Character guard sleeves fit a standard sleeve in the same way a standard sleeve fits a perfect fit sleeve, so you can use them to get triple sleeving going, if you're so inclined. KMC also has a line called "character guard" sleeves (and I believe UltraPro has something similar under a different name), which are clear and are designed to fit a standard sleeve inside them. They can be a solid color or have a picture (or, less commonly, they can be clear), they can be smooth or textured. Standard sleeves are the regular card sleeves you see all the time. The KMC perfect fits even have instructions to that effect on the packaging.) (When putting a card in multiple sleeves, standard practice is to reverse the orientation of the card relative to the sleeve for each additional sleeve used. You might confuse penny sleeves with perfect fit sleeves (KMC and UltraPro both produce them, and I believe they both are called perfect fit on the packaging), which are clear just like penny sleeves, but are designed to perfectly fit a MtG-sized card, and then fit inside "standard" card sleeves, to allow for traditional double sleeving. You're likely to have a store put a singles purchase inside one or more penny sleeves, to help avoid scratches and the like, but they're not generally ideal for long-term storage IMO. Penny sleeves don't generally fit into other sleeves they're loose-fitting and larger than most other sleeve types. It's tough to find penny sleeves cheaper but you can realize pretty good savings for the inners. About two or three years ago, I started buying my inner and penny sleeves in bulk every 9-12 months. I buy roughly 150-200 bags of penny and inner sleeves to cover MtG, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and My Little Pony. I never thought about that so I'm not entirely sure if that's right. I maintain around 600 cards in deck sleeves. I figure not quite half of my MtG collection is sleeved in penny sleeves, with and without inners. I reuse the outter deck sleeve to keep everything consistent for my decks. when I reconfigure a deck, the card and inner sleeve gets transferred to a penny sleeve and it gets dropped into a box. What I don't do is unsleeve the inner sleeve. So if I pop in any Force of Wills, the entire deck is double sleeved, even the jank 0.02 card. Higher priced decks get double sleeved and deck sleeved, regardless of the individual value of the cards. I buy a specific brand other than Ultra Pro because UP tends to be very inconsistent in their cuts. Unlike some in my play group, I sleeve all my decks, always. I sleeve the majority of my cards in penny sleeves.
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