I love playing Magic and Limited in particular. One of my favorite aspects of it is how many different skills are involved and the way I can feel myself improving them with experience. But there is one particular skill that frustrates me.

I have really, really bad memory.

In Arena, that's not much to worry about: your whole pool is neatly organized, cleanly displayed, and with dynamic stats for curve, card type totals, etc available.

In paper, though, it's more troublesome. I lay out my cards as I draft, face-down but sorted: creatures along the bottom, noncreatures at the top, and both categories organized by mana cost. It's cumbersome, but it's the best way I've found to keep an idea of how my pool is shaping up.

Recently I started experimenting with other approaches, like organizing my spells by function (fixing, ramp, removal, etc) instead of mana cost. So I'm curious how other people organize their pools as they draft.