I actually knew someone who collected thousands of commons. He would buy commons off of people in bulk. For example, he once bought 500 random common cards from a store for $20. I thought it was weird, but I didn’t ask him why. However, things changed when I found out why he bought so many commons. I later learned that he used all of those commons cards as proxies by printing out the desired cards at Office Depot, cut them out of the paper one by one, and glued them onto the common cards. At this point, I asked him why he was doing that because it wasn’t like he could compete in a tournament with fake cards. When I asked, he told me that he prints out cards and creates proxy decks for kids to borrow who didn’t have their own decks when they came to play at the store. He said his family could never afford Yu-Gi-Oh cards growing up, and he didn’t want any kid to feel left out by being the only one without a deck. He spent his hard earned money on commons, printed pages of countless cards, sleeves, and deck boxes for each one of his decks. He also spent dozens of hours cutting and gluing all for the sake of letting other kids use them. He even taught each kid how to play the deck that they borrowed from him. This was actually recognized by the store and they held a special tournament where dozens of kids came in and played with his proxy decks for a grand prize. On top of that, the store gave him three booster boxes for free because he dedicated so much of his time and money for the sake of not letting a single kid be left out. Not all heroes wear capes or have crazy spiky hair.

"When you realize most of your cards are shit" Every TCG ever

For starters: Sort them by type: Spell, Trap, Vanilla Monster, Effect Monster, Extra Monster. That already makes it five times easier to manage.

I've spent so much on this game over the years...

My dad used to get a lot of these plastic containers that used to hold paper....at first I didn't know what to do with them but then I realize how tired I was looking for cards...or to be more precise I was tired of looking for a particular archetypes like Dragons, Warriors, Plants....etc. so what I did is I use one plastic container for every archetype..... so if I need a dragon card..... I no longer have to look through 25 tins...to find the Dragon I'm looking for. Of course the more popular rare cards or more meta-relevant cards I keep a binder.

Can you show us a tutorial on how you made that deck box out of commons?

Thank you for this! You just gave me some brilliant ideas to store my piling stash of commons lol great timing.

This was such a beautiful video lmao The end of this video describes my entire yugioh life

Excellent video, Yuginono. Back when I had a much more sizable collection (2009), organizing my commons, sucked. Especially, considering I also did a lot of trading with my locals. But it is worth putting in the time. The reason being that A) you can easily find what you're looking for and B) depending on formats certain cards will be valuable and being able to have them for use of trading can be all the worth it. Overall, thank you for doing this. I think newer players and the community in general can greatly benefit from stuff like this.

DUDE I love my commons, I LOVE COLLECTING COMMONS,

My wife does this. She will take a week and go through all our commons and divide them up by spell trap and master then she alphabetizes them.it makes finding commons so easy

I have way too many cards friends and I have collected ever since 2001. I don't play competitively but still get cards and keep tabs on what's going on. To organize this monstrosity of a collection, the roughly 4500 holo cards I deem worth keeping are organized by kind (Spells, then which icons, etc) in thick 900-card binders with labels placed on them with a sharpie writing over masking tape stuck to the sides. My tins of commons (and some rares) are the same. I've even asked for empty megatins in the past. Monsters go by kind first (Normal, Ritual, etc) then by Level, then by alphabetical order. And I go like that for everything. It takes me seconds to reach for anything I want at any time. Though I still don't keep everything. Getting new cards every once in a while means some crappy cards will be pulled, and I can end up with 15 copies of something I don't use from going to a sneak peek. I generally add them up in boxes and try to give them away. I only keep what will make fun decks I actually want to build, or what holds sentimental value like the Gate Guardian and whatnot. Another problem though, is that it is not easy to keep it that way. Once a year or so random piles will be adding on top of the collection, which I eventually need to return to where they were at. I'm messy, and my brother and I consider it our collection so we are 2 people picking at the same collection every time we have a whim of building anything. At some point we made like 30 decks ranging from starter deck Yugi level, to PePe. Umm I just got off-topic here. Anyways, nice video ;D

Thanks alot, now I'm gonna see more of those cancerous common binders at my locals

What about the "library" route? I more or less keep my cards in this manner: 1 big binder for cards that group as archetypes, in which a number of pages are dedicated to a single archetype (and as a result, if I want to play that arhetype, I leave the pages empty until I return them in the binders) 1 big binder for cards that group as supports for specific type or attribute, such as dragons, warriors, etc. Several small albums that hold all the other cards that (a) don't fit together as an archetype, or (b) too few to dedicate a page in the binder for them. I hope to once collect 3 copies of each card in the game someday... (25000 cards *gulp*)

Love the video man

Great video man!!

This is great, thank you

I watched a 3 minute video just for the realization at the end...thanks Yuginono

But how do you organize this shit? You'll never be able to find what you need if you put commons into binders, because you wont remember what you found good enough for the binder at a specific time. However, I have my common spells and traps sorted alphabetically and my monster by type and it's still a pain to go through stuff.

My old way of handling them as a kid was to use the spare money I would collect to buy zipper binders. I would put 3 cards into one slot both from and back for a total of 6 cards in each slot. Organizing them by Warrior/aqua/machine and so forth. With the spell/trap cards by normal/equip/continuous/quick/field ect. The flaw with this is that zipper binders get harder to find, You need about 2 for your magic and trap cards and 2 for all of your monsters. What it helped was that it allowed my younger kid mind to know exactly where a card should be if I needed to improve a deck. Also while zipped up the entire thing became snug, and never had that tip upside down oh wait their are all your cards on the floor now issue. This method allows weaker players to keep every card nice and neat. While the higher players will laugh at seeing a binder full of weak useless cards. Still, if for some reason cards get more popular because of newer things, you'll know where to find them. All the spare cards should be put into a spare container, and a useless container. You might also want to have a small ban container as well.

i sort my cards by set, from oldest to newest sure it takes a lot of time to take all the cards out each time a new card is bought, but i get to know which cards i need to complete sets

yeah ive been through my common stash many times and always tend to find new random gems from time to time. like just the other say i went through and found a copy of barrier statue of torent and an instant fusion

I keep the useful cards in Binders. The others I try to group them and try to sell it on Ebay, sadly no one wants commons these days.

This whole video is literally me! xD

Do you ever find that the cards you place in the sleeves closest to the rings get warped? Or is that just an issue If the binder is bigger than the amount of card sleeves being used?

Sorry to break it to you but your level of organization is nothing compared to mine. I organized all absolutely all of my cards in archetypes in binders, commons and foils together (kept 3 copies at least of each card and the rest of them are in tins). In the archetypes I have the monsters of the archetype, the spells, the traps and the fusions monsters if there are any. For the generic monsters I sorted them based on the type (plants, fish, warriors etc). For the generic traps I have a separate binder and the traps are organized based on their effect or archetype for example all the mirror forces together, all the trap holes together, all the traps that negate monster effects together and so on. For the spells I also have separate binders, again they are organized based on the effect and/or archetype (rank-ups all together for example) but further more they are separated in normal spells, fields, continues, quick play, equip; ritual and ritual related. And of course at the end I numbered the binders and made a list in excel what archetype/type is in each binder (only for the monsters because I have only 3 binders in total of spells and traps). And of course for the xyz and sycnhros I have separate binders and in there the monsters are also sorted in themes or archetypes. Yes it took me moths to sort all of my huge collection in that way, but now whenever I look for a card it takes me maximum 1 minute to find it. Of course the newest cards are also organized right away in this way. So in the end I know also what cards I don't have. PS classically banned cards are kept together in a separate section of a binder.

I separated my spells, traps, effect monsters, and normal monsters, in different tins. It was at this point I realized I have too much time on my hands lol.

So, I'm just getting into collecting Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Any advice for how to organize them in a way that still makes it easy to add new cards in the future?

2:26 oh you better tell me how did you do that "yugioh box" cuz i already trade all my good common cards ;-)

well i just arrange my commons in categories. spell, trap, monster. with subs like warriors, machines etc. all in 5 tins now and foils in 3 binders. guess my collection is small af lol

I love it that you said that you hated chain burn yet you have a chain strike up on your common wall

what me and my friends (5 of us total) used to do was pull our cards together, We would keep 20 of each card, and when we would get more we would throw them away or burn them. Rares and higher were kept by the owner

I likes the last scentence

I put all my commons and rares in those big white boxes in alphabetical order. I only have my binders full of supers, ultras, secrets etc etc. Have 6 3-ring binders all alphabetical order - monsters in their own, traps in their own and spells in their own. But I have OCD so I suppose that helps.

I don't have your problem as I only own 2 binders of relevant foils, the rest I have chucked randomly in a large storage crate. It's not made of wood, otherwise it'd be pretty cool to set the whole thing on fire.

First? You the best man. Very original and funny

What about hidden arsenal foils?... should they get the same love as foils from other packs?

that ending

I send my commons to my friends in Cuba 🇨🇺 because there are no card shops there and they can't afford imported foil cards.

i keep the by booster, traps, spells and monsters, that way is easier to find a good card

I've been working on organizing my Yu-Gi-Oh cards this is the way I've have been doing it by spell cards type and alphabet trap cards type and alphabet for Monsters I did it by level (normal and effect )and alphabet

YugiNoNo - What I like to do is buy the white boxes that are made to hold Sports Cards, which are available in various sizes. I like the 550 count boxes. Because they fit in my backpack. Anyways, I also buy the cheap penny sleeves (again for Sports Cards), and because they are larger I can put multiples in each sleeve. Normally up to around 10 copies of a card. And, there you have it alphabetically saved cards. P.S. I owned a card shop as a teenager. So I'm ubber good at sorting cards. And, trust me once you have it done it takes no time to keep it that way. Probally cost me 20-30 bucks?!?! Soooo worth it!!!

He really slammed his head there XD

Here is what I did, I organized them by monsters/spells/traps/rare/side or good cards into white binders and sleeves. I posted all the ones I didn't want and managed to sell them by lowering my expected price. Now im clutter free with only my decks and have beefed them up with solemn strikes etc. Btw I made $300 by selling as a collection and in smaller groups ofcourse its unlikely that a buyer will shell out 300 so sell in smaller groups.

Just curious what sets were okay for goat format

how the raw cards doble deck box was made, it still remains a mistery...

I sleeve everything and place them in binders

They really need to add a sanctioned pauper's format ( ONLY commons and rares) to yugioh.

+YugiNoNo whats your favorite deck in this format? I'm a HUGE Lunalight player

nice vid

Commons my favorite card rarity

I just group them by monster , spell and trap for my commons and rares .

great video, theres just one little thing that bugs me, what about stuff in between commons and foils, by that i mean normal rares or even "common" foils (IE Hidden arsenal supers and starfoils and the like)? any advice on that matter?

I mainly keep all my Commons in the mega tins. they hold more and and good storage boxes c: for holos, FUCKING OCD order as followed normal effect ritual fusion synchro xyz pendulum *coming soon* link spells traps usually from highest rarity going down for each type and usually keep only 3 in a slot at one time, or have a playset, nicely spread. excess of the same card (4+) goes into another binder. and I feel ya I probably dumped enough money into this game to own at least brand new 2017 Chevrolet Corvettes >_>

+YugiNoNo even your COMMON trades are better than mine xD

In all seriousness I have tons of crappy commons from years past that are literally useless now. What do?

I really need to alphabetically organize my cards

This is exactly what I do with my commons

lol I recently did this. just decided that I'll keep a playset of every card. the rest is in a tin.

1:47 gets me

just buy those 5k card storage boxes from you local card shops (if they have those) and just keep them there.. they are cheaper IMO for $6 at least here in my locals..

All i have is commons (mostly) so im pretty screwed

Even commons have uses

LOL im still trying to get some common skill drains and amazon wants 9 dollars a copy

I,ve got call of the hunted

fuckin savage bro lol

Or you can sell them to Jon Moore for $15 per 1000 ;o

My school sells rice crispy treats and whenever they runnout I take one of the boxes that stored the rice krispies and I ise them to hold all my cards, they hold to rows next to eachother and you can put tabs on it to label where certain stuff is

hahaha nice vid

People sell commons in bulk on Amazon.

I'm my yugioh collection, much like America the top 10% holds the top 90% of worth

2:28 are you fucking serious ?? 😂

theres another option... do a subscriber giveaway

I use a briefcase

i have 80 call of the haunted

Sorry I'm a bit new... What's goat format?

sold all my commons saturday for 75 euros

lol but I like commons...SCRUB!

After spending like $400 on booster packs I get a shit load of commons

dumb question what's goat format

Did he make a deck box out of cards...

i gave them away to my friends lol i had over 5000

I personally prefer using Commons Rare cards tend to hurt my eyes a lot and I really don't enjoy that

no,you give me your commons XD

J-Jesus o-e

At least in Hearthstone you can disenchant all those unnecessary commons into dust to craft better cards. If only in YGO that sort of thing existed...

I organinize them by their name what do you think about it?

Sacrifice them to the old gods!

I'll buy commons-

i sell my common for 25 cents and i made onky 49 dollars. meh i hive cute players discounts

#bropie

here's what you do with them. you freaking use them

Personally, I just use them to wipe up semen

😂😂😂

Why don't just give them to me

xd

I use my commons to beat people and then say "you spend way to much money on shiny cards in a children's card game just to get rekt mate"