Record Toploaders Provide Extra Protection for Your Favorite Vinyl

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Sports and trading card businesses have relied on Toploaders to protect, store, and display their most valuable cards for decades, but did you know that BCW Supplies now offers five sizes of Toploaders designed specifically for vinyl records?

Made from two layers of semi-rigid plastic reinforced with high-impact grade PVC along the edges, our Toploaders protect rare and valuable 12-inch and 7-inch records. Records slip securely into the top of each loader to offer maximum protection, prevent corner dings, and keep records and their jackets looking pristine. The clear plastic also makes these ideal for behind-the-counter wall or shelf displays.

Our Record Toploaders are available for 7-inch records and four subtly different sizes for 12-inch records. The PVC used in all BCW Toploaders contains no plasticizers or stearates and will not harm records or jackets in any way.

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Cardfight Vanguard Deck Tech – Tamayura

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By Serena L.

Stand up! Vanguard!

It’s Serena and I’m back with another Cardfight Vanguard Overdress format deck tech! This time around we’re taking a look at the Glitter who seeks the Fire Regalis, Tamayura. Tamayura is our first foray into Dragon Empire, but she brings a familiar style of play, particularly if you read our last article. Let’s get started!

Cardfight Vanguard Tamayura
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How to Prevent Your Sports Cards from Bricking

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By Sal Barry

Wayne Gretzky Pinnacle Card

Longtime collectors remember when sports cards started using a high-gloss protective coating in the early 1990s. This coating – known as UV coating – gave the cards like Fleer Ultra and Topps Stadium Club a slick, premium feel to them. Collectors loved it!. But this eventually led to a problem called “bricking.”

Bricking is when cards get stuck together in a stack resembling a brick. And once they brick, they are hard to unstick. Read on to learn why cards stick together, what to do if they brick, and how to prevent that from happening in the first place.

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The Basics of Playing and Protecting Star Wars Shatterpoint

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Star Wars Shatterpoint is a small-scale skirmish based miniatures game by Atomic Mass Games, focusing on powerful heroes and villains. Using a mix of characters and units, players fight over objectives to fill their side of the struggle meter. The game uses a mix of oversized cards and minis to play, along with a slew of accessories.

Darth Maul miniature from Star Wars Shatterpoint
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Cardfight Vanguard Deck Tech – Nightmare Dolls

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Stand up! Vanguard!

It’s Serena and it’s time for that next V format article I promised! This time we’re covering Nightmare Dolls, part of the Pale Moon Circus. This is what players would know as a ‘tribal’ strategy, or a deck built around a specific subtype of unit. In this case, all Nightmare Dolls are ‘Workeroids’. These living dolls utilize the Imaginary Gift markers for ‘Accel’. Like Bermuda Triangle’s Force markers, these are generated when you ride a grade 3 with the Accel symbol. However, the effect of the Accel markers are unique. There are two types of Accel markers, Accel 1 and Accel 2. Both let you generate new front row rear-guard circles! Accel 1 also gives the unit placed on this new circle 10k power on your turn. Accel 2 only gives them 5k, but you get to draw a card. Now, on to the profile!

Cardfight Vanguard deck in use
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Electrogenesis/Dynamotor Electric Pokemon Standard Deck Tech

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The Pokemon TCG, if you will excuse the pun, evolved over the years. What was once a top-tier, tournament winning deck is now easily swept aside. Part of this is due to power creep, but most is simply due to there being more options. There are two ways to handle this: continually tinker with your deck to make sure it remains viable, or make whatever you want because it sounds fun. I opted to do the latter.

Pokemon cards in play
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Oops, All Artifacts! Alela Combo Casual EDH Deck Tech

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Many commander players tune their decks, optimizing every aspect of play. Every weakness is covered, every strategy exploited, and no wasted space is allowed. This is not one of those decks. At its heart, the deck wants to cast artifacts to create Faerie tokens. This isn’t a win condition in and of itself usually, but it facilitates various paths to victory. As usual, you can find the decklist on Moxfield.

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Cardfight Vanguard Michu Deck Tech

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By Serena L.

Stand up! Vanguard!

It’s Serena again! Do you like robots, idols, or cannons? If you said yes to any of those questions, I have the deck for you! Michu is Lyrical Monasterio’s ride line based on the Glitter mechanic, which is a keyword mechanic with some support cards specific to it. With the exception of Lyrical Monasterio, all the Glitter decks actually feature cards of different Nations working together.

Cardfight Vanguard deck, sorted and spread out
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How To Collect And Store Vintage Postcards

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Postcard collecting is a popular hobby with a history that reaches back to the late 1800s. The first postcards entered the market in the late Victorian era as rewards for schoolchildren or promotional materials. The Smithsonian Institute published a short article on this history of postcards, which you can read on their website. Due to the wide range of styles and subjects, collectors tend to focus on one or two types, such as mailed postcards from the Edwardian era.

Spread of postcards in topload holders
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