I like to think of myself as being somewhere in the middle. Yes, they're opened and played with, but also lovingly sleeved and double-boxed for organised storage. A bit of an archival treatment, really!

As it happens, quite arbitrarily! This is one of those times where in the absence of any real definition in the game, you make one up that best breaks your articles into reasonable length. In essence, I took the deck pool and divided it into three, and each "Era" will get its own column here.

However, it depends whether you want those precons for fun reasons to see how they play out or whether you are a real purist collector needing to have each and every one sealed as they come shipped, never intending to opening them, just admiring the collection on your shelf. (There are a bunch of toy collectors out there that need their Star Wars figures originally packed …)

This is as well something I find myself considering every once in a while: I do not run a museum, I want to have fun out of my Mtg-Collection … so open those packs, play them, tweak them, take any reasonable advice on doing so and curiously take challenges on creativeness … that's the motto and amongst others thanks to Ertai, it's being filled with life.