Arcane Tinman AT-11012 Dragon Shield Sleeves Matte Card Game, Pink Medium

Heard a few reviews that characterized Dragon Sleeves as particularly tricky and frustrating to double sleeve, but I have found a few tricks that worked really well for me, and as a result going forward I will absolutely be buying as many Dragon Shields as I can for double sleeving my constructed decks. One thing I will say is I would probably either not use these sleeves for double sleeving at a Limited deck format, or if I did I would choose to only single sleeve with them, because although these work arounds were a total game-changer for getting the job done, they did take a little more time and jiggering before they were ready to play with. Not a huge deal tho, I mean who double sleeves in Limited anyway. So here's my tips...1. Use a hard surface to press the sleeved card into the second sleeve - so the most common issue I had was when pushing the sleeved card into the second sleeve was my pressing would force the card to slide out of the inner sleeve and into the bottom part of the second sleeve without being covered anymore. So at the top of the final double sleeved card now there would be a floppy, empty inner sleeve that you couldn't force into the Dragon Shield sleeve because it wasn't holding a solid card anymore. It was like a short little wind sock stuck poking out of the top. One way to fix this was to flip the card over when it was less than half way through the second sleeve and use a table or something to push it evenly through the second sleeve, instead of pushing it with you finger or hand. Be super careful you are pushing it through straight and not more on one side than the other, and that you are applying as little pressure as possible to the Dragon Shield, because that pressure makes the sleeve a little tighter fit. This is way harder to describe in type than it is to show, but if you figure this out it will make life a little easier for sleeving.2. KMC inner sleeves are NOT that consistent - This was a massive revelation for me, if you have a particular card that is being super stubborn and keeps sliding out of the inner sleeve as you push it through the Dragon Shield, try using a different KMC inner sleeve. It's crazy how often this was the problem. In my testing the inconsistency was never once on the Dragon Shield side, but always always on KMC. I would say just buy extra inner sleeves so you can cull out all the janky oversized ones you find and maybe save those for cards you plan to sleeve for shipping or decide to sleeve with more generous outer sleeves. I saved mine for Ultra Pro Eclipse, which are way easier to double sleeve but I don't like as much as Dragons.3. You can actually stretch the sleeves a little... kinda - I'm sure this isn't recommended by Dragon Shield or by super fastidious players who probably want an absolutely ideal seal on their sleeved cards, but I found that if you have an inner sleeve that absolutely WILL NOT go into an outer sleeve (to repeat I am positive the issue here is the KMC being randomly a little bigger than average and not one Dragon Shield being smaller) I found that putting 2 or 3 unsleeved cards into the sleeve and pushing them all the way to the bottom, then taking them out, sufficiently stretches the Dragon Shield enough to slide a sleeved single card in later. I would work out a system where I would stuff 5 Dragon Shields with 3 basic lands each and set them aside while I put inner sleeves on a few cards, then after a minute or two I took out the lands and then my sleeved cards would slide in much easier. 3 seems to be the magic number here, 2 would work sometimes and I guess technicalyl would deform your sleeves less, but I wanted to save a little time by just doing 3 each from the start. After stretching the cards were way easier to double sleeve, but not so easy that I felt like I completely deformed the Dragon Shield sleeve, but about on par with an inner/outer sleeve pairing that happened to be randomly smooth and easy out of the box, because along the way you'll run into a lot of those as well.4. Sleeve as best you can, get air out, then sleeve again later - if you have a card/inner/outer sleeve combo that's just being super difficult and don't want to stuff the sleeve to stretch it, another way to stretch is to just double sleeve as best as you can, even if there is a little wind sock of inner sleeve still poking out of the top, and then smoosh the sleeved card or cards flat under a stack of books to force out the air for a few hours, then unsleeve and resleeve them again. Pushing the air out I find not only flattens the sleeved cards, but also makes the inner/outer sleeves a little more agreeable with one another. I put books on my fiished sleeves to get that extra air out anyway, it makes the deck way smaller, flatter and less likely to tip over when stacked as a library.As a product review, I prefer Dragon Shield because they come in sets of 100 and have a really high quality relative to other brands I've used. It doesn't hurt that they also come in more interesting colors than other brands, and these new sky blue ones are pretty striking. They're not quite as light as I thought they would be given how pale the blue on the box is, I would say they are way closer to the blue used on the frames of actual blue cards in mtg, whereas regular non-sky blue would be a little closer to like a pepsi can color or slightly darker. I really like this color for use with a blue or mostly blue and colorless deck. But again, hearing about the double sleeving issue was almost a deal-breaker for me because my preference is to always double up to protect from potential water damage, and if these sleeves were incompatible with that they would be useless to me, but with these hacks I will totally be buying Dragons whenever possible going forward!

I got these because cheap ones I bought in the store kept breaking. These work so well, they hold the card compactly and they are quite sturdy. They do not feel like the flimsy material used in cheap sleeves, so I feel secure putting my cards in there. If you’re considering these sleeves but they might be too expensive, they’re worth it if you value the quality of your cards.

Dragon shield sleeves shuffle well and keep cards safe for a decent price.

Dragon shield sleeves are by far some of the highest quality I've used. The come in a variety of colors with many different themes. The sleeves make shuffling so easy, but double the size of your deck, making it difficult to fit in some boxes and hard to shuffle if you have small hands. These sleeves fit standard pokemon and mtg cards b

Have been using these sleeves for years for MTG cards, but in purple and emerald. They have proven to be of good quality and durable. I got the pink for my sister, and they are a very nice color and same quality as the rest. I can see the silhouette of the cards from the back, but cannot distinguish the pattern of the card like another review mentioned. Overall, I'll always buy these sleeves in the future because they're so good. (My photos are true to color of the color pink, at least on my Samsung Galaxy S10e).

First time using these sleeves and I am sold!

I love the pink

Easy wipe for my son that I always have to chase him down to wipe his nose. He lets me with these compared to others