GLOSSARY · Accessories & Components
Card Sleeves
Clear plastic covers that slip over individual cards to protect them from wear, bends, and sticky little hands.
Detailed definition
Card sleeves are thin, clear plastic protectors sized to slide over a single card, front and back, leaving the artwork and text fully visible while the actual cardstock stays shielded underneath. They come in sizes matched to standard playing cards, tarot-sized cards, mini cards, and everything in between, since a sleeve that’s even a millimeter off won’t sit right.
For a deck that gets shuffled and handled every single play, sleeving is what keeps corners from softening and edges from fraying after a dozen sessions. It also buys real insurance against spills, snack grease, and the kind of enthusiastic shuffling a card game tends to invite — which matters even more on a game that’s going to pass through more than one house before it’s done circulating.
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