to mention did some EDH deck building, so I have a pile of stuff to re-sort back into their books. I'll probably take a weekend in February, once I've gotten most of my Born of the Gods cards, and do another cleanup.

[gremcint]

Hello, ladies, look at your cards, now back to mine, now back at your cards, now back to mine. Sadly, they aren't sorted, but if you stopped using a lazy sorting method and switched to mine, your collection could look like mine. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re at a PTQ with the collections yours could look like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s two boosters of that set you love. Look again, the boosters are now mox diamonds. Anything is possible when your collection is sorted and not messy. I have horsemandship.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I wish I had the time to organize my cards...

or build new decks...

or read through the new cards I bought six months ago...

[Jetfire]

Hello, ladies, look at your cards, now back to mine, now back at your cards, now back to mine. Sadly, they aren't sorted, but if you stopped using a lazy sorting method and switched to mine, your collection could look like mine. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re at a PTQ with the collections yours could look like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s two boosters of that set you love. Look again, the boosters are now mox diamonds. Anything is possible when your collection is sorted and not messy. I have horsemandship.

LOL. Great job! Especially the horsemanship at the end.

[Antares]

I went through all mine and sold many of them many years ago. The only thing I kept of value was my Alpha Black Lotus and a signed Mirror Universe.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where they are anymore.