Emily Parker

If you have ever winced while watching a friend riffle shuffle your freshly sleeved board game cards, you already know the problem. Sleeves are supposed to protect your cards, but the wrong shuffling technique bends corners, nicks edges, and tears the very sleeves you bought for protection. Learning how to shuffle sleeved board game cards … Read more

If you have ever tried to fit a tarot-sized card into a standard sleeve, you already know the frustration. The card sticks out the top, the corners bend, and the sleeve tears at the seams. Most sleeve brands optimize for standard trading card game (TCG) sizes, leaving anyone with oversized or tarot-sized cards scrambling for … Read more

If you have ever played hundreds of rounds of 7 Wonders or Race for the Galaxy, you already know the toll that shuffling takes on your cards. The edges fray, the corners soften, and those beautifully printed double-sided cards start showing ghosting through the back. Sleeving fixes all of that. But here is the catch: … Read more

Pulling a beloved game off the shelf only to find sticky, foggy, or glued-together sleeves is genuinely frustrating. I have been there myself, staring at a brick of Catan cards that refused to separate. This is exactly why I put together this full walkthrough on how to re-sleeve board game cards when your old sleeves … Read more

Double sleeving is the best way I know to protect valuable board game cards from moisture, dust, scratches, and bending during regular play and long-term storage. It does not damage cards when done correctly, and the process takes only a few extra seconds per card once you build the habit. In this guide I will … Read more

Legacy board games changed everything for our group. When we cracked open Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 for the first time, we knew those cards were going to get stickers, scribbles, and tears over the next 12 to 24 sessions. That realization hit our wallet hard. We needed to figure out how to sleeve a legacy … Read more

I learned the hard way that ordering card sleeves without measuring first is a waste of money. After buying sleeves that were 1mm too small for my Catan deck and ending up with 60 useless plastic sleeves, I started measuring every game before ordering. This guide walks you through exactly how to measure board game … Read more

Learning how to sleeve a game with several different card sizes in one box saves you from the headache of mismatched protection. I spent three weekends testing sleeves across four games with mixed card sizes, and what I found changed how I approach board game protection entirely. If you’ve opened a new board game and … Read more

Standard American (poker) board game cards measure 63 x 88mm (2.5 x 3.5 inches), while European size cards measure 59 x 92mm (2.3 x 3.6 inches). The European cards are taller and narrower than their American counterparts. If you’ve ever stared at a row of card sleeves wondering which ones fit your board game, you’re … Read more

You sleeve your cards to protect them. Then you go to put them back in the box and they will not fit. If this has happened to you, you are far from alone. This is one of the most common frustrations shared across board game and trading card communities, and it happens for reasons that … Read more