umtiger wrote: ↑3 years ago
I don't have to say so. It's just a fact. And you most definitely don't need a microscope to tell.
On anything other than a cursory inspection, the top of the card will have evidently different wear/scuff/dirt than the bottom of the card. If that doesn't matter to you, that's one thing. But to say that you'd need an electron microscope to tell is another thing.
Double Sleeving does make your EDH deck take up more room in deck boxes and containers. But I don't see how this influences shuffling as much since whenever I see people shuffle, I almost always see them portion their decks. Double-sleeved or not, most people don't/can't shuffle all 99 cards at one time. If "the time wasted" irks you that much, just think about all those pile shufflers out there.
I'm not sure there's any productive ground to be covered here - I'm looking at my cards and I don't see anything. Not sure what I can tell you since it doesn't sound like you're willing to listen.
Just now I took out my main collection's sol ring - probably my most played card, it's been in nearly every deck I've played for the past 7 years, when it went directly into a sleeve from one of the 2013 precons - making it an ideal candidate to look at since it started off minty fresh. Since then I've replaced the sleeve multiple times after they got incredibly filthy - the top of the sleeve accumulated a significant layer of grime and the top became warped from use. So this thing has seen some serious play. And I'm looking at it as closely as I can under the light. And I don't see a single speck of dirt, or scratch. It's clean as can be.
Call it a fact all you want, but it doesn't square with what I'm seeing at all. What is your evidence for this claim, exactly? Have you personally found your cards to become dirty from use with single sleeving? If so, what sleeves are you using? How are you shuffling?
I can shuffle 99 cards comfortably in single sleeves. Not so much with double sleeving. Portion shuffling is much harder to achieve true randomization, and it's annoying to do. I'd need to see noticeable wear on my cards to justify such an annoyance - squinting at my most played cards for ANY sign of wear and seeing nothing is not exactly enough to make me worry.
TBH I'm fairly worry-prone, so double sleeving is exactly the sort of nonsense I'm predisposed to do, if I saw any reasonable justification for it. But...I really, really don't.
@pokken Oof that looks painful lol. Whatever works I guess. I can do about 10 in 40 seconds single-sleeved (also out of practice).