How To Organize Your Collection

This question comes up frequently and there are a variety of preferences, however they broadly fall into two categories.

1. 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.
2. Sort your collection by card type and alphabetically
   • This matches how Ashes.live organizes cards and is very conducive to deck-building.
   • 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.
   • There are custom dividers available on Etsy for the master and deluxe expansion boxes.
   • 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.