How Zatu Bloggers store their Disney Lorcana Cards?
When I started playing my very first Trading Card Game I was mainly excited about opening Booster packs, getting new cards and planning how to best use them in a deck. The feeling of building-up a huge stack of great cards is amazing in particular when you decided to get into Disney Lorcana and your cards bring out your favourite Disney movies and characters. At one point, however, you may not be satisfied by just having a pile of cards hanging around on your desk and you may want (or need) to consider how to best store your cards.
As you may have read in a previous content, there are plenty of different way to organize your cards and your collection. None of them is perfect and the solution you choose is always dependent on what type of collection you have and how you want to use your cards. The time and money you need to invest in accessories should also be considered as well as the fact that Trading cards games are always evolving thus your approach may need to change every now and then. In Disney Lorcana, for example, the way my collection was planned was challenged first by the introduction of the double-Ink cards and, more recently, by the introduction of Set Rotation that limits the cards that can be used in Organized events that are not using the Unlimited format.
Overall, deciding how to store and organize your cards is not a simple decision in particular when you are making your first steps into this hobby. In order to give everyone some good examples, a few passionate Zatu Bloggers came together today to share their Disney Lorcana collection and their personal approach to keep their cards organized. Which one will be closer to you personal approach and fulfil all your TCG needs?
Sam de Smith – A Player’s Take on Disney Lorcana collection
I personally see myself as more of a Lorcana player than collector, and I find my card organisation reflects that. I’m a massive fan of the troves generally, but particularly for their utility in holding shiny cardboard.
In my collection, each ink gets its own trove. I dedicate half the trove to commons, and the other half to uncommon up to legendary, all sorted into their various rarities. Within rarity, I order the cards reverse numerically, then reverse alphabetically, i.e. 1 cost A at the back and 10 cost Z at the front. Yes, I have been told it’s weird. For their protection, I sleeve legendaries, and separate the different rarities using the dividers included included in the Trove.
Promos, Art Cards, and any Enchanted one are all kept in the Stitch Collector binder that was released as part of the Sail to the Azurite Sea set, as I love the way it shows off the complete art cards. It also adds an additional layer of protection for my most rare items, and it makes them easier to show to all my fellow players and collectors.
James Davis – The approach of a Collector and Semi-competitive Player
Anyone that collects trading cards knows how important storing your cards are to stop them getting damaged. Multiple layers of protection can stop accidents from ruining your favourite cards and I take my card storage very seriously! In Disney Lorcana there are now 9 different sets of cards, so keeping them organised is also essential to help you find the cards you need to build your decks. Here is how I store my cards:
1. Binders (Ultra Pro 9-pocket)
I have Ultra-Pro 360 card binders to store one of each of the base set cards of each Lorcana set. Currently this is using 6 binders, so the storage boxes are starting to fill up! In these binders each card is sleeved depending on their rarity: penny sleeves for common, uncommon and rares, silver for super rares, and gold for legendaries. This is purely for aesthetic purposes and just highlights the rarer cards in the set for me.
2. Lorcana Troves
For each of the Lorcana sets I buy a Trove as these are great storage boxes that are already themed towards the set. As a semi-competitive Lorcana player I try to own a playset of each cards which is 816 cards per set, and the troves can easily store this number. So I order the cards per colour using the dividers found in the troves, and then in alphabetical order rather than number order so I can find the cards I am looking for easier. I sleeve the super rare and legendary cards in silver and gold sleeves respectively, and any valuable or playable cards are sleeved in regular penny sleeves too.
3. Zipped Binder (Ultra Pro 9-Pocket Zipped)
In my zipped binder I store my more expensive cards, for an extra layer of protection. It holds my promo cards ordered by number, with gaps for any missing cards, and my Enchanted cards which are ordered by set. Each card in the binder is sleeved with a penny sleeve.
4. Lorcana Storage boxes and booster boxes
For all my excess commons and uncommons from opening far too many packs, I keep these in the new cardboard Lorcana storage boxes of each ink type (minus sapphire and steel). These are nice as they are official Lorcana products and soon will allow you to store your spare cards by type. By set 11 each of the colours will be represented, but for now I just put any unorganised cards in these boxes to sort at a later date. I also have 2 of each of the booster boxes to store spare cards by set.
Stefano Paravisi
Good binders can keep your Lorcana Collection tidy When my son and I started playing and collecting Lorcana, I decided I will try as much as possible to have a full playset (4 copies) of all cards for each set. Our main focus is to be able to make all the Decks we want to play, disregarding the format and to be able to make changes rapidly from one event to the other if needed. Deep down, I am also a completionist and I would have struggled to have only partial sets in my collection…
Considering the above, I took two important decisions since the very first Disney Lorcana set came out. First, I decided to sleeve all my cards with Perfect sleeve cards in order to make easier to move the cards from the binders to the Dragon Shield Standard sleeves I use during events. Double sleeving the decks also adds an additional layer of protection that came in handy a few times. As I love being able to see all my cards in the binders, I also decided that I will only use 16 pockets albums instead of the more commons 9-pockets ones. With these larger binders I can store 2 sleeved cards per pocket and six full play-set per page in a neat and very tidy structure.
My 16-pockets binders are actually the core of my storage strategy and I have one binder per Ink colour. Initially, I used to have one binder per Disney Lorcana set but I realized you often had to pick all binders in order to make your decks. Considering you can only use two Ink colours in your decks, I decided that organizing my cards basing on their Ink would make easier to make decks. This system works also with Dual-Ink cards as I store them basing on their first Ink colour and I made all binders easy to identify using custom made labels I put together and printed at home. Basing on the size of the sets, I picked a binder larger enough to hold a maximum of 6 sets per binder but, considering the rotation, I may move in the future to have only four sets per binder so I can move the rotated-out sets to a different shelf every year but we will see. And if you are wondering, the cards within a binder are then sorted by set and by their number with “Stitch – Little Trickster” safely stored in its Emerald folder and the hidden reprint of Bruno in the Amethyst one. I love these Easter eggs/Jokes but a tidy organization comes first for me.
On top of the binders with the cards we use to play Disney Lorcana, I have a binder of my promo, Enchanted and art cards divided by set and one with all the signed cards I managed to get through the events. I love collecting signed cards and the small poster that artist can sign for you and I found exciting storing them in their own binder.
Last but not least, I keep all my bulk of common and uncommon in the Disney Lorcana boxes you can get from the Organized Play kit and in the Trove. The Trove is an amazing product with a lot of value and it is one of the best options I found to keep your cards protected and organized at the same time.
Jonathan Rabin – A Trove-Heavy Approach to suit Deck Building
Set rotation has come and in my ears that screams ‘get yourself organised’. With ‘Fabled’ being a largely reprinted format Lorcana players everywhere are going to have their own way of organising their cards and storing them.
In my mind the question comes down to whether you consider yourself a ‘collector’, a ‘player’ or a mixture of the two. Personally, I am firmly in the ‘player’ category and building master sets and binders is not currently what I do, although I have binders for the first two sets.
Binders create an impressive way of storing and presenting, especially if completed. I have seen people get creative and decorate their binder covers either with homemade art or using custom made vinyl stickers, which have a fantastic aesthetic to them. In my life, binders are an additional cost that I don’t want and don’t give me the accessibility that I prefer when deck building – some people love it that way and if you do, then more power to you.
Over time, I have bought less product as I streamlined to the deck that I like to play (Sapphire – Steel for the win!). That doesn’t mean I haven’t acquired cards through tournaments and league packs and the occasional treats here and there, and I do still need somewhere to put them and I like to be able to get to cards that are playable easily. For me this is where the trove boxes have come in as my ideal storage.
My trove boxes are separated into two inks per box – sapphire and steel (favourite pairing), emerald and amethyst, and amber and ruby (my least considered pairing). Within each box I have divided them off just using old sleeves into 1 cost characters up to 9 and then into actions/items in the same vain. This gives me ease of access when building decks and swapping things in and out as well as being visually pleasing to have in the office where I play online.
All the cards that are currently in the core constructed format are in my troves (assuming I own them) but the more playable cards are in either penny sleeves or the deck sleeves (I only use one colour) so that when I’m testing I can easily chop and change or if I want to build something away from my favourite deck I can.
The rest of my cards I keep in a big cardboard TCG box and are sorted via set but I have cherry-picked the reprints and put them in my troves so that I can get access to them easily. As more and more set rotations come, this will be my process.
Troves do come with their down side in that they are limited on space and if you have a lot of cards, and as the core constructed set grows, then I’m liable to run out of room (but maybe that will be an excuse to buy more troves). Also, this doesn’t help for infinity format as not all cards are there and I will have to dive back into the big box to find some cards which for my limited space is not too bad.
