Guys, quick question. If I sleeve all the cards for each affiliation with a particular sleeve, will that hurt me if I play a deck with mixed objectives? For exmaple, lets say all my sith cards have Force Lightning sleeves, and all my Scum and Villainy cards are in Bobba Fett sleeves. I play a 60 card deck with a mix of objectives from each affiliation. I am assuming this would be a dumb move because my opponent would be able to tell what cards are in my hand, based on the sleeves? Or does it really matter? What have been your experiences? My opponent could say, "oh he has four scum and villainy and two sith in his hand." If I played a pure sith deck, it would not matter. I know a lot will say, why not just sleeve all your command decks with the same sleeves. I am being a little OCD. I wanted to sleeve my cards like this:

Sith - Force Lightning sleeves

Imperial Navy - Empire Strikes Back sleeves

Neutral Dark Side - Return of the Jedi sleeves

Jedi - Lightsaber Sleeves

Rebel - A New Hope sleeves

Neutral Light Side - Return of the Jedi

Smugglers and Spies - Han Solo Sleeves

Scum and Villainy - Jabba Sleeves (when they are released)

Please let me know if this is a bad idea. Thanks for your time everyone.

Bad idea. It will be considered marked cards as you will know what affiliation your next card(s) are. A deck needs uniform sleeves.

For legal play they'd all have to be the same, you could sleeve your command and objective decks differently for examples 50 command cards in black and 10 objective cards in red (or green for LS) but the command deck needs to be uniform.

Agreed, bad idea for the reason mentioned above.

To really take advantage of the deck-building system and its flexibility, I recommend sleeving all light side objectives one way, all dark side objectives another way, and using clear penny-sleeves for all other cards. As long as you don't use promos, clear sleeves are legal and will save you a lot of headaches unsleeving and resleeving in the long run.

Thanks everyone. This makes sense. I will take MarthWMaster's advice for sleeving the light side and dark side objectives. I'll sleeve everything else using FFG clear standard sleeves.

I recommend against that method. I only use clear sleeves for the actual objectives themselves. I would use opaque sleeves for the command deck even if you sleeve all DS and LS in the same sleeves. Creates less issues down the road at tourneys and stuff. I am switching my objectives to opaque sleeves for tournaments.

I use opaque sleeves mostly because I like them more than clear sleeves. Also, if you are going to play competitively you'll eventually start collecting alternate art/promo cards that require opaque sleeves (store championships have 32 copies of Han to hand out... You'll probably get 2 copies at most store champs).

Like I said, the method does not allow for promo cards. There are two general approaches if one wants to try this idea: A) don't play with promos, or B) bust out your opaque sleeves after you've decided on a deck that you're willing to stick with for a while. Also, the idea of sleeving objectives separately is by no means set in stone, but since objectives determine the contents of the draw deck, and are stacked separately from that deck, making them distinguishable from non-objective cards helps in keeping everything organized.

Ultimately, it comes down to how richly you value the deck-altering flexibility that the objective sets offer. In most other collectible card games, single cards can be swapped out of a deck without it making much difference in the overall strength of the deck, but since this LCG forces players to consider five-card groups working together in harmony, changing even a single objective can dramatically shift the tone of a deck, and I've found that being able to quickly swap out choices until I've found something that works makes this element of the game a boon rather than a bane.

I shove all my command deck cards into generic black dragonsleeves, my dark side objective cards into the Palpatine art sleeves, and my light sides into the blue lightsaber sleeves.

It frightens me a bit that you need to ask this. Never play a card game before I guess?

It frightens me a bit that you need to ask this. Never play a card game before I guess?

Please let me know if this is a bad idea. Thanks for your time everyone.

Worst plan ever.

Please let me know if this is a bad idea. Thanks for your time everyone.

Worst plan ever.

Another super insightful response!