• gencha@lemm.ee
    70·
    3 months ago

    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

    • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • gencha@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    The box I store them in is a little small, so I have to bend them a bit to fit them in.

  • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
    14·
    3 months ago

    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

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    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).

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    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

  • wia@lemmy.ca
    6·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    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?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.