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I just started buying Magic cards again last month (saw the 2015 Core deckbuilder set at Target for a good price, impulse bought it, bought a handful of boosters since and some other odds and ends). Also pulled out my old cards from previous IC drafts and eBay purchases. I keep running into the same problem that I always have though.... my real life friends in this area are few and far between, plus the one or two that actually play MtG work very different schedules than I now do. I put together what I think will be a fun little standard deck, but I have no one to test it against. Oh well.

Anyone have tips for organizing the cards to make them more easy to build with? I don't have a whole lot of them at this point, but I figure keeping them organized in a sane system from the start would be best in case I get really into MtG this time.

Obvisouly you want to split them by color, and if you can, by creatures /instants/ sorce/ enchant/ etc.
Have your rares sorted the same way but appart from the common.
And then for me, building deck is usually looking at rares and trying to find somthing to do with one of them. Or thinking of a combo or wtv theme i feel like doing for a deck (i love tribal decks. Like i made a spider deck, just cause i could)
Inspiration for drck building can come from anywhere!
Just dont be disapointed if the deck is not as good as you wish...

Two weeks ago, a thought got stuck in my head: What if I dug out my Magic cards and tinkered with them? It's been probably 5 years since I played regularly, and more than a decade since I paid serious attention to my full collection.

I've realized I don't really have offline hobbies, unless you consider fixing & cleaning ICHQ a hobby. So when I found some random, idle things to do 2 weeks ago, it reminded me I actually really like staying the hell away from my laptop for days at a time if I have something to occupy me.

I gave in and started carrying the boxes down from the attic and stacked them in the hallway upstairs (and wiped off a layer of grime, blech). A week went by while I resolved the stalemate: back to the attic, or downstairs? Finally, down they came to the Pub and my work began.

My cards. Mortin's cards. Spencer's cards. All mish-mashed and packed separately. I probably spent 6 hours on Saturday sorting them, getting them ready to merge. When you have ~30,000 cards, it's no small task to put them all in findable order.

I bought a couple Duel Decks and @CannonFodder‌ & I played last night. I separated my cards from 2010 on (about 2,500) for a "fair" set to make casual decks from. I bought a box for my Commander deck. I plotted a possible drafting event for Expo this year. And so on and so on.

I find that when I start talking about Magic, folks start coming out of the woodwork. Folks who don't want to spend a bunch of money on it or spend days building tournament-level decks, but who enjoy playing. So I'm gonna work on that a little bit: keeping some Duel decks available at ICHQ; having a few ready-made Commander decks on hand; saving the packs I buy to draft with anyone who wants to join; that sort of thing. And maybe those 30,000 cards can see some use as an Icrontic Card Library.

Well, I had this game running on my work laptop. Now that I don't have the laptop, I feel so free.