Development
Once collectible card games became popular after the advent of Magic: The Gathering, new technology was needed for two reasons. First of all, existing devices were not made with shuffling in mind: rigid top-loaders are effectively impossible to shuffle, and traditional card sleeves break easily during shuffling. Card sleeves also became all the more important because of Magic tournaments: cards that were worn were considered to be marked, and could not be used in tournament decks. Furthermore, the card sleeves themselves were potentially a marking device: one drawback of traditional card sleeves was that they were typically slightly nonuniform, and therefore a potential way of marking cards in a deck on their own. Furthermore, the card sleeves themselves could become marked through wear. (This was a major problem with traditional card sleeves: they were typically a somewhat loose fit, and would develop creases at the sides.)
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