Care For Your Trading Card Games

May 12, 2009 by  

Who doesn’t simply love a trading card game? They come in all types and styles and are very popular currently. Just about every kid and many adults have at least one set of these specially designed trading cards. There are many different themes as well. Many of the most collected cards seem to be fantasy-related. However, you can also find sets with interesting cartoon characters and others with exciting sci-fi themes. They are usually family-friendly so everyone can join in the fun.

Online games became a big fad, but few parents liked to see their kids sitting in front of a computer day in and day out. And the kids get tired of it, too. They like to be able to actually sit down with their friends and interact in adventurous kids games with some exciting plots and twists. Besides, it’s much more personal to sit down with a friend and play a game. It does more to test your skill and intelligence. But these games for kids have a lot more going for them than just the game. They can turn out to be something that increases in value.

Anyone who values his or her trading card game will want to protect it. The original set they purchase really should last forever. There’s no reason for it not to if you look after it. There a few things you can do, easily, to keep your cards in good condition.

Rather than depend on the small card box your cards came in, you can get custom card boxes to hold your cards. These will protect them better than a flimsy cardboard one. You can also buy plastic card sleeves. They are fairly inexpensive and are the very best to keep your cards in mint condition.

To understand your objective and to understand what “perfect condition” really is, here are some descriptions of the conditions in which you may find cards. First you have a card that is considered in mint condition. In this case there are no imperfections in the printing on the card, and there’s no damage at all to the card itself. Although keeping your cards in mint condition is best, they will still hold much of their value if they are in what’s called “near mint” condition. Also known as “factory fresh,” collectible cards in this condition may have a very slight variation, or there may be a little damage from handling or storing the cards, but you have to look very closely to notice.

If your collectible cards are in excellent condition, there may be a bent corner or some other minor problem. The descriptions of condition go down from there, to “fine” or “very good,” then “good” followed by “fair.” Fair condition presents collectible cards with severe creases or the corners worn off completely. The “poor” condition is the worst of all. Here you have a seriously damaged card and probably won’t have any remaining value in it at all. Only if it is a very rare card or a limited edition will it maintain any value at all.

Of course, you don’t want to end up with any of these lower conditions, but want your cards to stay at least in near mint condition. They will look great and at some time in the future should you wish to sell or trade them, you can get the best deal.

 

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9 Responses to “Care For Your Trading Card Games”

  1. rafiscocks on April 18th, 2010 3:22 pm

    Always reminded me of Solitaire.

    Cards are grouped into columns with regard to their suit/color (Like similar properties of Groups in the Periodic Table) and in a numerical order down each column (Like the Atomic Number). The Horizontal rows created in Solitaire also have the same numerical value (Like the Periods(Horizontal rows) in the Periodic Table).

    …hope this helps.

    Also, Dmitri Mendeleev, who created the Periodic Table loved card games and actually created the Periodic Table by making a card for each element and then trying to arrange these cards in a sensible manner.

  2. jou on May 9th, 2010 3:27 am

    are you kidding me?? its hilarious lol

  3. rhean on May 9th, 2010 2:12 pm

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  4. GeekInsight on September 15th, 2010 1:23 pm

    I separate card from board and have my card games on a different shelf. The card games go together based on what looks pretty – a purely aesthetic organization. It works because I only have about a dozen card games so a game is easy to find by site.

    Board games I put together by 'feel.' Heavier games (Tigris & Euphrates, Power Grid) go in a stack together. I put all the Settlers games and expansions in one pile. And party games, like Taboo and Guesstures, go on the bottom shelf. And I like box piles to have a bigger box on the bottom and get progressively smaller (I'm OCD like that).

    I guess that makes me a lumper.

  5. Ken Allan on September 30th, 2010 9:58 am

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  6. Swift Voyager on January 14th, 2011 2:23 am

    I can play Texas Hold-em on my cell phone against real people over the internet. It's not illegal to play card games for fake money.

    If you place limits on the amounts, then people will make unofficial side bets and circumvent your limits. If you give them the mini-game interface to play games of chance, then there will be gambling and you won't be able to limit the amounts.

    What's wrong with someone gambling away all their play money anyway? It seems like a non-issue to me.

  7. itsirk on April 30th, 2011 8:40 pm

    Now this is a story all about how
    my life got flipped; turned upside down;
    And I'd like to take a minute;
    just sit down, James;
    I'll tell you how I became the undisputed King of Card Games.

    In northeastern Africa, born and raised;
    in the palace was where I spent most of my days
    chilling out max and relaxin' all the while,
    or playing some card games right beside the Nile.
    When a couple of guys who were up to no good,
    starting making trouble in my neighborhood!
    I got in one little fight and the gods got scared;
    they said “You're moving in with Yugi and his Grandpa downstairs!”

    I wound up in Japan and things were less clear;
    like I couldn't kill folks for losing card games here!
    If anything, I could say that this place is lame;
    but I thought, “Nah forget it I'll play some card games!”

    I bought card game booster packs, seven or eight;
    and I yelled at the old man “Yo, Homes, smell ya later!”
    Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there
    to sit on my throne with my ridiculous hair!

  8. Rokashi on June 3rd, 2011 5:44 pm

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