Ramsey John2026-05-28T13:32:50+00:00I shuffled a home-printed prototype at a Hong Kong game café last year. The cards stuck, curled, and showed the back art under bright lights.
Two weeks later, I held a 310 gsm black-core POD sample of the same deck. It snapped cleanly, blocked light, and held up after a hundred shuffles.
That gap has narrowed fast. Indie
TCG creators can now get retail-grade cards without funding a 5,000-unit offset run.
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