The cards are almost glued to the sleeves. That funky pattern is where they are stuck. Upon removing the cards, the residue remains on the sleeve (seen below).
Anyone else having this issue or have had this issue? Kinda worrisome because it seems to be affecting all my V cards. For reference I use normal Ultra Pro sleeves, nothing fancy. I suspect it has something to do with the chemical used to produce the smooth texture of the cards.
I wonder if this is exacerbated by humidity. Do you control your temperature and humidity well where you store these V cards?
Do you see this issue on the back inner surface of the sleeves where they touched the backs of the cards?
If this issue is viewable from both inner sides of the sleeve, then I would guess that it’s an issue with the sleeves or humidity/temperature. If it’s just on one inner surface, then it’s clearly interacting with/adhering to the surface of the V foiling in some odd way.
Could also be an issue with the plastic of the sleeves, if that is a product thst came from Amazon I would look at that as the first suspect of poor material that could be reacting with the cards.
Pretty sure its a humidity thing along with the gloss used on the cards. Besides dessicant packs to control humidity, not sure what else to suggest. Good luck.
There doesn’t seem to be residue left from the backs of most of the cards.
I don’t control humidity. However, I have never experienced this with any other type of card, from any era, including everything else from SwSh. It only appears to be affecting standard V cards.
I’ve seen this happen before when browsing bulk cards at a LGS before. So it’s not an isolated issue. Could be humidity, but living in the desert in California, I’m willing to be it’s the sleeve material. I haven’t seen it happen to my V cards personally.
Thank you for the responses, everyone. I can try humidity packets and see if that unsticks the rest of them. If it doesn’t, then this officially sealed any chances of me continuing to collect entire SwSh sets lol.
Unless you get the reusable desiccants, I would recommend buying a dehumidifier for your square footage. Dehumidifiers are far more effective and reliable at controlling the relative humidity in a room/home.
My house tends to be more humid than not. I’ve only ever experienced some light card curling, but since switching to Dex protection binders, that problem has been eliminated entirely.
What are some signs of too little humidity I can check for in other cards?
This also happens to many of my V-cards. I can check more after work, but so far I noticed an English Volcorona V that had the marks on the sleeve after removing, but I couldn’t find any evidence on the card, and a Japanese Umbreon V that didn’t have the marks on the sleeve, but had discoloration in those areas of the card. Relative Humidity in my house is between 65-70% year round.
So here some more examples, on the Empoleon V you can clearly see a lot of residue stuck to the inside of the pennysleeve. Upon close inspection I was able to find faint markings on the card as well.
On the Japanese Corviknight V you’ll there’s no residue on the sleeve, but quite clear discoloration on the card itself. Very interesting. These cards have been stored as part of a stack. On V-cards stored as singles in toploaders for a similar period and in the same humidity conditions I found no markings at all.
This is very high. Most people want a relative humidity between 40%-60% to be comfortable. Anything above 60% can become dangerous to human health because it encourages mold growth.
I’m wondering if excess humidity is causing this issue?
This is very interesting. Is there any chance its the type of gloss used on the card itself? People here are comparing it to classic CoroCoro cards but I can guarantee the finish on those cards is different from the mass produced modern v cards. Perhaps the slightly different material mixed with a higher than average relative humidity is causing the problem. Only reason I bring up this is because I lived in a very humid region for a very long time and never saw this happen over a decade with different era cards and various methods of storage.
