A card gets damaged quietly. It doesn't take an accident: humidity, direct light, the weight of a stack of other cards or a corner bent during a trade is enough. Protection accessories are not an extra for fussy collectors — they are the difference between a card that keeps its value and one that loses it.

Ultra Pro toploaders

Toploaders are rigid clear PVC holders, 3" x 4" (7.6 x 10.2 cm), designed for standard-size cards (63.5 x 88.9 mm) up to 35 pt thick. They are the de facto standard for storing, displaying, trading and shipping a single card safely.

You'll find them fully clear or with a coloured border — white, black, blue, red, green, purple — handy for organising your collection by game, set or value without opening every holder.

How to use them

A toploader should be used together with a card sleeve, never on its own: the sleeve stops the card from rubbing against the PVC every time it goes in and out. It is the same combination grading companies use before encapsulating a card.