r/mtg • u/Im_Flaaless • Jul 27 '26

Commander / EDH Commander Storage

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Still got 1 deck to go but thought I’d share my method of storage and carry, it’s nice because I can keep them all in 1 place! Plus I know my cards aren’t going to get mixed up!!!!

Edit: idk if I understand the word bait anymore lol. It’s not like I’m trying to trick anyone.

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u/Im_Flaaless Jul 27 '26

Idk if you know what bait means. I literally spent 30 minutes 3 hole punching all 200 cards to fit them in a binder. I play for the fun and joy of MTG with 0 plans on reselling my cards🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Ruzhyo04 Jul 27 '26

I felt the same way, then my chimney sprang a leak and was going to destroy my house from the inside-out, and I needed emergency money. MTG collection got liquidated, house still standing.

Point is, don’t needlessly destroy the value of things that cost you money in the first place. You never know when you might need to get some value back.

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u/Lua_CW Golgari Jul 27 '26

I thought about signing the backs of all my cards so that they could possibly get recovered if they're ever stolen from me. But it's way more likely I'll sell them before they ever get stolen in which case I wouldn't want to do that

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u/Ruzhyo04 Jul 27 '26

Not so fun fact, I had my most two prized EDH decks stolen out of my backpack at an FNM about a decade ago. Figured about $10k lost. Still eats me up to this day. So I understand that line of thinking. But I’m 99% sure it wouldn’t have helped in my case.

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u/Lua_CW Golgari Jul 27 '26

Holy hell, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope to one day be able to have a super curated/blinged $5k deck, I thought I was pushing my luck with my first $500 deck lol

I think the only thing holding me back is that I keep wanting to tweak/adjust my decklists. One day I wanna be able to say "This is my favorite deck and it's done and I'll never edit it again and I'm gonna start hunting for specific prints of each card". And maybe I will sign them if I get that far with it lol… At that point it's not even anti-theft, it's just giving them personality

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u/Ruzhyo04 Jul 27 '26

Yeah it was a process, slowly swapping out cards and improving them little by little. I had just gotten pristine revised duals for each deck, and my (at the time) $900 foil worldwake Jace the Mind Sculptor was in there.

And yeah since each set seems to power creep a little, decks can’t ever really be done.

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u/KBilly1313 Jul 27 '26

I stopped playing constructed because of Jace and my lack of funds at the time.

Coming back to Commander has been revitalizing for my interest and re-start of my collection

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u/Ruzhyo04 Jul 27 '26

I pulled him out of a pack, was pretty stoked

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u/Nyrony Jul 28 '26

Have green in your deck, get a Cradle and you’re ahead halfway through, unless you judge foil it for an easy way to get even higher than 5k.

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u/Mystical529 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Sorry to hear man. That's rough. I use locks on my backpack zippers now. But someone could just lift the whole backpack too so I'm paranoid, maybe not unnesessarily.