Imagine that you have just pulled a [BT5-112] Omnimon Zwart Defeat Alternate-Art from a box. Happily, you sleeved it up with your KMC Perfect Hard sleeve and placed inside your zipped binder (or your acrylic brick) and had a wonderful dream that night. A week later, you open your binder to find a slightly bent Zwart Defeat!
From different kinds of sleeves to the placement of your binder (vertically vs horizontally), topics surrounding on “how-to” or “the-best-way” to protect and store TCG cards have always been a thing in the TCG community. Today, we will look into one of the most crucial factors in storing TCG cards – the culprit behind the aforementioned story – humidity.
We will discuss on:
- Part 1: The things you need to keep humidity in check:
- A moisture absorber
- A tightly sealed storage box, where you will keep your cards with the moisture absorber
- A hygrometer
- Part 2: Humidity and cards
- How do DTCG cards react to different humidity? (With pics!)
- Can you unbend bent cards?
- What humidity is good for DTCG cards?
Excellent post, thanks for taking the time to share this, it has helped me a lot. I live in Costa Rica, a tropical country and it is tedious to see how my cads are folded with so much humidity.
I am considering buying a dehumidifier for my entire room but i don't know if it will have the same results, if it can control the humidity as well as in the storage box with the moisture absorber, what do you think is better?
by the way, sorry for the level of my English, I'm not good at all.
Hi, thanks for the reply! I would not suggest buying an electric dehumidifier if that's what you mean, since the cost will be relatively higher when compared to the reusable ones. Smaller ones are easy to control, some cards need dryer air to "straighten" them, while some just need slightly dry just to make sure it doesnt bend. The foiling changes to across BTs, it's hard to have one for all I think.
Cheers!