Just having some fun, relax. And joking aside, it's very possible you play more often than I do - I usually play once a week for ~4 hours. Someone, say, living with roommates who play magic could conceivably be getting a lot more use out of their cards than I do.The Fluff wrote: ↑4 years agoWe played in a normal house, no need for the sarcasm. We played around 4 years single sleeved, and all white bordered card were ruined. If you won't believe then there's no one forcing you to believe that single sleeving deteriorates cards eventually.
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Thanks for including the scans, that's helpful for my understanding. Have you tried cleaning them? Are there actual scratches or is it just gunk?
There are other factors that might explain the disconnect: are you playing on a clean playmat? What kind of sleeves are you using, and how deep are they? How many hours a week do you play? How do you shuffle? Was the card in NM condition when you got it?
It's not really an issue of me not believing you. I've used my own collection for a lot longer than fours years in single-sleeves, and haven't experienced any damage to my cards from what I can tell. I believe it's happening to you, but it's not happening to me, at all. On my duals, which were at best LP when I got them, the borders are all snowy white, except maybe a few flecks of hand gunk on some of them, although that could have been there when I got them. I've had all of them since 2011 iirc, and they've always been in every deck they could legally be in, so they're as played as almost anything I own. And I'm running all the fetches, so I shuffle plenty.
My sleeves are pretty grimy at this point, the tops tend to have a patina of hand gunk along the inside top border for my commonly-used ones. But the cards themselves look totally fine to me. Here's my sea, probably my most-used dual - you can see the layer of gunk on the sleeve, but the top border of the card barely has a speck of dust on it.