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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 4399630" data-attributes="member: 11">So I won a huge lot of cards from Mirage and Visions for cheap on eBay and took the opportunity in figuring out what I got and incorporating the new cards in my existing collection to organize them all - as they have been pretty scattered and out of any order since I had a Magic party 5 years or so ago when a bunch of people came over and all used my cards to make decks and then at the end of the night kind of threw them all in the box.It is taking forever!  It took most of yesterday evening just to do the green cards alone and figure out a system that worked for me, and then all this morning and so far this afternoon I have done all the white and black and am half way through red.Anyway, what method do you use for organizing your cards?  I have the rares in a binder and a separate box for uncommons and for very commonly used commons (i.e. make their way in most decks) like giant growth or dark ritual.The remaining commons (and the crappy uncommons) are all in one of those boxes with four rows.I keep the creatures separate from spells, each in alphabetical order.  My buddy keeps his creatures in order of power and toughness and the spells in order of casting cost (I think).  I don't think I can get that anal, especially since I usually have an idea of the name of the cards I am looking for, so alpha-order works fine for me.</blockquote>