Do you double sleeve your decks? Why / why not?
I don’t have that much first hand experience but here’s a quick literary review of random internet posts:
Pros
- Cards are protected from liquids
- Keeps foils planar
- Top part of the card is protected from dirt
- Is this really such a problem?
- Some people like the shuffle feel
- Cards remain single sleeved when you remove the outer sleeves and put them into a binder
Cons
- More costly
- Thicker decks, especially in 100 card formats
- Deck boxes become tight, trouble fitting tokens etc.
- Shuffling may become more cumbersome
Cards being single sleeved while outside the outer sleeve is quite convenient especially when fine tuning a deck, since the cards that you’re debating adding or taking out often lay around on the table, and many being valuable you’re less worried about their protection. The extra cost is not very impactful if you have somewhat valuable cards, like if you have many 2€ or 2$ cards it may be worth the extra protection, but once the cards are worth 5 or more it’s definitely worth it. You definitely have to plan for bigger deck boxes, especially in 100 cards formats, but it’s actually a problem only if you really have a LOT of tokens. The shuffling does become noticeably more cumbersome only if you were on the edge of shuffleability before, otherwise it’s hardly noticeable.
Lot’s of good points. Thanks for chiming in.
How do you shuffle the big 100 card decks? Mash shuffle the whole thing on the table or something else?