Does anyone here have any experience with the arcane card sleeves from strictly sealed?
Link : Arcane Card Sleeves – Strictly Sealed (mods delete if not allowed).
They look cool but seem to be quite cheap, so wondering how they compare, especially to KMC hypermatte or ultrapro sleeves.
For context will just be using to store cards in a binder… no real use.
I don’t know if this late reply is of any use to you still but it might be for someone else in the future.
I use them for my Yugioh cards and am planning on doing the same for my Pokemon cards - so in my opinion they’re awesome. I would consider them (and Ultimate Guard Katana’s) to be pretty much the highest quality sleeves I ever used to be honest. Never was a fan of Dragon Shield and I also find KMC to be a little overrated. I think a friend once used some Ultra Pro Eclipse sleeves for one of his decks and these were also pretty nice. But let’s be real, neither the Katanas nor the Eclipses look anywhere near as good as the Arcanes haha
They’re completely glossy/non-matte and smooth, but I guess that was a given. I have to criticize that on my green pack (the best color imo) the cards seem to not quite “stick to the bottom” if that makes any sense? But it’s not like they stick out on the top either or anything. Just not quite as consistently “centered” as I’d like. The other colors were fine though.
Speaking of colors, I got the following and would rank them:
Green>Light Blue>Orange>Pink>Red
Completely subjective of course. I’m gonna go with Light Blue for Pokemon and Green for Yugioh. Combined with a white-paged Binder it’s absolute eye candy imo!
If you want I can attach some pics!
Man I forgot how much I loved the holofoil on those early secret rare YGO cards. All of these cards look fantastic in these sleeves… I might need to buy a few boxes for my binder cards
Yea, YGO secret rare remains my favorite holo foil rarity to this date. The foil itself still remains unchanged and looks just as good as ever (as long as you’re sticking to US printed cards imo) but the layout and printing changes unfortunately massively downgraded the overall card appeal compared to back then.
