I just had a thought about streamlining the Black Market deck for me. Sadly, I won't be able to test this out probably until next weekend, but I thought I'd throw it out for the identification of flaws/opportunities.
A little background: I placed all of my cards in one Dominion box. While the idea of having tabbed dividers was appealing, I took a different sort of advice. I put all my kingdom cards in little baggies. Rather than shuffle the randomizer deck and go hunting for specific cards, I just reach into the box and pull out 10 kingdom cards. The upside is that it's pretty quick (though there is the unwrapping portion to contend with). One downside is that I generally put the cards back in the box in chunks, so the cards aren't really randomly drawn. I offset that with scattering my choices, but it's generally a price I'm okay with paying.
The Black Market deck does get kind of weird. I fish around in the box and pull out three bags. If you want one, pull a card out of the bag. This means that the cards don't go to the bottom of the deck. When playing with a Black Market deck of 119 cards, this generally isn't that big of a concern.
But, it's a bit of a pain, and I often veto Black Market just to keep the game running more smoothly. That's just not fair. I wondered if there was a way to play Black Market without relying on the huge store of cards. That's when this idea hit me.
I could use my randomizer cards again. I'd have that stack plus a stack of blank cards. If a Black Market card is purchased, that randomizer card is placed to the side, and a blank card goes into your deck. Naturally, these cards cannot be completely blank, as that would make multiple purchases confusing. The blanks can be numbered, with the randomizer cards sitting off to the side, indicating the number represented (could be with number chits or placement of cards). At the end of the game, all blank cards go back to that stack, and all randomizer cards go back to its home. No need to put away 20 different kingdom cards.
Though, after having written this out, it still sounds like it's a lot of hassle. Maybe it looks simpler to me because of how my cards are stored, but I'm afraid I don't see that big of an advantage compared to pulling cards out of a box.
So, I guess I've successfully talked myself out of this method, but since I wrote this much, I'm not going to let it go to waste. Are there suggestions on how to make this still work, or is it beyond salvage?