I’m back and forth on the multi-binder trade system. Often people end up asking “ok, where’s the good stuff?” and I’m forced to respond with “I didn’t see anything that merits the good stuff” or something similar. So it’s often a delicate balance with a second binder on when to pull it out and when to just ride what you have.

I think that’s what I’m here for!

Even within the lower value binder I try to only keep trade fodder (10% of the binder is cards that are 50 to 2$ and the rest are 2 to 20$ and above and the other binder has cards that are 10$ and above).

Thanks David, I try!

The second binder is mostly staples, unqiue/high value promos, duals, etc. Stuff I need incase my trade partner has higher value cards. I’ve found that having the higher value or combined binder just leads to folks wanting higher value cards. For example a few weeks ago there was someone at my LGS wanting shocklands and I told him I had a few and took a quick look through his binder and quickly pulled out 4 VORs. While he was waiting he looked through my higher value binder and changed his mind to only wanting a LOTV + Shocks. Had he not seen the other cards we would have had a perfectly fine trade.

I usually lead off and ask if they are looking for anything specific and start with whichever binder supports that. If they are looking for legacy, DCs duals etc, I would give them the higher value binder or if they are looking for standard or lower value cards I would give them the lower value binder.

It also saves a ton of time since it helps the trader key in on what they are looking for. I trade across all three formats and am usually willing to pick up staples so I’m pretty flexible when trading).

Thanks Robert!