Storing Your Cards

[emillang1000]

Hey all

Kind of a silly question, but how do you store your Munchkin cards? Personally, I've done it three ways.

The first was to group them together in the original Munchkin box, with a divider between the Door and Treasure cards - each of those grouping consisting of three piles, two set vertically and one at the bottom set horizontally - that had a square space between the sections to hold a bunch of d10s and two d6s. This was pretty good, but I had to overlap some door cars into the treasures in order to make them fit, and the cards would often shift around when transporting the box.

The second was to use the Munchkin Boxes of Holding. This solved a lot of problems - I could put all the cards in the appropriate boxes, and there was enough room in the Treasures box where I could put the d6s and d10s - but created new ones since I didn't have everything in a single box.

Finally, when I saw Munchkin Deluxe, I fell in love - a huge box, a board with levels and spaces for the decks, and 6 munchkin pawns, plus the original set in full color!? I got it on my birthday, and immediately started modding it by using a few pieces of foam board. Here's the result.

What's contained within is: Munchkin, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, Fairy Dust, Munchkinomicon, Waiting For Santa, Santa's Revenge, Reindeer Games, Conan, Reloaded, Monster Enhancers, Marked For Death, 1 of every Promo, Warehouse23 Packs '10 and '11, 6 male Pawns, 1 normal Munchkin d6, and the Gameboard.

What's been added since I took the picture that also fits are: 2 Sparkly Pink Dice, 3 Jolly Jumbo D6s (Red, Green, and Clear), all 6 pairs of Jumbo D6s, and 6 female Pawns.

I no longer keep any d10s or regular d6s in the box, since the Gameboard and official d6s handle all that. Each square space in the middle contains: 2 pairs of the Jumbo D6s (Red & Orange, Yellow & Green, Blue and Purple), while the three Jolly Jumbo D6s are kept in the last space with the Sparkly Fairy D6s and normal Munchkin d6, and each pair of Pawns are kept with their corresponding Jumbo D6s (Red & Orange Male & Female Pawns with the Red & Orange dice, etc.).

The beauty of it all is that the box top still fits as tightly as it originally did, even when the gameboard is laid on top of the foam spacers; even after 8 comes out, there's enough room in each space so that adding those cards won't stop the box from closing perfectly.

I do own Demented Dungeons, but my group rarely uses it, and with the shear size of the cardpool, 16 Portal cards is just not enough to make it really interesting, so 6 remains in its original box all by itself.

Anyway, that's my little kit-bashing rant. How does everyone else store all their cards?

[RevBob]

Originally Posted by emillang1000

Finally, when I saw Munchkin Deluxe, I fell in love - a huge box, a board with levels and spaces for the decks, and 6 munchkin pawns, plus the original set in full color!? I got it on my birthday, and immediately started modding it by using a few pieces of foam board. Here's the result.

What's contained within is: Munchkin, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, Fairy Dust, Munchkinomicon, Waiting For Santa, Santa's Revenge, Reindeer Games, Conan, Reloaded, Monster Enhancers, Marked For Death, 1 of every Promo, Warehouse23 Packs '10 and '11, 6 male Pawns, 1 normal Munchkin d6, and the Gameboard.

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The beauty of it all is that the box top still fits as tightly as it originally did, even when the gameboard is laid on top of the foam spacers; even after 8 comes out, there's enough room in each space so that adding those cards won't stop the box from closing perfectly.

I took rather the opposite approach, since I have a rather large number of sets. I use my Deluxe box for all the "common" stuff that I use in any Munchkin game, and keep the sets boxed separately in Boxes of Holding or white cardboard boxes. From memory, my Deluxe box contains:

- two gameboards
- seven Kill-O-Meters (six players and one monster side)
- Munchkin Dice Bag (with +10d6, +6d6, Fairy Dust Dice, Jumbos, Jolly Jumbos, and both custom Duck of Earl dice* - the small 'all ones' and the big 'd6+6')
- small bag containing male and female pawns
- Munchkinomicon, Fairy Dust, gender, Reversal of Fortune, and sepia-toned Elf cards
- both USB drives
- the authorized Q-Workshop dice
- rule cards for the assorted knickknacks
- promo cards usable at the start of the game
- birthday card and a couple of bookmarks

If the box was a little bigger - say, MQ-sized - I'd also throw my bag of counters and master rulebook inside. However, the 10" inner dimensions keep the rulebook firmly outside - and even so, repacking the box Just Right at the end of the night is a challenge. For instance, the smaller Munchkin-head dice have to be stored in a separate baggie for the lid to fit, because the box is too slim for a layer of standard dice on top of a layer of Jumbo dice inside the bag.

Keep in mind, though, that I have to pack densely rather than lightly when going to conventions. The fewer totes and big boxes I have to move around, the better...but most people's mileage varies.

* Note to newcomers - the "Duck of Earl dice" aren't SJ Games products. Some of us here got together, designed very geeky custom dice with lots of math, and got Chessex to manufacture a small batch precisely to order.

[RL]

I use those white cardboard boxes that you can buy at hobby and card collecting shops. Not as pretty as a Sammlerbox, but not nearly as expensive either.

[LordArach]

I have a rolling suitcase that just fits...

- Standard Card Long Box: Munchkin 1 - 7, & all boosters (Fairy Dust and Munchkinomicon separate doors from treasures), and Munchkin 1 with all promos mixed in
- Box of Holding 1: Munchkin Fu 1 & 2, The Good, The Bad, and The Munchkin, Munchkin Impossible, Munchkin Axe Cop, and 8 Munchkin pawns
- Box of Holding 2: Munchkin Booty 1, 2, & booster, Super Munchkin 1 & 2, Star Munchkin 1, 2, & booster, and 6 Babe Pawns
- Crypts of Concealment: Munchkin Cthulhu 1 - 4, Munchkin Zombies 1 & 2, and Munchkin Bites 1 & 2
- Large Binder: All set & accessory rules, Promo cards, coins & Bookmarks, two Kill-o-meters, Greeting Cards, extra playmats, and Masks of the Munchkin
- Munchkin Dice Bag 1: 16 Jumbo D6's, 3 Jolly Jumbo D6's, Fairy Dust Dice, 2x +6 Bag O' Munchkin D6, 2x +6 Bag O' Munchkin Rainbow D6, and 2x +10 Bag O' Munchkin D6
- Munchkin Dice Bag 2: 7 different Wicked Munchkin Dice, 7 Munchkin Dice, +6 Bag O' Munchkin Level Counters, and 10 Cthulhu Dice
- Munchkin Gameboard

[Rev Ev]

Originally Posted by Chad Cloman

I use those white cardboard boxes that you can buy at hobby and card collecting shops.

I do the same, I have a 5000 card box that I keep all my sets, expansions and other cards in. Then I have a seperate box for my assorted goodies, like KOM, dice, pawns, etc.