Choosing a Pokémon and TCG bumper

A Pokémon card is a printed miniature: board, glossy coat, sometimes a holographic film. It was not designed to live ten years in a pocket or under a window. The Anzena bumper is not an “aesthetic extra”: it is the layer that stops fingers, UV and shocks.

What makes a TCG card fragile

The standard 63 × 88 mm format is the same for Pokémon, One Piece, Magic, Lorcana and European Yu-Gi-Oh. The paper is thin. Holo scratches at the slightest grain of dust in a worn sleeve. Edges whiten as soon as you riffle the deck. A Charizard worth a month’s rent cannot take the same use as a common from a booster.

Once graded, the PSA / PCA / CCC slab does not stop UV and scratches like any grader acrylic. Raw and graded do not go in the same bumper: forcing a holder into a 63 × 88 mm format would scratch the shell and jam the clips.

Fingers, sun, heat, shocks

• Fingers: sebum + salt = haze on the holo, halos on the white.
• Sun and aggressive neons: pigments leaving, a frame that yellows.
• Heat (car, glued LED case): a card that warps, a sleeve that sticks.
• Shocks: a crushed corner = a grader grade that collapses if you grade later.

Raw or graded: the right bumper

Ungraded card: licence bumper, 63 × 88 mm (Pokémon Card Bumper). Card in a PSA slab: -psa variant or universal PSA bumper. PCA and CCC have their own bumpers. Never force a slab into a raw bumper: you would scratch the holder.

• Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece, Magic, Lorcana, Dragon Ball, Star Wars Unlimited: the same raw / PSA / PCA / CCC logic.
• 11 frame colours, the same UV +96 % protection.
• FlexLock option for the FlexWall.

How to insert the card

The gesture is the same on all Anzena TCG licences.

1. 01Clean hands. Take the card out of the toploader or worn sleeve.
2. 02Open the bumper, slide the card flat, illustration toward the pane.
3. 03A firm seat, click shut.
4. 04Slab: the same gesture, in the bumper of the matching grader.