I really like this, I have been trying to track one of these down now since I saw your post. But everything is $30-$40 for a bigger sized one. All I see in the $10-$20 range arent wide enough. What are the dimensions on that?
The interior dimensions, if I remember my measurements correctly, are 3.5"x9"x13". What I did is I just kept a card with me and found that two cards fit end-to-end and I eyeballed the length. I did notice that some of the other styles of book boxes seemed to be more expensive for the same sizes, especially the fake bibles and atlases.
I use a craft box I had sitting in a closet that came free with a toolbox I got. It's kind of cheaply made, but deck boxes fit in it pretty well, and the plastic flip lid compartment fit life counters and chessex dice perfectly. It even has a bracket if you want to slap a padlock/wallet chain on it at a tournament for theft protection. Did some looking and you can't get them in stores, sorry! (I think it was a one time purchase for the toolbox manufacturer, made by a foreign plastics place)
I love it! Seriously, that's a great idea!... I've actually got a very similar set of toolboxes which I received as a gift a few years back, and I've never even considered that they'd be sized so ergonomically for carrying around mtg decks and paraphernalia.
Usually I just carry cards in a boring (but very durable) backpack which I bought from an army surplus store. The bag wasn't cheap, but it's got strong straps, lots of space, several compartments, and is durable enough to carry lots of weight, which is good since I usually like to bring a big binder of legacy staples and foils around with me in addition to two long (900-1000 card) boxes (one filled with standard rares, mythics, and popular sought after uncommons, the other filled with various popular rares and mythics for edh), a smaller 300 card box (which holds two of my edh decks), five ultrapro deck boxes (which contain three standard decks, one modern deck, and one legacy deck), one of my playmats, my bag of dice, a bottle of water, a can of coke, and all my other survival tools which I never leave home without (headphones, usb cable, phone charger, swiss army knife, checkbook, hand sanitizer, hemp hand protector, a granola bar, a few basic medications like advil and cough drops, a pen, paper, a permanent marker, and a pair of chopsticks). People usually think I'm a little nuts for carrying around so much weight in cards when I go out to play somewhere, but I like having something for everyone on me to trade with, and this way, whenever I see something in someone else's trade binder (or box) that I want and am determined to get before I leave the venue, I can be certain that no matter what they'll find something (or several things) among the cards I brought with me to trade for. I've literally never had a single person who was unable to find cards they wanted in my collection so my trade success rate is probably much higher than the average person's. If anything, I'm usually the one who has difficulty finding cards I want from other people since most of them only bring a small selection of cards around with them, most of which I either don't want or already have more copies of than I know what to do with. Truth be told, if I had a car I'd probably even bring more cards with me since I have an additional three long boxes of random bulk rares which sit at home and never get shown to anyone at the trading tables.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
I have a deck box (Nicol Bolas) and black sleeves, and I just carry my deck in my sweater pocket.
I suppose if I want to look really cool I could get some sort of hermetically sealed metal suitcase thing that makes a really cool sound and shoots the deck up on a little stand while a bunch of mist from dry ice or a fog machine comes out.
I have a deck box (Nicol Bolas) and black sleeves, and I just carry my deck in my sweater pocket.
I suppose if I want to look really cool I could get some sort of hermetically sealed metal suitcase thing that makes a really cool sound and shoots the deck up on a little stand while a bunch of mist from dry ice or a fog machine comes out.
Are you really making fun of those of us that have more than one deck and want a way to transport them that keeps them from being beaten up? Or are you just bragging about the roomy pockets in your sweater?
I use a craft box I had sitting in a closet that came free with a toolbox I got. It's kind of cheaply made, but deck boxes fit in it pretty well, and the plastic flip lid compartment fit life counters and chessex dice perfectly.
Well damn, here I am trying to see if anyone knows of any high-end mil-spec grade deck totes, when all I should do is take a trip to Home Depot! It's so obviously pragmatic I wanna slap myself.
I have a rather small (but very valuable) collection, I don't own deck after deck or boxes of cards. Just one pimped out kaalia deck and a small 4 pocket binder of sweet foils I may one day use if I get a consistent playgroup. But for carrying around my collection is use this:
It's an Ogio Mach 3 bag. It's a bag meant for motorcycle riding but very nice for carrying my cards around. It's basically waterproof and is crush proof. Opens on the inside, so great for going to big events with lots of people, or busy areas. Not a huge bag but awesome for the price I paid. ($130) Really great for carrying a deckbuilders toolkit and a small binder!
I bring a single deckbox in a plastic ziplock Baggie in a backpack. Ever since I started playing legacy, it makes me super nervous to carry even 1 $1000-2500 deck around, let along multiple ones or a trade binder.
Hey all, I am working on a new bag design seen below. I would love your feedback on it, I know many people just use a backpack, but I am currently very frustrated with my bag because there is no easy experience for tournament play, to pick up and move about easily and securely. I know for some of you this is overkill, but for those looking for an MTG specific bag what are your thoughts? If people like it, I will get it prototyped, and put up a Kickstarter video (just to get the ability to manufacture it) #poorcollegestudentlife.
Lately I've just been using a few fat pack boxes to carry around individual deck boxes as they hold about 3 60 card decks in boxes or 3 edh decks in no boxes. I usually only carry around one fat pack box of decks then a box of 3 edh decks
I use the UOIT backpack I got while attending the university. needs the zipper to be repaired near the end of the lining but other than that its been my most reliable bag
My decks that I rate highly/ play more are either in an old school multiverse gift box or in a Return to Ravnica gift box. Both serve as great,easy to handle, storage that protect my cards sufficiently
This case is awesome. It holds 1 EDH deck per small container and 3 Dragonshield boxes in the 2 larger containers. You can find it for 17$ at the Home Depot (and no, I am not sponsored / affiliated with them in any way :p)
While I have not used them for magic decks, I can attest to the the greatness of these cases. I use them and the shallower version for other games that have a lot of pieces and need to be organized. The ones I bought were from Harbor Freight, and were not under the Stanley label, but they are otherwise identical. The latches are never going to come undone, and opening and closing them scores of times has not put any wear on the plastic parts. Personally it is way over the top for me to bring to a shop- I am fine with 1-3 decks, but if I played more at friends houses I could see using something like this.
UltraPro deckboxes are cheap and wear out, but they're also compact and fit 75 doubled sleeved cards just right. Then you can put them into a Fatpack (RIP).
I personally just have a small duffelbag and a cardboard box that I duct taped the flaps up to hold various boxes, like duel decks, regular UltraPros, and some oversized BCW "deluxe" boxes. (Personally I like KMC sleeves but UltraPro boxes are fine for me, great value, protection, and simplicity really trumps.
One day when I'm wealthy enough I will hire muscleclad guy named Horatio to serve as my deckbox.
He'll wear baggy jeans with a sexy white t-shirt, ripped down the center to expose his chestmuscles, he will carry around my decks, as well as a cooler filled with Fiji Water and a palm leaf to fan me in the most hedonistic way possible when playing at GP.
I dunno if I answered this before, but I use a laptop bag. It can hold
A UP Pro-Dual, with my Standard decks
2 UP Deck boxes, one with my Merfolk deck and one with extra sleeves
A cardboard box with lands and dice
And my 4 pocket portfolio.
It goes in my backpack with my other school stuff. I bring my decks literally everywhere.
The interior dimensions, if I remember my measurements correctly, are 3.5"x9"x13". What I did is I just kept a card with me and found that two cards fit end-to-end and I eyeballed the length. I did notice that some of the other styles of book boxes seemed to be more expensive for the same sizes, especially the fake bibles and atlases.
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I love it! Seriously, that's a great idea!... I've actually got a very similar set of toolboxes which I received as a gift a few years back, and I've never even considered that they'd be sized so ergonomically for carrying around mtg decks and paraphernalia.
Usually I just carry cards in a boring (but very durable) backpack which I bought from an army surplus store. The bag wasn't cheap, but it's got strong straps, lots of space, several compartments, and is durable enough to carry lots of weight, which is good since I usually like to bring a big binder of legacy staples and foils around with me in addition to two long (900-1000 card) boxes (one filled with standard rares, mythics, and popular sought after uncommons, the other filled with various popular rares and mythics for edh), a smaller 300 card box (which holds two of my edh decks), five ultrapro deck boxes (which contain three standard decks, one modern deck, and one legacy deck), one of my playmats, my bag of dice, a bottle of water, a can of coke, and all my other survival tools which I never leave home without (headphones, usb cable, phone charger, swiss army knife, checkbook, hand sanitizer, hemp hand protector, a granola bar, a few basic medications like advil and cough drops, a pen, paper, a permanent marker, and a pair of chopsticks). People usually think I'm a little nuts for carrying around so much weight in cards when I go out to play somewhere, but I like having something for everyone on me to trade with, and this way, whenever I see something in someone else's trade binder (or box) that I want and am determined to get before I leave the venue, I can be certain that no matter what they'll find something (or several things) among the cards I brought with me to trade for. I've literally never had a single person who was unable to find cards they wanted in my collection so my trade success rate is probably much higher than the average person's. If anything, I'm usually the one who has difficulty finding cards I want from other people since most of them only bring a small selection of cards around with them, most of which I either don't want or already have more copies of than I know what to do with. Truth be told, if I had a car I'd probably even bring more cards with me since I have an additional three long boxes of random bulk rares which sit at home and never get shown to anyone at the trading tables.
I pretty much only play limited.
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I suppose if I want to look really cool I could get some sort of hermetically sealed metal suitcase thing that makes a really cool sound and shoots the deck up on a little stand while a bunch of mist from dry ice or a fog machine comes out.
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
Well damn, here I am trying to see if anyone knows of any high-end mil-spec grade deck totes, when all I should do is take a trip to Home Depot! It's so obviously pragmatic I wanna slap myself.
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The pic has 7 deck boxes in it left to right is.
Modern infect
Legacy burn
Extended thing
Legacy affinity
Old black ultra pro box holds life counters, tokens, flip cards.
Under that is 2 pauper decks, UR delver, MBC.
Affinity is getting sleeves and a new box soon.
Crown royal black(good ******* ****) dice bag with 5 mtg 20 side, 5 standard 6 side dice.
I may get a small note pad to slide in the side and a pen can fit in a corner.
All in all I really love it, its water proof but I need to fix the seal it is kinda old but it should be good for nebraska weather.
I just need to decide how I am going to organize the box sense I cant stack them on top standing up right.
Decks I play and stuff.
Legacy Burn
Modern Mono U Tron
It's an Ogio Mach 3 bag. It's a bag meant for motorcycle riding but very nice for carrying my cards around. It's basically waterproof and is crush proof. Opens on the inside, so great for going to big events with lots of people, or busy areas. Not a huge bag but awesome for the price I paid. ($130) Really great for carrying a deckbuilders toolkit and a small binder!
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I use the UOIT backpack I got while attending the university. needs the zipper to be repaired near the end of the lining but other than that its been my most reliable bag
Modern: Merfolk UU // Green Devotion GG // SkRed Red RR
Legacy: Death & Taxes WW // Burn RR // Death's Shadow Delver UB
Commander: Brago UW // Karlov WB
I don't see the point in bringing your whole collection anywhere if you are about to play.
Modern - Burn
EDH - Neheb the Eternal
While I have not used them for magic decks, I can attest to the the greatness of these cases. I use them and the shallower version for other games that have a lot of pieces and need to be organized. The ones I bought were from Harbor Freight, and were not under the Stanley label, but they are otherwise identical. The latches are never going to come undone, and opening and closing them scores of times has not put any wear on the plastic parts. Personally it is way over the top for me to bring to a shop- I am fine with 1-3 decks, but if I played more at friends houses I could see using something like this.
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
I personally just have a small duffelbag and a cardboard box that I duct taped the flaps up to hold various boxes, like duel decks, regular UltraPros, and some oversized BCW "deluxe" boxes. (Personally I like KMC sleeves but UltraPro boxes are fine for me, great value, protection, and simplicity really trumps.
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He'll wear baggy jeans with a sexy white t-shirt, ripped down the center to expose his chestmuscles, he will carry around my decks, as well as a cooler filled with Fiji Water and a palm leaf to fan me in the most hedonistic way possible when playing at GP.
For my many Tiny Leaders and casual pauper stuffs.
For Standard.
And then I usually build a deckbox or 6 out of tokens for Pre-release events.
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.
A UP Pro-Dual, with my Standard decks
2 UP Deck boxes, one with my Merfolk deck and one with extra sleeves
A cardboard box with lands and dice
And my 4 pocket portfolio.
It goes in my backpack with my other school stuff. I bring my decks literally everywhere.
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