How To Organize Your Collection
Card Organization
This question comes up frequently and there are a variety of preferences, however they broadly fall into two categories.
- Sort your collection by Precon
- This is good for players who store their collection in binders as it means you don't have to rearrange cards each time a new expansion comes out.
- This is the recommended way for players of the Red Rains solo/coop mode, especially if you intend to play the campaign.
- Con: You need to know which release a card is from when you want to include.
- Con: You cannot find and compare types of cards when building a deck as they are spread across precons.
- Sort your collection by card type and alphabetically
- This matches how Ashes.live organizes cards and is very conducive to deck-building.
- Con: Take a long time (full collection) to sort initially, and you have to maintain it.
- Con: Not good for pick up and play with friends/new players, or Red Rains play.
- Sort to play Draft: 1 copy of every non-Phoenixborn card then by one of the above methods
- This is only if you're playing exclusively in person without building decks ahead of time.
- Con: It requires a lot of clean up since you have to put all of the cards away after each game
- Con: Draft encourages more randomness so combos are harder to make happen
- Con: All players need to already be familiar with the cards, especially which ones are generally good and which ones are less efficient.
- Sort your collection by dice types
- This is helpful after choosing dice types for a deck to easily see what other cards can be used
- Con: Figuring out where to put cards with different dice type costs is a riddle as old as the Master Set itself.
Storage Solutions
- Master Set Box
- At the time of writing, all cards can fit in the master/core box. If you sleeve all your cards, all cards except the conjurations should be able to fit. Conjurations can then be kept in a deluxe expansion box.
- There are custom dividers available on Go7Gaming, Etsy, or other manufacturers for the master and deluxe expansion boxes
- Binders
- Binders are most often recommended for players who sort by precon, as that is a sorting method that does not require rearranging cards within the binders
- Gamegenic Dungeon 1100+
- The Gamegenic Dungeon is a popular option for storing a complete collection
- As of the February 2023, it can comfortably hold a complete collection that is single-sleeved, with room to likely support some upcoming expansions
- Dice and tokens can be stored in empty space to the side of the cards
Pictured above: a single-sleeved collection of all cards prior to the Time cycle stored in a Go7Gaming LGC-006 insert. After the Time cycle arrived, I moved the Phoenixborn cards and Time dice to a similar insert from Etsy designed for the deluxe expansion boxes.
Pictured above: A full collection of Ashes Reborn as of February 2023, single-sleeved in Dragon Shield matte sleeves, stored in a Gamegenic Dungeon 1100+, with dice, tokens, and reference cards stored to side of the cards
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