I have double sleeved MTG cards from two decades ago just sitting in storage. Not because I think it’s an investment, I just don’t care anymore. People who do the rubber band and sock approach have their values straight. Have fun playing
Yeah, my mom used to be upset that I didn’t hold onto my old pokemon cards, but not only did I never have any rare ones that would be worth anything anyway, I used them how I wanted to when I wanted to, and when they stopped interesting me, I gave them to someone who was still interested. I don’t regret that.
Right on. You paid for the cards and had a good time. You don’t need to get any money back. The money was well spent. Giving your cards away without regret while enriching the life of a new player is very rewarding. You just know how much they appreciate it and how much joy they will receive from it. Much better experience than hoarding.
The box I store them in is a little small, so I have to bend them a bit to fit them in.
You didn’t have to worry about that if you simply fold them in half.
When i was a kid i did stored my cards with rubber bands, i can rest peacefully knowing they were fake yugioh cards (not that i knew it at the time), now my magic cards are all stored with sleeves in proper sized boxes for them
My Marvel cards were stored in a rubber band
My Garbage Pail Kids were and probably still are stored in a rubber band
That rubber band probably fell apart by now.
As a rubber band gang man, my shiny water damaged, 1st edition,Charizard disaprooves…
I just started playing Magic the Gathering, and my Command Deck I just bought came before my box, sleeves, or dice.
I thought there was going to be a game last night at my local bar, and I was about to recreate this comic (except with the cardboard box it came in instead of a sock).
I feel this in my bones. And I’ve been guilty too
I only started using sleeves when I started to print proxy cards. Why bother to take the collectables out and use them? Paradoxically my proxies were better protected then my originals ever were
Just saw a video about a guy who sleeved them 6 and 8 times. As a meme to some people triple sleeving.
I think his name was dmarmada
I never sleeve anything. None of my boardgames, not my old MtG stuff I gave away. Just never felt the need.
I am both characters.
When I got back into MTG I was at a local game store and I brought my deck in a plastic sandwich baggie, loose with no sleeves. The people there were noticeably on edge about it. I actually did not even understand the issue at the time but have since rectified my ways.
Apparently I had a card in there that was quite expensive too. Whoops! It wasn’t until I was back in the scene for a while that I learned the cards had actual money value to them, I just figured they were all trading cards that do different stuff. Who’d pay $100 for a card?
This made me giggle, thanks for the laugh ☺️
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I just played the game. I didn’t collect them or even know what cards were rare. They’re still pretty well taken care of; no bends, tears, stains, etc. But they’re just loose in an old ammo box under my bed.
Now I have a ton of cards that can’t even be used in competition and some of them are worth hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars. But only to the right people and I haven’t been into the game for so long, I don’t even know where I might sell them if I wanted to other than eBay and I hate using eBay.
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