https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/3/16/prizes-worth-fighting-for/

This article mentions that "The alternate art cards in this kit are produced via FFG's In-House Manufacturing and may appear slightly different in color and texture from the game's other cards. To be tournament legal, these cards must be sleeved with opaque or art sleeves.". How long has this been a thing in X-Wing?

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/3/16/prizes-worth-fighting-for/

This article mentions that "The alternate art cards in this kit are produced via FFG's In-House Manufacturing and may appear slightly different in color and texture from the game's other cards. To be tournament legal, these cards must be sleeved with opaque or art sleeves.". How long has this been a thing in X-Wing?

Probably a lazy copy-paste from an article for a card game in which being able to differentiate the cards without seeing the face could be an advantage.

I see no reason for it affect X-wing the cards are basically a reminder of stuff.

Blind-listing confirmed for X-wing.

Dang it. Now I have to get card sleeves for my cards. Great.

Dang it. Now I have to get card sleeves for my cards. Great.

Trust me when I say sleeves are a good idea anyway. Wait till someone spills a beer or you head to a game store in the rain or [insert reason] means you need sleeves! Also general wear and tear will take care of the cards eventually without sleeves.

Plus the art sleeves are awesome!

Opaque or Art? not quite sure why..... seems like a mistake.

Opaque or Art? not quite sure why..... seems like a mistake.

It's just a lazy copy-paste from FFG's rules for card games like Game of Thrones. If you're drawing from a deck and one card is different than the rest, you know what you're about to draw and it gives you an unfair advantage. So, if you want to use those cards in your decks, your entire deck has to be in card sleeves to eliminate that advantage.

It's exactly the same rule that MTG has for example.

For Xwing though, it serves absolutely no purpose because there aren't any promotional damage deck cards.

I've been playing for 2 years without sleeves without issue, seems like overfussy CCG nonsense to me. My cards haven't even begun to show wear. I was wondering if the sleeving thing was lazy copy-pasta as I believe it applies in Netrunner for Alt-Arts, it would quite severely reduce my perceived value of card rewards from the tournament packs.

It is a good idea to sleeve your cards. I like it better than the option of proxying in games like MTG where you have entire decks of proxyied card and the rest are kept in sleeves in order to preserve the resale value in the secondary market.

Opaque or Art? not quite sure why..... seems like a mistake.

It's just a lazy copy-paste from FFG's rules for card games like Game of Thrones. If you're drawing from a deck and one card is different than the rest, you know what you're about to draw and it gives you an unfair advantage. So, if you want to use those cards in your decks, your entire deck has to be in card sleeves to eliminate that advantage.

It's exactly the same rule that MTG has for example.

For Xwing though, it serves absolutely no purpose because there aren't any promotional damage deck cards.

It is a good idea to sleeve your cards. I like it better than the option of proxying in games like MTG where you have entire decks of proxyied card and the rest are kept in sleeves in order to preserve the resale value in the secondary market.

I only did this for money lands and I only played EDH

There's a notification on the FA core set recommending blue and yellow card sleeves for the cards in the set.

Ignored it myself and use clear sleeves on both card types. If some TO tells me to change them I'll just snort derisively and glare at them while I set up my ships.

There's a notification on the FA core set recommending blue and yellow card sleeves for the cards in the set.

Ignored it myself and use clear sleeves on both card types. If some TO tells me to change them I'll just snort derisively and glare at them while I set up my ships.

Wait, what? The sleeves themselves are clear. The packages are color coded by FFG so you buy the right size.

There's a notification on the FA core set recommending blue and yellow card sleeves for the cards in the set.

Ignored it myself and use clear sleeves on both card types. If some TO tells me to change them I'll just snort derisively and glare at them while I set up my ships.

Those indicators are for the size of the sleeves, not the color of sleeve.

FFG color co-ordinates the packaging of the sleeves based on size.

Yellow is mini-american and blue indicate standard american board game size cards.

For Xwing though, it serves absolutely no purpose because there aren't any promotional damage deck cards.

Yet. Well and hopefully ever, because that would be silly.

Oh right.

Wouldn't know having never seen FFG sleeves.

Sounds like a mistake, easy to make when you're updating ten FAQs especially if you're not very familiar with the games themselves/are tired.

Sounds like a mistake, easy to make when you're updating ten FAQs especially if you're not very familiar with the games themselves/are tired.

Or there is a single template that is filled in with the proper details.

Given that I can barely make it to normal X-wing games with my schedule, much less championships, I just hope that those mine tokens and Hera go up on eBay for semi-reasonable prices.

Obivously a lazy copy paste from the LCG rules.