Sports Card Supplies, Sleeves & More

There are three types of protective holders you should always purchase:

• Soft sleeves for organizing and sorting your basic cards.
• Hard toploaders for storing higher-value cards.
• Advanced magnetic holders for preserving your most valuable cards.

For more information, check out our guide: All the Supplies You Need for Your Sports Cards.

It depends on how you clean them. There’s a fine line between cleaning and altering a card. Altering it will result in a grading service rejecting it and returning it labeled as an altered card, which decreases its value significantly.

If you store your cards using our sports card supplies, you shouldn’t need to clean them. If you do decide to clean them, use a microfiber cloth to gently remove any residue.

For more info, check our guide: How to Clean Sports Cards (And What Not to Do).

You can’t go wrong with either brand! Both make top-quality trading card supplies that will protect your cards. For standard sleeves and toploaders, simply choose the brand that looks and feels best to you. For high-value cards that need the strongest protection possible, you can’t beat Ultra PRO’s One-Touch magnetic holders.

Even when using sleeves and toploaders to protect them, you should still be mindful about where you store them. Ideally, look for a cool, dry place to put them. Keep them away from direct light, extreme temperatures, and humidity, and avoid storing them in a basement or another area where moisture may be present.

You don’t necessarily need to place all of your sports cards in sleeves or toploaders, unless you have the budget and storage space to do so. We recommend researching the cards in your collection and protecting those that are already valuable or have the potential to increase in value.