When I started out, I get to a few binder pages (1 page = 9 cards) pretty fast. It is nice looking at those pages. After a period, I filled up a binder that can hold 180 cards in total. It is still nice flipping through the binder looking at them.

Now that I have reached 800+ pieces, the other 600+ pieces are sitting in various boxes. 2 boxes can hold 200 cards each, and another 5 small boxes that can hold 50 cards each. Though my collection is enhanced, but I no longer have the joy of "flipping through album" looking at these newest 600 additions. They are kind of like bulk UC/C that people store in boxes.

So a few questions

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My squirrel collection is much larger, but I just keep the common, non-foil squirrels (Acorn Harvest, Chatter of the Squirrel) in a box, rather than in pages.

As far as my whole collection goes, though, I have a Standard binder, an Extended/Legacy binder, a Squirrel binder, and a Blood of the Matyr + Artist binder (I'm trying to get one of every card by Rob Alexander, in foil if possible). If I run out of room, I can always just stick cards in another binder.

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I do still collect Ihsan's Shade, but only as throwins.

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As for when to stop, it depends on what you collect. I collected foil Morgue Toads for a while, but I quickly realized I'd run into a problem of displaying them, i.e., a binder full of them is cool, but 6 binders? At that point it isn't really any more impressive, and you just look crazy.

However, if you hoard something that's a little more rare, then it gets a lot more interesting and managable. It doesn't need to necessarily be valuable either. If you had 100 Warrior's Oaths, that'd be impressive.

I think the key to having a good collection is being able to showcase the effort you put into building the collection.

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When the market dries up.

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Originally posted by Havoc Demon:
When the market dries up. I have a pretty big chunk of the Nantuko Shades in Boston and its gotten to the point where I see probably one every couple of weeks. It's also difficult to justify trading for them online due to shipping costs and the fact that its not worth much.

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This (minus the Boston part ). I'm currently hovering at around ~200 Nantuko Shade. I want a version of each language foil/non foil, and at least a few signed copies before I "stop" actively seeking them. No one within ~45min of me seems to have them anymore, and unless I buy/trade for them in bulk, it's not worth it.

I figure I'll probably stop when I reach a full, large-sized binder for each with the Memnites, Wurm Tokens, AN Rukh Eggs, and Lotus Petals. The Wurmcoil Engines, and Thorn Elementals I will continue to collect and add into new binders as needed. My collections are not that huge at the moment though so this is something I've not had to deal with yet.

Not really sure if this counts as hoarding or not, but I'm also trying to collect 10,000+ foils of any set/rarity in NM/Mint condition (no basic land) which I'm not really bothering to display at the moment. They all go in penny sleeves and card boxes. Once I have them I'll probably just keep them as a big box-O-foils. Displaying them in binders would be fun, but is probably not worth the time to do since they are all going to be (mostly) different cards. No particular reason for collecting these except to see if I can pull it off so I'm not terribly motivated to display them except as bulk boxes.

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if I get even remotely close to my ultimate goal; having XXXX amounts of them (largest Nantuko Shade collection ever. Period).

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Do you happen to know of someone who personally has a larger collection?

I collect Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief primarily, to a lesser degree Sangromancer, Vampire Hexmage, and Mirri, the Cursed.
I probably have almost 40 Drana now (no foreign though, WTF), about a dozen Sangromancer in 4 or 5 languages, and a dozen Hexmage in 3 languages (and 2 that are overly purple. Instead of it's regular print color they are much more vivid and look sweet). Don't have many Mirri but i did get a sweet russian one.
I also keep every vampire card i have (i also collect every other vampire card) on me whenever i go places stored in a 800ct box with my decks, wasting space. For a while i started carrying less decks but i've been removing extras of commons and just keeping every rare or pimp and 1 copy each of the common stuff.

I probably won't stop collecting vampires in general, but i will actively seek out a global set of Drana, and hopefully collect enough to affect the price. I know it will take a long time but if i could obtain literally every copy i would do it.

For Drana i keep 10 at a time in a penny sleeve, and foils 2 to a sleeve. I put several Drana in a cool black lotus sleeve to stand out for EDH.

Someone send me foreign Drana. Why do i have none and why have i seen none? I must have like 6 languages of vampires yet none of the one i care about most >.>

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I also keep every vampire card i have on me... For a while i started carrying less decks

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the hard part of the collection is going to be the summer plague rat, wich i'll probly never see 4 of so i'll be happy to end my collection with at least 1
the italian promo relentless rats and salvat rats are pretty rare to, I have not been able to get any yet.
(the few ppl that have them dont like to part with anything. much like artist proofs. people dont budge)

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Do you happen to know of someone who personally has a larger collection?

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As far as I know of? No. I'm sure Havoc is somewhere near that, or probably one of the few people that can come close.

However, once my new motorcycle is paid off, I plan on skimming through the sales threads here and just buying them from every dealer that has 10-15+... I mean, they're like .80-$1 per copy.

I'm sure there's someone out there that has a huge collection of them, but these things don't go noticed really. If you know anyone that has a larger collection though, send them my way!

P.S. @ Havoc... RECONSIDER MY OFFER SIR!!

EDIT: What's really going to be interesting is trying to find signed, altered, and/or signed, foil, altereds... those are going to be a pretty penny. I mean, how many altered Nantuko Shade can there be in the world? Or signed + foil + altered? My wallet cried a bit.

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Getting altered versions by other members is another great alternate version.

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Absolutely. My MOTLer-altered Nodorogs get the very front of my first binder!

I had a little time to kill, so went through and updated the numbers on my Nodorog collection, and this is what I have:

16 MOTLer-altered
6 Japanese
4 Japanese foil
37 Chinese
0 Chinese foil - need!
0 French - need!
3 French foil
112 Russian (1 signed)
4 Russian foil (1 signed)
8 German
0 German foil - need!
93 English foil (2 signed)
1740 English (1 signed)

2023 total, plus the original sketch that Pete Venters submitted to WotC before creating the artwork, and an artist proof that he sketched for me. More than I thought, but clearly a lot of holes in getting all of the languages covered. If anyone knows of languages I'm missing, please let me know! I believe Spanish and/or Portuguese are needs, but not sure, really.

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Yeah I don't know how many I have at this point, but it's some large number. Have a bunch of types too from A/B/U to fbb/rev./ on down.

Thought of something that would actually be pretty cool to use them for, get a bunch and make a short flip card movie. Basically draw something on the pic or add text and then flip through them w/ a camera rolling, post it on youtube or something of that nature. At least at that rate you have used them to some degree and they aren't just being hoarded!

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I'm working towards the largest collection of a single card in the world. I may have it, not sure. I'm at 3.66% of the entire print run. Problem is I've single handedly increased the price on the card by 400%.

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OK, you've officially piqued my curiosity. Which card is it that you are collecting?

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006 Alpha
006 Beta
006 Collector's Edition
018 Unlimited (6+6+6)
216 Revised (6x6x6)
108 German Limited (6x(6+6+6))
108 German Unlimited (6x(6+6+6))
042 French Limited (6+6x6)
072 French Unlimited ((6+6)x6)
042 Italian Limited (6+6x6)
042 Italian Unlimited (6+6x6)

But sold everything in 99...When I restarted in 08 I wanted to redo this collection...but the prices are just too high...

I stick to my artist signed card collection. That's enough to keep me occupied...

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OK, you've officially piqued my curiosity. Which card is it that you are collecting?

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Alpha something

Either Dwarven Demo Team or Animate Wall would be my guess. Those cards are ridiculously hard to get in Alpha.

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