Card care, written plainly
Protection for your prized pulls.
Whether you’ve just pulled a first edition Charizard, a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a rare One Piece leader, an Enchanted Lorcana, or a powerful Magic: The Gathering card, TCG Shielded helps you protect your collection. We provide the best information and card protection products to keep your Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, and MTG cards in mint condition for years to come. Perfect for complete newbies, casual collectors, card chasers, and investors.
Play
Matte sleeves, a hard deck box, dice kept somewhere else.
Show
A penny sleeve inside a magnetic case, off the windowsill.
Keep
Upright, dark, and a room that stays around 40–55% humidity.
Stack builder
Tell it the job. It names the layers.
Play, binder, shelf, post, grading submission, or long storage. Standard size or Yu-Gi-Oh! size. The links are the products in the armoury.
Recommended stack
A binder that does not bite
Side-load, no rings, one sleeved card per pocket. The sleeve is what touches the page, not the card.
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Perfect fit or penny
A perfect fit seals dust out. A penny is fine if the card is thick and the perfect fit fights you. Standard size — the same family as a Pokémon card.
Dragon Shield Perfect Fit, standard on Amazon - 2
Side-load zip binder
Stitched pages, zip shut. Skip O-ring binders — the ring leaves a dent on the inner column.
Vault X zip binder, 9-pocket on Amazon
Leave these out
- PVC pages. If the pack does not say PVC-free, do not buy it.
- Two cards in one pocket.
- Top-load pages in a bag. Tip the book and they leave.
- A windowsill. Light fades ink, including through a clear page.
From the manual
Start with the job in front of you
Armoury