Okay, so I finally got one to work very nice. Adobe had been messing me up the same way Foxit was messing me up when I tried to print SW:CCG “virtual cards” (or whatever they were called). The printer sends back it’s unprintable margins, and Adobe tries to be helpful by scaling the image down so the full page now fits within the printable region. This throws off the measurements. When I printed 63mm x 88mm x .41 in, I got a perfectly sized deck for 41 cards. Now, it is tight, about as tight as a… well, I’ll just leave it at that. If you don’t want a super tight deck, you may want to add about .05 in or so to each dimension. I measured in inches and converted the 63mm and 88mm to 2.4803 in and 3.4646 in (because I figure it’s easier to convert twice and done than once for each possible width). For the width, take the number of cards you want to fit and divide by 100 (so, 41 cards would be .41 in, 15 cards would be .15 in, 27 cards would be .27, 60 cards would be .60 in, 579 cards would be 5.79 in, etc). Then just cut along the solid lines (much easier if you happen to have a hobby knife and a pane of glass; unfortunately I only had a pair of scissors). Glue where needed, and you got one. (I personally prefer to glued bottom, even if it is a thin deck, as I’ve always had problems with deck boxes that used a tab bottom with the cards not fitting in right, either a couple cards fall from the bottom as it gets on the wrong side of the tab, or it makes a couple cards impossible to get in as they collide with the tab, etc.)
Thanks so much, this will be super handy! I agree about folded-tab boxes vs. glued tab. I have some DVD collections that can be really irritating to try and get in there because the tab folds out when it shouldn’t.
Maybe you all can release official sleeves and stuff for SotM. Like have the backs of the cards be the backs of the sleeves. I think sleeves like those would be sweet and I would get some of them.
If the price weren’t too crazy, I’d be happy to have sleeves with the appropriate backs on them.
Sleeves customized for each deck would probably get pretty expensive unless there were a huge demand for them. However, a generic SotM sleeve would probably be more within the scope of possibility. It could have a clear window through which you could see which deck it was still.
Wow. Reading all this makes me feel like I’m just awful to my game. My game box is rubber banded closed and each deck is also rubber banded. I understand that this will probably wear out my cards, but I’m okay with that happening after a while. I will most likely buy another copy of the game down the line anyway. shrugs
Mine are currently rubber-banded as I haven’t had a chance to grab sleeves yet (game stores are shockingly sporadic in LA). There’s no immediate damage for doing it this way as long as you’re careful, but it’ll wear over time.
Considering that the demo ones have survived pretty well through two cons now, I think they’re pretty hardy. I think with normal use, they’ll last us quite awhile even without sleeves.
I like the tuckboxes I made using 90lb yellow paper with black text describing who is inside. Almost feels like “gummit cawds.”
(Note: I don’t ever remember having government cheese, but I do remember having government peanut butter, government butter, and government raisin bran as a child.)
I like the idea of doing the same thing but with white card stock and throwing a Dharma logo on them. Perhaps even with, instead of the station symbols, simplified b/w versions of the character logos.
YES YES YES!!!
Err… Uhm… I mean, yeah, that sounds interesting.
Since so many good ideas have been posted, and Adam has outed himself as using rubber bands on his cards (fie!) I feel I should chime in.
Here is my personal copy of Sentinels of the Multiverse:
In the box, you can see that all of the cards are sleeved (with premium sleeves, at that!) and that there are cardboard dividers between each hero/villain/environment. Additionally, at the very back of the box, you can see a bit of the con-exclusive Legacy card, which we gave away at Gen Con and the Chicago Comic Con. We will also have it at PAX, but after that it will be much harder to find. In the section between Felicia’s card and the rest of the deck, I have a stack of my Greater Than Games business cards, as well as 20 ten-sided dice, for HP counters.
The only way this could be better is if I could get Adam to art all over that box for me. Though I’d rather he keep working on the next expansion with his art time.
Just out of curiosity, how does everyone else store their cards in the box? I know you’re not supposed to use rubber bands, because that bends the cards, so how do you all keep your cards organized? I had the idea to sort all the cards into just regular 52 playing card boxes, and the game box turned out to be the perfect size to fit 12 of those boxes, so I’ve got all my SotM cards in those neat little boxes. I assume I’ll be doing the same for the expansion cards too. So what did you all do? I can’t imagine just letting the cards get all mixed up in the box.
Hey evandan457, I’ve moved your question over here since it’s related to the discussion already going on.
Do the 52 card boxes have a lot of extra space or did you put multiple decks into each box?
Oh, my bad. Didn’t see it.
Anyways, six of the boxes have single hero decks in them, four of the boxes have one hero and one environment, and the last two boxes have two villains in them. I was originally gonna have the environments in a separate box, but like I said, the SotM box only holds a dozen, so I just cut down on one.
When I get home, I’ll put up some pictures of my “government cards” boxes.
I only have mine rubber-banded as a temporary solution, and as I’ve mentioned, banding them in the “cross-method” has no immediate effects. It’s if you leave them like that for a long time that it starts to warp them.
Christopher, if we have any downtime at PAX, I could be convinced to draw on there.
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Ooh, that is cool!
That is pretty sweet. I just went to trollandtoad.com and bought enough standard sleeves on they’re $1 for a random pack deal. Then put them all in a card box like the one Christopher posted.