Postby Avistew » 15 Feb 2012, 22:58
Yeah, I would need to enter for each of them their name, type, subtype1, subtype2 (more if you can have 3 or more subtypes), cost, figure out a way to make cost sortable, colour of course, rarity, name of course as well, second colour come to think of it, and hell second name for flippable one, strength, toughness, rinse repeat for flippable ones, then the set/block and what it's legal for.
Only then, with the right program, could I get it to sort them by any of these for deck-buidling purposes. Although I'd also need to have a column for how many cards I have of each and how many are in use.
That's why I'd rather have a program that already knows the cards, so I only enter the name and number and I'm good to go. Then when I build a deck I make sure to enter it in there so it can keep track of how many cards are "free".
I have lots of cards. For Dark Ascension for instance we bought three boxes and now we have about 12-15 of each common, 8-10 of each uncommon, 1-5 of each rare and we had a bunch of doubles for the mythics, but we sold the mythics we had more than one of.
We also have about 20 of each of the common (non basic) lands and 2-5 of the rare ones.
About the same thing goes for Innistrad, except a portion of the cards are in French (I still sort them where the English one goes).
For previous Standard blocks we have less because we got them during drafts, but we still have a few hundreds or each colour. For non-stadard blocks we don't have much so that's less of a problem.
We have boxes to put them that are made for it, just need separators to indicate what is what. I'll probably make them when I'm done with the sorting. I sorted all of the DA cards in one day so it shouldn't be too long.
The mythics and foils are sorted separately in binders, and we also have decks that are mostly in deck boxes, some of them in the big boxes with all the cards (in different sleeves for each deck, although we probably should make label inserts too).
We do have an app to enter decks in, but it only works for decks, not to enter all of your cards, and you can't sort them in any other way than lands/creatures/sorceries/instants.
Which I guess is a category I forgot for the spreadsheet. I also haven't been taking it into account for the sorting, now I'm not sure if I should add that.
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