What do you do with spare cards? How do you even acquire spare cards? Amassing Spare Cards 1. if I get a deck that I don't really like to read with, I'll relegate those cards to the "spare cards" pile. 2. if I lose a card or wreck a card from a deck, I'll consider the remaining cards as "spare cards." 3. sometimes people send or give me lone cards (at classes or conferences, for example); those sometimes end up in the spare cards pile. 4. at conferences, sometimes attendees receive free decks; if I get one that I already have and cannot trade it or find someone to give it to, it becomes a bunch of spare cards. Uses for Spare Cards 1. put them in baskets around your house (mix