Why I Had to Stop Using My Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Sleeves 

Better title: Dzeef rambling about sleeves just so he can flex with his ultimate rare cards

Dzeef purposefully devalues the price of the sleeves so he can get them for cheaper

"Why everyone should buy anime waifu sleeves"

Not a sleeve review channel

Just make every card out of stainless steel

Try dragon shield sleeves

Dragon shields bruh. Super durable and prevent cards from warping And the cards dont ride up

Sleeves are prohibited in competitive ygo tournaments. If you watch the anime, nobody uses sleeves. Coincidence? I dont think so. Commenters dont understand Ygo sleeves when?

no dragon shields? i live and die by those, my all time fave in matte.

according to these comments; I should really try dragon shield

Dragon shield mattes are nice. Very durable and only the back is matte and textured

Imo best sleeves are dragon shields (either style) or ultimate guard UX sleeves. KMC Hyper Mats are great too

RIP: A Trick Up the Sleeve (Arkana's Duel Links Skill).

Just use dragon shield mattes, they are matte only on the back, front is clear and shuffle feel is amazing

I recently discovered Ultimate Guard sleeves and I love them so much. They just feel right. Ultra Pro is great but I don't think I want to go back.

Happy to see I’m not the only one who’s crazy about this kind of thing. For my collection that I’ve been building up, I’ve been using the KMC sleeves with the perfect fits inside. 1st batch of inner sleeves I got though were cut short that they just barely cover the card. Been fine since, but I still want to resleeve those first ones.

It just hits me that this is such a nerdy first world problem

The original KMC Hypermat and Dragonshields is what me and my boys use and we literally never have issues. I dont know if Ultrapro sleeves have changed but we stopped using them after all the ones we had started to split.

I use ultra pros too same ones as you. The white ultra pros have such a spot in my heart bc the old ones with the logo in the top corner, was like THE pro sleeve to use back in the day

Thanks for cutting down on the ads man, this is much better. I often pass on watching your stuff because the ads are so obnoxious and I don’t have time to keep skipping over and over while I’m working.

Hyper mat sleeves have never let me down, and they last a lot longer than any other brand I've used, they also feel very nice

Ultimate guard popped up and just took the market by storm. i cannot wait until they make japanese/ygo sized Katana sleeves

This was very helpful. As a player starting to get back into Yugioh and making decks again. I don't want anything that could get me in trouble, if I decided to go to a tournament.

Dzeef, do you have any experience with Dragon Shield sleeves? I'm no pro, but I love them, think they feel good, and the colours/patterns are great! I would recommend them, worth a look at the very least :)

Dragon’s Shield is my personal choice for all of my sleeping needs. Give it a try! That or Ultimate Guard. Depends on whether you want a more protective sleeve or a better shuffle.

I love the Ultimate Guard sleeves because the don’t stick together after a long time of playing and they don’t get dirty as fast as other sleeves

Dude, get yourself some dragon shield sleeves. Dragon shields for Yu-Gi-Oh use to be terrible, but they've made a lot of changes over the last couple years and they are legitimately the best sleeves out there. I love them.

i used to use ultrapro because they were what everystore haved, was cheap and i really dont care but i had too many problems and changed to UltimateGuard and i love them they are really smooth and durable i have ones one year old and still use them for pre realese, drafts, etc and they are still good

Do you find that ultra pros have bends at the back after some play? I am not having this issue with KMC or dragon

Hey Doug, as someone who doesn’t go to tournaments, I was wondering if you could a look back at the time change and discuss your thoughts on it now? Seeing as you’ve been to quite a few tournaments with the new time rules, do you notice it having a major effect on you? Have you drawn a lot more games, on average, since the rule has been in place? I would be really interested in another video about it.

How often do you find you have to replace a deck’s sleeves because of dust collecting inside them? My Blue-Eyes deck seems to gather dust quite quickly (despite, ironically, the fact I use that deck the most) so I end up changing the sleeves all too frequently and discarding the old sleeves which seems really wasteful. :/

yea I started to have this problem all the time, so I switched to dragon shield matte and non matte. the front side is always clear the shuffling feel is just different. I use matte on my main deck and non matte for the extra. Works beautifully

Kmc hyper matte mini has really let me down as of late. Ive loved and used the sleeves for several years. The newer sleeves feel cheaper and are easier to break and split. I've noticed a lot of warping and miscut. Even worse, I've noticed I can see the back of the cards through the white sleeves which I couldn't before. This change happened within the past few months and so I use dragon shield now

Thoughts on Player's Choice? Personally those are my favorite as of right now. Also glad to see someone finally talking about sleeve issues, this is definitely something that needs to be addressed.

I still have these sleeves that I love that I got when I was in middle school (Back in like 05 I think). They were like a shiny red color and had this grainy texture look to them. Sadly they got worn and the edges frayed from so much use. I decided to stop using them because of that, but they lasted me a long time.

I use ultra pros as well and have noticed all of the same things as you. I got some more of the eclipse ones because even though they are a bit foggy they are the nicest ones to play with in my experience. I managed to pick them up for a third of the normal retail price too!

UltraPro always like splits in half after a few months for me, and are often miscut between two packs of sleeves. In my experience at least.

Does YGO official events still ban double sleeving? I always found that to be a silly rule that would fix so many sleeve issues.

reminds me of one of my old decks where i can always find my super rare polymerization because the sleeve is ever so slightly larger than the rest despite the fact that all the sleeves came from the same pack (ultra-pro non-matte red)

Try out Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves ...Outstanding! And a bit thicker on the fron which is pretty good for protection.

Tolarian Community College would be proud

Basketball Player: "I really appreciate my time with this team, it's been a good run and after several seasons I am switching to a team that can better accommodate my play style" Yu-Gi-Oh! Player: 0:00

Honestly I've had this same issue before deciding to swallow my pride on the matte finish and use eclipse sleeves. I also like that you can't see through them at all because some non matte sleeves are a little translucent through the back.

Yeah there has been some sort of manufacturing issue. There is an OTS near me that got a box of the regular Ultra Pro non-matte sleeves, the cheapest ones, and there were matte sleeves mixed in. So they have a couple of issues going on.

Commenters don't understand card sleeves.

Yeah I recently started doing deck profiles for my channel and I bought a couple eclipse matte sleeves and noticed the foggy thing you were talking about especially with newer cards having more holo than older ones it just looks weird

The blue sleeve at the left, so they are non matte ultra pro sleeve is that right ?

I have that issue too. UltraPro is what I’ve been using since the beginning of the card game, but lately I noticed that the sleeves have been very crude, there’s a noticeable downgrade in quality for me as well, but I still really like how they look when used, cards do look really foggy for most other brands, which can make cards a bit more of a pain in the ass to read. Really sucks that they’ve been slacking with their quality, because I absolutely love the color variety they offer.

Switched from UltraPro to Ultimate Guard while I was in Germany cuz that's just what they had available at the card shop and I havent gone back since. They are so good!

Try out Dragon Shields matte they might be a bit more expensive depending on where you live but it’s worth it never had a problem with them

Bushiroad makes really nice card sleeves with artworks for Cardfight Vanguard but they get stiff really quick unless you double sleeve which I hate doing so I stooped using them.

Eclipse sleeves are the ones that look like they should be on Pokémon cards right?

Yep. This is exactly why I stopped using Ultra Pro sleeves. The old Dragon Shields used to have this issue, but not anymore.

I also use the Ultimate Guard Supreme Sleeves. Later your gonna notice that the extra clear ones are going to get a lot of scratches on the clear side. It really catches the eye.

hey, can you check those UG sleeves, I had miscut with mine but it was with the height of the sleeve

I use Dragon Shield for my decks but all my spare Super Rare+ cards I usually keep in clear Ultimate Guard Sleeves. They're pretty slippery but they work pretty great. Where I'm at they're usually cheaper than Ultra-Pro sleeves too by like a buck, but stores hardly carry Japanese size of them. :/

Try some Dragon Shields!! They’re really tight so watch how you put the card in there! The matte is amazing but you really can’t do the yugioh grave spread all too well

Dude dragonshield matte are so nice try em I switched from ultra pro and ultimate guard to dragon shield and i don’t think I’ll switch back anytime soon

I 100% know what you mean with the miscut sleeves, I get this with ultimate guard sleeves and had it before with Ultra Pro sleeves likes 3 years ago, it is frustrating to have like 15 sleeves go to waste because of miscut and then your 2 packs of 50 sleeves you have 70 and not 100 which is kind of fine in the grand schemes of things since you only need 55 really but if you needed 75 for 60 main + side or 40 main + 15 side + extra you are kind of screwed. It is highly annoying to just throw away sleeves because they are miscut a lot.

I know the miscut thing was a common issue with early runs of Ultra Pro Eclipses. Personally, I'd recommend trying out Dragon Shield sleeves. While I'm not a fan of their standard-size sleeves for Magic, I love their smaller sleeves for Yugioh. They even have matte sleeves *without* a frosted front if you want the matte shuffle feel without the slight fogginess. Also I'm not surprised that Ultimate Guard has a line of sleeves that are basically just the old Ultra Pro sleeves, since they *also* just released a line that's basically just the old KMC Hyper Matt sleeves

Tbh ive being having the same issue with ultrapro sleeves. I like them a lot but I'm afraid I'll have to change brand

Are dragon shield sleeves too tight for the cards?

Speaking of cards floating to the top of sleeves. Ever since I’ve seen deck profiles from yugitubers I have noticed that nearly all of them always have their cards near the top of the sleeve and are rarely ever pushed all the way in. I’ve been trying to look for a reason for this, but I’ve had no luck. Is there a reason to not push your cards all the way to the bottom of sleeves?

I'd also say Dragon Shield's are what you're looking for, matte back, glossy front to show off the card/foil, and quality that has never strayed from amazing since i've been using them for atleast 10 years or so.

I thought I was nuts when I noticed this in one of my decks... I use the same sleeves, and a couple cards stick out like sore thumbs over the others.

Ultra pro are inconsistant, some packs of sleeves are miscut some arent, regardless of being eclipses or not. Dragon shield are the best although I have to say I had some issues lately due to the sleeves being too small for the cards, I mean the cards fit but you kinda have to force them in and it doesn't feel good at all, especially with the super slim and floppy European print cards. The only solution is to widen them up beforehand using 2 commons together, works perfectly but you shouldn't have to work on your sleeves after you buy them. Ultimate guard never gave me problems but the feel doesnt hold against dragon shields, but that's a matter of opinion

So when i buy new sleeves, i tend to buy 3 packages, one for main, one for side and cards iam experiementing with, and one just for backup in generall. So i came to the same issue, i used the one package for my main, perfectly fine, but the second package for side and experiements was completly miscut, every second card poked out and i can really see that being an issue

Players Choice is my favorite I have a couple packs got them at 6 but I usually find them at 12 but when the store near me get some they go real quick

As an avid user of Ultra Pro Eclipses, I am looking for an alternative since about a month ago. I have had, and used, the same set of sleeves on my main deck since I got back into Yugioh last June. They still shuffle, play, and feel great. But since they are so old, I want to make sure I don't get called on it for tournament play, I've been having to pick up a fresh set of sleeves recently. Compared to all the Eclipses I've picked up over the past year, the new sleeves are visibly different and the deck's core cards now standout from the new sleeves I've picked up since the turn of the year. Not only this, but for the first time, out of about 15+ sets of these sleeves, I have had multiple sleeves crack after only a month of use. This is insane in my mind when compared to the durability of the year old sleeves. I've been waiting for Ultimate Guard's new Katana Line of sleeves to come out in small size (Japanese size, as mentioned in the video) and will test those out before deciding on migrating my collection over to them or Dragon Shields. Hopefully Ultimate Guard can use this as an opportunity to take advantage of their competative's fault and capitalize in the premium sleeve market.

Try double sleeving. You can get fancy inner sleeves and generic outer sleeves to customize the feel and look independently from one another.

Have you tried Dragon Shield??

Glad you talked about this, since I know it isn't what gives more views, but its interesting tho

The Dragon shield matte sleeves are really good don't have the foggy problem with the clear plastic the cards to look pristine in them

As someone who has been using sleeves for a few years as well, I would really recommend Ultimate Guard as well. Up until now, I've used Ultra Pro matte sleeves since I don't mind the front display of the card looking a little frosted so long as they're readable and safe. Ultimate Guard however, just has better quality control in my experience and is better for my wallet.

Ultimate guard ux have been my go to sleeves for over a year now after I had a similar issue with ultra pros.

i love the non-matte sleeves as well. The foggyness just ruins the card color for me

How's Dragon Shield card sleeves?

I always used to use ultrapro when I played and never had any issues, but I recently came back into the game after 4 years and bought 2 packs of their new sleeves and have noticed the same thing right away. It's weird and frustrating

Don't know if you'll read this, but your experience with Ultra Pro is pretty interesting actually. I use the exact same sleeves you do, but none of mine are miscut. The ones I checked were from several different packs and bought over the last 6 months too. I do live in Europe though, so maybe that's a factor? I don't know where UP manufactures their sleeves and whether they have different sites. Maybe I'm just lucky.

There should be regulation sleeves that you have to use in tournaments. There are a few cards that go into your opponent's deck so as long as your opponent has different sleeves they can just activate something that shuffles their deck to make sure they don't draw the card (although these cards don't really see any play as far as I'm aware)

What about KMC perfect fit mini sleeves?

My Ultra Pro white sleeves also seem miscut too. It is only those ones tho. My other colors seem to be fine.

vindication. i've never had a problem with UP gloss sleeves, but one of my decks kept sliding to the top. and i realised the sleeves were like 1mm shorter than my other decks. its enough of a difference that my cards are almost always exposed at the top

Dragon shield matte sleeves are the best sleeves out there. Feel great shuffle great and unlike ultrapro they don't stick together,which can lead to "double draws" as well as the one you point out the sleeves tend to be bigger.

My only guess on Ultimate Guard not saying Yu-Gi-Oh on the box is because it could be used for different games with same-sized cards. Their website mentions it's compatible with Yu-Gi-Oh, DBZ, and Naruto. I imagine it could be compatible with some board games as well.

I had the same problem I have tried so many different sleeves and they all suck I have some really strange brands of sleeves coming in just to try them out

Dex protection sleeves are really nice too

I use Dragon Shield Sleeves, only about 10$ for 100 sleeves and they feel really nice and durable too.

I've had the same problem with the ultrapro sleeves.

If I can make any recommendation. I suggest you check out Dragon Shield.

I moved away from all the other sleeves and use dragon shield. I do still like the player choice sleeves white ones only.

I find myself using Dragon Shield specifically for Yugioh since the foils are just so pretty. Give them a shot if you find em

I just bought an ultra pro White pack of 60 small sleeves, but didn't have this issue, all perfectly sized. Guess I had luck

I love my UG almost 18 months and just 1 has been ripped, waiting for Eclipse Japanese size

the most dzeeff video on the channel

The matte sleeves are good for cutting down glare. It’s all preferences, mostly. Anything outside of their eclipse line tends to have that problem. The old dragon sleeves from 2006-2007 were awful when it came to inconsistency like those ultra pros and there were a lot of ultra pros that were backwards.

I say just use dragon shield there great they can be a bit hard to shuffle but there the most high quality sleeves I have used and I think you should try them

Only 1:30 into the video and I knew it was going to be ultra pro. I use to use them a lot for MtG as they were pretty cheap to pick up if I didn't bring any at a draft or sealed event. I had no issues with draft/sealed decks since they don't get played much if at all after the event. The few standard decks I built with them had several split sleeves after some use, to the point I always made sure to have a couple extra on me at any given time. I bought 2 or 3, 80 or 100 sleeve packs (i forget exactly how many sleeves, but enough to sleeve 200 cards or so) once to sleeve up a small cube and like a third of the sleeves or more were miss-cut to varying degrees of 1-2mm. It was kinda insane how inconsistent they were. Edit: lol yeah, exact same issue, horribly miss-cut sleeves.

i may be in the minority here but i actually enjoy the slightly tinted finish on the front of pro mattes. in multiplayer magic formats (where i use them most) it feels like a little extra protection against hand peelers.

Ultra Pro Eclipse is the best imo, best shuffle feel, but i indeed suffered from misscut, you must buy them from only one shop.