When I got my first LCG, LotR, I wasn't going to sleeve, but as soon as I got my first adventure pack, I could see a clear difference between my core set cards and the new cards. I didn't like thought of being able to tell cards from different sets apart from one another, so I decided to sleeve. That was my main motivation. Afterwards, I found I liked shuffling a lot better -- you just slide two haves of a deck together. It pains my soul to see people bend my cards at 90 degrees to shuffle them toghether, but that technique doesn't work with sleeved cards, so it protects my cards by forcing people to shuffle how I want them to. (I play a lot with extended family members who don't understand the financial investment.)

On topic, I think having different sleeves for objectives and command deck cards is really helpful. I've sleeved everything in FFG's clear sleeves except the objectives which have either Star Wars (A New Hope) or The Empire Strikes Back sleeves depending on whether it's LS or DS.

Budgernaut said:

This post really nails the main reason for sleeves (besides protecting your investment) Without sleeves cards tend to develop wear patterns that can be discernible to the owner, meaning you can look at your cards and know what card is coming up next. This is also why most official tournaments require them, and could still reject you if despite sleeves the cards can still be told apart.

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agnos said:

Poop slaps?

Yes.  Poop slaps.

Outstanding. BTW, my cards finally came in the mail today. I am super excited to play!

and Poop Slaps

I thought that mailing poop slaps was against postal code or something.

agnos said:

Only if you consider then flammable or hazardous ;)

Me I mix. Do it with Lotr, Warhammer Invasion (though my brother got those cards and continues the collection with the same system of storage) and now with Star Wars -> cards go in sleeve maps. And the ready made decks are sleeved. Depending on the theme for SW i'm going to try to use different Star Wars backs. And for the objectives something seperate. Probably transparent sleeves.

Yeah, I think sleeves are a good idea. However, I'm not going to buy 57 different types of sleeves so that I can have different colors for objectives, factions, etc. I buy clear sleeves for everything and that works well for me…