How I Travel with Cards

Disclaimer: In this article I'm going to s̶h̶i̶l̶l̶... discuss a lot of the products I use with my storage and transportation. Since I'm talking about and linking to a lot of products, I want to be upfront that I have no relationship with these companies. My only sponsor is my wonderful wife, who pays for all my ridiculous hobbies (love you!). Mostly though, I want to apologize for my laziness and the terribly posed and lit pictures.

With Con of Heroes right around the corner, I've been prepping to traveling with way too many cards. I figured I might as well share what I do! It's probably not the best way, but it is my way.

I actually use this same set up for my weekly play, both for Marvel Champions and Star Wars Unlimited. For Champions, I usually set up a box with a 4-8 heroes and 4-8 scenarios, and it acts as a "campaign box" for a week or two. I love this because it takes all my prep work and condenses it into one session. I pop on a movie, build some decks, and have a chill time. When it comes time to play, my decision space is drastically reduced, and it's way easier to get things to the table. For my SWU weeklies, I like having this setup to keep 4-5 decks handy as well as all my trades and tokens.

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The Stuff

Here is a quick list of the products you'll see below. I'll show various pictures of my packing set up for this year's Con of Heroes. I'm also including pictures of the cards in some other boxes I use. The links below are to help you see which product I'm specifically talking about, but if you're looking to purchase anything, definitely check your local game store. Burger Token boxes and the Quiver case are the only products I can't get locally.

• Gamegenic Lair 600+

• Gamegenic Lair 400+

• Quiver Card Case

• Burger Token Perfect Fit deckboxes in various sizes

• Chessex 12mm dice

• Gamegenic Token Silo inserts

• Gamegenic Matte Prime sleeves in various colors

• laser cut status tokens (courtesy myself)

First, I want to talk about Burger Token deckboxes. I love these things. They are a little flimsy, so it's not something you're going to chuck into a backpack on their own. However, in conjunction with another storage system, they are amazing. They are thin enough that they fit almost everywhere you'd put normal sleeved cards.

They come in a variety of sizes, meant to hold both unsleeved and sleeved cards. I have only ever used the sleeved versions. They shake out to be about $1 per box before shipping. I use a variety, but most commonly I use the 50 Sleeved (50 S) size. I love this size, because it fits a 40-45 card hero deck and their nemesis set. You can put about 10% more cards in a box than the listed size, so you can get about 55 cards into a 50 S. If you tend to build larger decks or are using someone like Doctor Strange or Iceman that come with extra cards, you'd probably want to jump up to the 60 S. I also use the 80 S, 60 S, 30 S, 22 S, and 15 S, which you'll see in the images below.

Without further ado, here is the important stuff.

Storage

Here is the Gamegenic Lair 600+, packed to the brim:

This is my main travel solution for Con of Heroes. On the top left you'll see two stacks of a 22 S and a 15 S. Next to those is a 30 S. As a note, the 50 S is too large for that top section. You won't be able to put the lid back on.

Here are all the cards and boxes that are inside. You can find a full list at the end of the article. This does not show the dice and tokens.

Is that a Jubilee in there? Of course it is! I'm going to be giving out 100 Jubilee alt-arts at the con, so come find me to get one!

Here are the drawers:

• The small drawers can fit a 22 S and a 15 S stacked. They may be able to even fit their 43 S, but I don't have any of those (yet).

  • Reddit user xgenzero confirmed that you can fit a 43 S in the drawer! The 50 S however is too large.

• If you want to keep your 12mm dice a little more organized, they fit into the 22 S really well. When I'm using a Quiver, that's how I pack dice and tokens.

• The small orange inserts are from a Gamegenic Token Silo. The height fits well, but during flights a few of my tokens definitely jumped out. They didn't make it out the drawer, but a couple slipped out of the inserts. These work great for keeping things organized once there though.

So that is the quick overview. I fly with this in my carry-on. It's pretty heavy, weighing in at 8.3 lbs (3.8 kg).

Since I have it all together, I figured I might as well show it in some of the other boxes I have used. Here is the Gamegenic Lair 400+ and a Quiver Card Case. I have also included images that show what all from the Gamegenic Lair 600+ didn't fit into these.

That's it! I hope seeing some of this was helpful. Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions (astrodar on discord, infinitesquarewhale on reddit).

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What's in the Box?

If you're wondering what exactly is in the box, here are all the heroes, scenarios, and modular sets I'm bringing. I've included links for the hero decks, but these are not 100% finalized. Most of them are decks I modified from my Hero Refresher series.

Heroes

• Spider-Man (Miles) 'Pool

• Valkyrie Aggression

• Psylocke Justice

• Venom Leadership

• Rocket Raccoon Protection

• Jubilee Basic

Sideboard

• Player Side Schemes

• Aerial Events and Upgrades

• Honoraries and General Good Stuff

Scenarios

• Thunderbolts

• Sandman

• Risky Business

• Mysterio

• Sinister Six

• Mutagen Formula

• Brotherhood of Badoon

• En Sabah Nur

Modular Sets

• Standard

• Standard III

• Expert

• Band of Badoon

• Black Tom Cassidy

• Celestial Tech

• City in Chaos

• Cosmic Entities*

• Crazy Gang

• Gravitational Pull

• Guerrilla Tactics

• Hard Sound

• Hellfire

• MCM Madness (custom mod)

• Mister Hyde

• Pale Little Spider

• Personal Nightmare

• Power Drain

• Power of the Atom

• Supersonic

• Symbiotic Strength

• The Inheritors

• Tough Decisions (CoH 2024 mod)

• Weapon Master

• Wrecking Crew

Extras

• Assorted sleeves

• Boxes and Sleeves for Con of Heroes scenario and custom content

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Conclusion

That's it from me! I hope that this helps someone at some point. Most likely that someone will be me when I go to pack next year.

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*Cosmic Entities is just the 4 Cosmic Entities (from Adam Warlock's precon) used as a bonus mod. It's a fun way to lighten up a scenario. Treat them as being owned by the scenario and having 0 boost icons. Or for some added relief, you can treat them as having a boost effect that says "Resolve the When Revealed ability."