by ranissi
To provide my own input, and stealing the format from WarioMCP:Necessary:
Attack modifier decks (mini) (3-5 decks @ 20 each)
+1, -1, Curse, Bless modifier cards (mini) (probably somewhere around 40 total)
Monster AI decks (mini) (sleeve as you go)
Player Ability cards (full size)
Pretty Important:
Battle Goals (mini)
Bought items (mini)
Road & City Events (full size) (We found it super useful for knowing which cards were in our current decks)
Sort of Important:
Personal quests (full size) (Okay, not really important, but it's 2-4 cards and why not!)
Not really important:
Random dungeon deck (mini)
All other items (mini)
Others will be able to provide actual numbers, but I believe there's something like 32 different monster decks @ 8 each, and then 20 monster attack modifiers, plus 20 per player - and you probably want another 15 per play for enhancements, plus like 40 or so for the other modifiers... So I would 100% say you need at least 316 plus 35 per player of the mini cards (so 350 if you're playing 1 character, 400 for 2 characters, and 450 for 3/4 characters)...
And then I would also add 8-12 starting hands plus up to 9 additional hand cards for a max of 21 per player of the full size for 50/100 of those.
But you could easily buy an extra 100 mini and 50 full sized and make good use of them. But you're wondering about fitting them in, so I suppose you wouldn't need to do that.
One thing I'll point out, is that all of your player cards can fit back in your player box even if they're sleeved. So the main question is can you live without sleeving the monster AI decks... And while YMMV, I would not recommend it. There are 8 cards in each deck, two of which tell you to shuffle, so on average, you're shuffling them 3-4 times per game, and certain monsters come up quite frequently where you could find yourself playing with them for 30 scenarios, with maybe a 75% win rate, so call it 40 attempts, at 4 shuffles / game = 160 shuffles. And since they're only decks of 8, they're not shuffled properly, but rather handled and made into piles or sideways shuffled in between two hands. All of these end up wearing cards faster than normal shuffling. Though I guess if a single monster AI deck is worn it really doesn't matter - it's not like you'll know what card is coming, so it's not like you'll gain an advantage via marked cards, they'll just be worn. And if you're okay with worn cards, then I guess there's no problem.