The CORRECT Way to Store Your Magic Cards in a Binder

How you store your Magic cards is CRUCIAL for protecting your collection and saving you money. Make sure you do it right!

This is true for all collectible cards like sports cards, Pokémon, YuGiOh, Flesh and Blood, etc.

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[TheSushiandme]

Thanks for the tip. Now I can store my 360 storm crows safely

[VinnieKielbasa]

Another thing about perfect fit-sleeving the cards before putting them into a binder is that there is a very subtle pattern on the pages. You can feel it when you run your finger on it, and I guess long exposure on an unsleeved card can potentially press into the surface and leave an almost unnoticeable pattern. I've remember purchasing a card from Italian Legends which was in a ridiculously high condition. It was gem mint from the front. But the back surface had some weird pattern when inspected under light. I thought that maybe it was a fake card, but it turns out that it was legit and it appears that it was likely stored in a premium binder for a while but without a sleeve.

[angelvalencia]

Made a boring but useful subject into a masterpiece of entertainment.

[lordbenji]

Gotta be careful with elastic bands on binders as well. I have started to see some bends on cards on the first pages at the spot where the band goes over.

[mtga]

Man, this was not only educational but very funny!

[markwayne]

03:13-03:32 is just excellent guidance with a perfect explanation of "how this could happen to you!" bravo.

[andrewvaillant]

I encase all my cards in thickened Jello for extra protection and FLAVOR!!!

[Breakstop]

I always get my Lego’s from Wal Mart for maximum Toyota Corollas, but sometimes I’ll go to the Lego store to get some additional Raphaels

[dks]

Great video! For a good trade binder i always recommend people the 'Ultimate Guard Zipfolio Xenoskin'. The binder is very very sturdy and closes with a zipper so that cards can't fall out no matter what. I can also just throw this binder in my bag and not worry about my cards getting harmed. 100% recommended!

[leebode]

Proper way to store expensive cards in your binder: Don't.

[TristanEason]

Lego Shoutout! Great advice as well! Nice editing.

[danielagomez]

thanks man im just starting to collect cards and this has been very helpful :D

[Zorbak]

Great video! I had just bought a binder with rings for my new collection, only to find everyone advise against it

[AlphaHoarder]

Nice video! Only thing I'd add is don't over-pack the binders. I find many include more pages than their binding can actually support (prob so they can charge more for it), so I only fill the first 75% or so until the pages aren't sitting parallel.

[tinnos]

Thank you my man, very helpful!
Cheers from Italy.

[penguinlust]

Yup. I took a long time off from the hobby and when I came back to it one of the first things I did was re-binder most of my collection. However, one frustrating thing was discovering while some ringless binders have higher capacity than others, they don't widen the spines to compensate. This matters when the vast majority of good ringless binders have a capacity of 360 (20 pages) while some sets have more than 360 cards. The option is either wider pages or more pages if you want to fit the whole set in a binder. Both approaches have their drawbacks.

[bjarnidagurkarlsson]

This video was so much more entertaining than I expected. Binder betrayal.

[culturegeekgaming]

thanks for the advices, and made it fast and super funny :)
it's a thing we can neglect, but yes, a collection can be worth a lot and still fragile
Even with my cheap and small collection, (innistrad, midnight hunt and crimson vow, nearly all of it, and a lots of common cards from a lot of editions) it would be bad to loose 50 to 100$ of value, just because of bad storage.
The portfolio with no ring binder at all looks like the safest option, for the most valuable ones

[Deadpoolhead]

Haha I’ve been doing this stuff myself just logically thinking about it and people have been telling me I’m doing too much. Like the whole ring thing I knew that was a mistake with my first binder I got and then I started spending $80 to get big fancy binders before realizing I could get decent binders for about $20 without any rings, pages that sideload and enough pages for any single set. I’ve always sleeved everything in perfect fit sleeves for the most part

[Hotcarl]

Liked the video before watching just for the shirt; great album. But good video too man