Is it possible to print multiple pages on a paper?

Hi, I'm somewhat new to InDesign and am using CS6. I will describe what I would like to accomplish since I'm not sure how to ask my question.
I am making a master page (A-master) for a playing card for the purpose of using data merge to fill in the text/graphics specific to each card. I would like to be able to have the pages lay out in a 3 by 3 grid (or more) with crop marks on the paper when printed. Also, to complicate matters, some of the cards have extra long text I would like to auto-flow into a second (B-master) or third (C-master) page only when necessary.
Doing the layout card by card is not an option as I have a database of 4,000+ cards and need to make it as automatic as possible.
Is this possible in InDesign? Are there plug-ins for this anywhere? Should I use a different print software or switch to something else entirely like css/html and try to convert it to pdf?
How would you approach this problem?

majincob wrote:
I would like to be able to have the pages lay out in a 3 by 3 grid (or more) with crop marks on the paper when printed.
I can tell you how to do that part. If you have a frame to represent the size of your card (maybe it's the text frame that holds your data merge fields), you can select it and go to Window>Utilities>Scripts and select Cropmarks.jsx. Double-click and it will give you a window where you can set the length, offset position and stroke weight of your crop marks. When the marks are generated, you can run the data merge and each instance of the merge will contain the marks (really, anything on the page will be included). If you select Multiple Records from the Records per Document Page section and check the Preview checkbox, you will see how many of your item will fit on the page. You can then switch to the Multiple Record Layout tab of the window and see how changing the available settings will affect how your merge will look. I have read that before you click the OK button to create the merged document, it might be a good idea to uncheck the Preview box.
majincob wrote:
Also, to complicate matters, some of the cards have extra long text I would like to auto-flow into a second (B-master) or third (C-master) page only when necessary.
Sorry, I can't help you with that. I'm not sure it can be done with data merge, but if it can, someone here will likely be able to tell you.

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