Collecting

How do you arrange playsets of 4 cards in binders? Annoyingly the most natural binder size is 3x3 pockets, so you're forced to compromise one way or another.

Some options:

• Big 4x4 binder
• Small 2x2 binder
• Tall 2x4 sideways pocket binder
• Multiple cards in one pocket
• Creative layouts
• Only play singleton formats

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It would be interesting to hear how people choose what cards to keep in their collections (or choose to hunt down).

Some speculative ideas from someone just getting into magic. Feel free to comment on any of them or add your own thoughts.

1. Gameplay utility, just being a good card in some format or another
2. Being a fun card to play, having some amusing qualities for kitchen table play
3. Monetary value
4. Art, cards with art that appeals to you
5. Artist, cards with art done by a certain artist
6. Theme, maybe you're trying to collect all cards with airships on them, or with a particular mechanic
7. Type, all rat creature cards will be mine
8. Completing a set, collecting all cards from a particular set

What kinds of software tools are you using with your card collections?

• Do you keep tabs on your cards in some digital archive?
• Wishlists?
• Something else still?

Extra points for being open source.

Commander Masters releases on August 4, 2023 and contains 130 commons, 135 uncommons, 135 rares, and 35 mythic rares. Of the rares and mythic rares, 53 of the rares and 15 of the mythic rares are legendary.

Special variations include 12 borderless "frame break" cards; 46 regular borderless cards; 10 textured foils; foil-etched versions for all rares and mythics; 25 extended art cards; and retro frame basics from Alayna Danner, Rebecca Guay, and Mark Poole!