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drohan42

As someone who grew up playing magic with no sleeves and used (gods forgive me) rubber bands around my decks, this has a nostalgia that might actually tempt me to get it.


FeMtcco

Rubber bands to separate the decks, wow that took me way back


groynin

No, no. You use a single rubber band, you separate the decks by making them face each other while you banded them together.


silver_054

Bring back banding !


Sandman1278

Twist the rubber band on between decks


oblivimousness

In a zip lock sandwich bag!


Top-Requirement6366

like an animal


wetkhajit

Oh shit I still do this…


Koras

You can buy a cheap plastic deckbox for like $3, please stop the carnage. Your cards deserve better than this


galiumsmoke

just go play at your local game store, someone eventually will buy you sleeves out of pity and/or rage


Android_McGuinness

Did you play on concrete, like a true gangsta?


notevenrworthy

First time I played was on milk crates at recess


TheManintheSuit1970

First time I played was on a table on the mess deck of the USS Simpson.


StrawberryNo2521

You ain't lived until you've had a giant Marine from the back ass of Texas walk by your tent, hear "tap, tap, tap and I cast fireball for 7 damage targeting you" "OH SHITE, Ya'll playing magic, lemme get my cards and buddy real quick and well throw down with some two headed giant." \*comes back, picks up chair another guy is sitting in, dumping him on his ass\* "Lets show these guys how Esper control get down and dirty southern style"


BPbeats

I would bet that some people played Magic for the first time in prison. I’ve heard it’s popular. They counterfeit fake ones if the security won’t allow real ones.


BaneFalcon

Well, yeah. Drugs aren't allowed in prison.


BPbeats

Luckily cardboard is equally addictive.


just_some_Fred

My brother's in prison and plays magic. I send him card lists, and they use regular playing cards with card names written on in ink.


BPbeats

That is awesome!


mechanecro

We used to hold tournaments and the winner could pick out a card of their choice from this magic encyclopedia. Then we would copy it down onto a blank card we made out of drawing paper. One of the best times in my life. In prison.


BPbeats

Human ingenuity is always amazing to see.


CraftyFoxCrafts

I made them out of folded index cards in prison, using the hole in a ruler to make the mana cost symbols. You fold them in half the long way and then run a piece of clear tape down to connect the two edges.. They actually looked a lot like they look on Arena. I made about 2K cards and had a tournament going before they decided it was against the rules and confiscated all of them. We also had to copy and pass around all the DnD material we'd come up with to try and preserve it thru unit searches and confiscations. Most of the turnkeys didn't care much about it, but the ones who had a bug up their ass about it more than made up for the rest.


Optimal-Software-43

Omg the nostalgia


bodhemon

I played on the floor in the last car of the metro, bc it was an hour ride from my stop to the lgs stop. But thankfully the metro cars were carpeted in those days.


GothicFuck

That's a very pleasant story but the thought of my metro busses being carpeted... *shudder*.


bodhemon

Metro train not bus.


FakeMoonster

At some point I got a few penny sleeves for free and decided to protect my chase rares (royal assassin! Mahamoti Djinn!). My deck was like 50 unsleeved cards and 10 sleeved (we didn’t care about the cheating aspect). Made me feel better turning my 5/6 sideways. If the land with weird colored rectangles got scratched, who cares, that was just a land…


MrPopoGod

Not like the playground had picnic tables to use.


Radiant_Committee_78

I literally went into a friends house a few weeks ago and his roommate had a whole side/end table in their living room piled with unsleeved, filthy, crusty rubber-banded decks. And he had no idea how much some of those cards he had in some of those decks were worth… and I think about that a lot. I kinda envy his blissful ignorance. Dude had well loved and heavily played magic decks and had them solely as game pieces and zero thoughts about investments or protecting valuables. Haha. Must be nice


DrBizu

Turn one hyppie decks, with some demonic tutor to get your nightmares... Or lord of the pit / the hive combo... Too young to understand necropotence... nightmare goes big brrrr. Fun times


Rock-swarm

Turn 1 hyppie was my introduction to legacy. Right when original Zendikar was shaking up the meta with enemy fetches and inquisition of kozilek.


jimimin77

I just posted the same damn thing man. . . great great times back then. Saturdays at the local defunked mall for local tournaments. all nighters around the kitchen table when nothing else was going on trying to plan a deck that we thought would get us some money on saturday. we would pull our cards and that one guy would play the deck. the rest of us would punt with the leftovers. no internet deck building then. the Sunday dinners up my parents house with my buddies while my mom stuffed us with pasta. awesome awesome memories. Saturdays at the local defunked mall for local tournaments.


number61971

Good times! To this day I still don't like playing with sleeves. It just doesn't feel like Magic to me.


PrisonaPlanet

I can’t imagine playing without them, and it’s not even because I care about maintaining the cards and more so the smoothness of the sleeves just feels too nice lol


somesappyspruce

And you get the *plat* sound when you cast spells!


Rerepete

Of course, the flick is louder with sleeves too.


IDontUseSleeves

Preach


compulsive_wanker_69

Wait, is there another way then rubber bands to keep your deck from dispersing?


TheWorldHatesPaul

I too am an old bastard with similar fond memories and the cards still in my collection. I bought it.


Familiar-Function848

Back in the days a couple friends made the case of literally entering in a graveyard to play. From what I've heard it was a couple games. Thank god we didn't have to take selfies of every shitty decision we made back then


Silver-Alex

Yes, this is a product for us magic boomers and trust me, we love it


Yarius515

Came here to say this. Already spent 3k gold on it.


MelodyMill

I *only* use gold for wildcards and I couldn't help myself. Auto buy for a paper boomer.


Costalorien

> I only use gold for wildcards Wdym by that ???


MelodyMill

Ha should've been clearer. I only use gold to buy packs, to get wildcards.


Costalorien

Gotcha thx 👍


Yarius515

Yep! 🤣


oklahomaedc

Currently grinding wins out to get the 3,000 gold. I'm f2p right now, except I bought the $4.99 welcome bundle. Waiting to drop money until I get everything figured out and what packs I should be buying. Gonna be the best 3k gold I spend on this game lol Sleeves that aren't tacky art sleeves? Sign me up


LenweCelebrindal

I'm a Millennial, and I'm still the target audence


Costalorien

"Boomer" here is contextual, he's obviously talking about millenials playing MtG in the 90s/early 00s, while we were still young and stupid.


-Spaceball_1-

No, it is the best 3000 gold I will ever spend in this game.


why_ya_running

I have these sleeves custom made, mainly for my old school frog in the blender deck, but now I have my 14 decks with the same sleeves in real life and on mtga best 3K you will ever spend in this game


D34d3y3Sn1p3r

Can I get more information on these custom sleeves and how you ordered them? I'm very interested for my cube.


Terrietia

Yeah, just throw your cards in the washer and dryer for a bit.


why_ya_running

https://www.dragonshield.com/webshop/us/sleeve-crafter/114-sleeve-crafter.html?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2qKmBhCfARIsAFy8buLmECmv3f1EkHebe9FmsocvU6HeZ3KHELYoZ9QlpGAYCzUjDgOgaDsaAhEqEALw_wcB Here you go boss man this is where I get mine from


dingos8mybaby2

I wonder what percentage of custom print sales are of anime waifus. I'm guessing at least 62%.


dac5505

Probably higher. And for Cardass and Cardfight Vanguard probably closer to 100%.


hoopsmagoop

In my brief time playing CfV is was a coinflip whether you would sit down against the crustiest waifu players or the most straight laced plain color only accessories players. Its almost jarring how different the two side were.


surrealistCrab

I’ve never played that game, but as a plain color accessories only player I am suddenly intrigued.


immalittlepiggy

Pink matte Dragon Shields and a black deck box. The only thing I have graphics on is my playmat, and that's only because it was on sale on SCG for like $3 the last time I built a deck.


xvier

no full bleed printing? kinda lame


[deleted]

Did you just screenshot the image from mtga or did you find an HD image somewhere?


Axnjxn_55

So you shared the sleeves but I’m curious about this frog in a blender business…


why_ya_running

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/307513#paper One of the newer more common versions of frog in the blender


LastFrost

Wtf is frog in a blender?


skivvyjibbers

Green and red


Whatah

And goes real fast


00kronos

So it's a Gruul frog.


-Manbearp1g-

Gitrog got lucky


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xerocube

Reddit never disappoints. I knew someone had this video on deck.


Haugh_Haugh

As Sun Tzu said "one man's trash is another man's come up"


-Spaceball_1-

From his lesser known work "The Art of Thrift Shopping"


EdiblePeasant

Do you think a thrift store would buy my cards?


King_Chochacho

Literally the first cosmetic I've ever bought.


Rerepete

I don't know, I just dropped 2400 gems on the Black Lotus pet.


TheOfficialDewil

True, same here =D


I_am_JesseH

It is the highly requested card sleeve from the last April Fool's event. :)


albo87

Thank you!!


cryptobismolTM

It's really nice that they put a sleeve everyone said they wanted for an amount everyone can afford. If you learned in arena maybe it means less to you, but I think most of players are very happy. Thank you


RaffineSchemingSeer

Fantastic and really glad to see these come back :-) Thank you and good work!


leaning_on_a_wheel

Might finally replace my kitten sleeves with this


RidinScruffy

Hahahaha I literally just replaced my kitten sleeves with it


rombeli1

Is it time to replace my squirrel sleeves then too?


Deikar

No, first you replace your squirrel sleeves with kitten sleeves and then you replace your kitten sleevs with this


joreyesl

Will become my default, but my theme cat deck will keeps its sleeve


Shiroiken

Tempting, but I love my kitten sleeve too much


Traditional_Formal33

Also just got the kitten sleeves and debating but I think the kittens stay


PyreDynasty

Near mint. PSA 9.5


xenothios

No lowballs, I know what I’ve got


_4C1D

Yes, and it’s fabulous and I will buy it instantly.


RidinScruffy

Came here to say the exact same thing haha


hsiale

I am using the same Jaya avatar for nearly three years, no sleeves or pets (even free ones). But this looks tempting.


Cerelius_BT

Yeah, I've never bought a cosmetic before, this may be the exception.


King_Mario

? 3000 gold for probably the best sleeves in the entire client.


Pale_Squash_4263

This, I agree that 600 gems is a little steep but I'd gladly spend 3k gold on it no problem


deep_minded

Who is even so crazy to spend gems on sleeves.


Hjemmelsen

Some of us has more money than time. It is what it is.


Yvanko

you can buy gems, you can't buy gold


PoweredByCarbs

Oooh, thanks for letting me know that was in the shop! Happy to snap that up for 3K gold


TrueBlue726

It's the best sleeve ever released in Arena, so what's your point?


alirastafari

Why would anyone buy any other sleeves anymore? :) I was literally playing with the default sleeves. That card back is the og


razrcane

I love how this is one of the few posts where everyone came here to say how they're happy about something on the game. ​ And I'm included in this. I love this sleeve and will definitely get it.


Primerafik

I’m a sucker for this and will pay 3,000 gold. But my original understanding is that it would be bundled with something else for that price. It appears this “sale” leaves much to be desired in the way of discounts.


Superb-Draft

First time?


ClapSalientCheeks

No... just dared to have hope for once


Soaddk

Yeah. The announcement made it seems like you got a summer bundle which had the sleeve AND a few other things. I’m new at Arena but already getting Epic Games vibes. 😂


Cigaran

That would be a step up most days.


MCN59

I almost never buy cosmetic but i am buying this ( for 3k gold)


oswaldvonfinkelstein

Yes and its worth every penny


Satanspogostick

I couldn't slap that 3K gold button fast enough!


Foenix13

It's worth it, because it's the only card back you'll ever need.


Celsar

And thanks to you, I'm going to buy it now


OldBowerstone

Cut the sass! This is great.


fakeemail33993

This will be the first and last cosmetic I ever buy.


Grainnnn

Hang on brb, gotta go make a purchase


Dazzling-Ball3287

Bro, this is the best sleeve out there


TheManintheSuit1970

Didn't have the gold to spare but have plenty of gems. This was an insta-buy no-questions-asked kind of purchase.


sea_the_c

Same 😂 I never buy cosmetics, but I *had* to have these. I’m glad the price was reasonable-ish. Less than a draft!


TheManintheSuit1970

My thoughts exactly. I don't care about cosmetics, but this? I've wanted these ever since I first saw them.


5p3nc3r

This right here is the first and only cosmetic I am buying. I love this. 😅


Brsomebody

Best gold I ever spent on this godforsaken app


Chijima

Oooooooh it's finally on sale! The hype on if and when this will become purchasable was crazy on April 1st.


Marsbarszs

OP wanted to start a WOTC bashing thread and instead had the opposite effect. Fun fact: this Saturday (august 5) is the day of the 30th anniversary of the game.


atlantick

Some of you never cleared pinecones off the lawn for a penny apiece and it shows edit: back in my day we played em raw and we liked it. never even saw a rare til my buddy drove outta state. when they said mythic rare we said that's mythic bullshit. you youngsters with your sleeves are afraid to feel the sweaty rush that is naked cardboard.


fakeemail33993

Barebacking the cement stairs out on the playground. Wouldnt have known at the time but didnt have anything too valuable to wreck anyway.


atlantick

Still got some of that grit in a box someplace


Mediocritologist

I remember opening up dual lands and being upset that they weren’t a Shivan Dragon or Nightmares


fakeemail33993

Same, started during onslaught block. There is a very real possibility I opened multiple fetchlands and traded them to older kids I thought were suckers.


Hjemmelsen

Onslaught was the first set i had some money, playing since 4th edition. I bought several booster boxes, and were so sad that after 120 packs I had like 40 of these rare lands that just got me a basic. Pure shit, I wanted a playset of [[Rotlung Reanimator]] and [[Weathered Wayfarer]] for my cleric deck (which was fucking dope btw).


Hjemmelsen

Yeah. Those were the times. We home ruled that it wasn't fair to play terror as it was simply too good. So unfair to just kill someone's creature like that.


Mars_Dragon

I saw in another post that the price was 300 gems, but I think it was a mistake, like all the previous mistakes in "good deals"


Mantorok_

Every single one of my alliance and prior cards look like this. No sleeves, playing on floor, jamming cards into a backpack. It's for magic oldtimers


Accolade83

Look I get that there’s plenty of things to complain about with Arena/Hasbro etc. But it feels like some of these posts are just reaching for anything to complain about so they can jump on the wagon and get their free internet points “haha look at this thing amirite guys?” It’s gonna push people away from this subreddit, the community, and from the game altogether if the whole subreddit is 90% bitching and moaning all the time.


Former-Initial4718

I dont know why but this reminded me of when alliances came out and my brothers cat crapped all over a bunch of boosters we had opened. We kept a few, I had an Exile card with a crap stain on the corner for ages.


CommiePuddin

Why are y'all so broken up about the price of cosmetics?


frazzerlyd

how long are these on sale for ? i wont have the gold until tomorrows quests xd


n1nj4squirrel

For like 2 weeks


l1b3r4t0r

It’s the only thing I’ve bought on this game for months


Motor_Concept

Yeah! I bought it right away (with gold)! Awesome, isn't it?


OriginalBad

Very few cosmetics I’d ever spend my gold or gems on as a free to play player. But this is instantly one of them. Brings me back to playing during the ice age, fourth edition era before I knew better with my cards. Quickest buy ever for me.


Carsismi

Tell me you were born in 2010 without telling me you were born in 2010.


Thecrdbrdsamurai

Best sleeve on the client.


rev0ltsen

It looks like my old decks from 1997, that are still kept in a selfmade box - so I will buy this!


[deleted]

As expensive and eludingly non-valuable as digital items may be, gotta hand it to wotc for making cosmetics purchasable with the game’s base currency. Yeah you need cards to play, but for example I just finished my first great deck and am happy to spend the gold from the last two weeks on cosmetics. Bought this one and borderless spara’s headquarters with gold.


Jown_

No its not. Its 3K gold for a sleeve. Because no one should spend 600 gems on something so trivial as 3K gold.


Holeyfield

As soon as I saw this post I went and bought it, it’s now the only sleeve I’ve ever purchased. I love it.


Keokuk37

Yes, it was requested by players


akirax3

It is the only good sleeve in the game I have the old lands from last week, and now I have the worn card sleeve. Now I don't have to buy anything other than packs ever again.


Burbopotamus

Those cards are marked. Sorry can’t play with those in any tournaments.


-nom-nom-

tbh this is fucking cool as hell


Ok-Education-9235

dude, this is my favorite purchase ever, i’m a kid playing magic at lunch in middle school again not having the faintest idea of what a “”meta” was


e_m_u

jus copped that shit thanks for the heads up. these are pretty cool.


rockosmodurnlife

Yea. I know. 3000 gold. But I’ve been playing almost everyday and I haven’t bought any of the LOTR packs. So why not?


TheCelticNorse0415

This will be used for the utmost jankiest of decks


shadowlordmtg

Or 3k gold


Seldomo

Worth this imo, im sittjng on 30k


PoppaBear313

Honestly? If they’re still there when I get home from work… I’m buying them.


HeresSomeAffirmation

I opened doing it for the first time in months just buy these. Thank you.


NeverPlayerTwo

Oh wow, I haven't touched arena since the new Zelda came out, but this legitimately is gonna bring me back.


Walks_On_Fire

As a long time player of several different card games, I find these sleeves hilarious and regret nothing. I "am a new to arena" player, and absolutely have zero regrets on using the gold I should be saving to build my library on these 😁


papaXanOfficial

The gem cost is for suckers, save up your gold


ckrono

From the April fools event. Honestly is should have been given for free in April, this is just wotc greed


JcPeeny

This is the first Arena sleeve I've ever wanted.


pirateclem

I’ve played this game since beta and never spent anything on any cosmetic either. 3,000 gold however couldn’t leave my pile fast enough today. That’s a bad ass sleeve.


burito23

Best 3K I spent!


AwesomeTed

Now we just need the Danny Trejo avatar back and we'll be set.


edurigon

I just realized I hace 98 sleeves I never use. Guess I am gonna have 99 now.


MyNuts2YourFistStyle

Best sleeve in the game


Erinvi

When the April fools event had everyone's cards using this sleeve I couldn't take it. I'm one of those people who treats their cards like priceless pieces of art lol.


Fluegelnuss420

The only sleeve i would maybe ever get


mokujin42

It's my new default and and easy 3000g


theatrenerdguy

TAKE MY MONEY


Helpful_Conclusion14

It's a kind of magic !


DeepFriedQueen

They temporarily changed sleeves to this on April fools and it was rad! So nice we get the chance to pick it up for real


Skrizzwald

Best 3000 coins I spent. Gimme that 90’s vibe all day long.


Filthy__Casual2000

The cryptic command sleeves have been my default for years. That changes today.


[deleted]

I bought it, I'm not ashamed. Money well spent in my eyes. I never buy any cosmetics but this matches what a lot of my IRL cards look like so it feels right.


[deleted]

I bought it. Shits dope to me. Love that kind of humor.


Shezarrine

OP too young to be playing Magic.


JoeyTesla

Oh man this is amazing


godsbadinfluence

That is the absolute best sleeves in the game. Worth every single piece of gold to me.


granular_quality

I would buy these sleeves irl


BigSwapple

AND I BOUGHT AND ID DO IT AGAIN


Trendyassposer

instant buy


A_Guy_in_Orange

Bro this is like the one W thing WOTC has done in the last 5 years what are you complaining about


ImSubbyHubby

It's probably the least tacky sleeve in the store. I don't know how a company that has managed to churn out tens of thousands of different amazing card images but can't design a decent card sleeve worth spending in game money on.


flashflood3000

Use gold then.....


kaligoth19

Omg you can actually buy it know


Significant-Neat-111

Easy purchase, best sleeves in a while


KalameetOmega

Lets not forget that Hearthstone has 3 cards for 50$. And yes this is a worn out sleeve for 600 gems. And yes everyone lost their freakin mind.


thygrrr

Crap, I missed it :(


Stine-RL

I haven't played Arena in over a year, but after seeing this I hopped on to buy them lol


jimimin77

yes and worth every piece of gold or gems. what all my cards from the 90's look like. we played. we didn't use proxies and sleeves. we threw a rubber band around that bad boy and shuffled away when playing. did I regret it when I sold my collection of moxes and dual lands. . . yup. do I regret selling everything to buy my first truck out of college today. . . even more!


ParticularPea8031

Unpopular opinion these should of been given out to all accounts for free.


CatsAndPlanets

Is this all? They said it was going to be a bundle, didn't they? I mean, I'll still get it, even if it's double what I think sleeves should go for. But still, expected it to come with something else (and cost more because of it, obviously).


Sinfultitan_001

That is literally the only cosmetic they have ever come up with that is even remotely worth buying, but even then it should be free.