Top Selling Supplies on TCGplayer – May 2025
By Peter Day •
If you sell trading card games, your business would almost certainly benefit from selling TCG supplies as well. Doing so diversifies the products you offer while giving you more opportunities to upsell your customers and lock in sales you might otherwise miss.
To help you make the most of this product type, we’ve compiled a report of the bestselling TCG supplies this month. Reading this report will show you which supplies are most popular with players and collectors so you can make better decisions about what to keep in stock.
The report lists the top 100 products with the “Supplies” product type, ranked by the total units sold on the TCGplayer Marketplace between April 16 and May 15, 2025. As a quick preview, here are the ten supplies at the very top of the list:
Top 10 Supplies
#10 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Purple (100-Pack)
Market Price: $11.93
You’ll quickly notice a few patterns among popular TCG supplies highlighted in this article. The first is that card sleeves reign supreme, generally outselling binders, playmats, and storage items (both by units sold and by total value of sales). Sleeves endure the most wear and tear through shuffling and handling, so fans need to replace them more often than other TCG supplies.
Second, Dragon Shield sleeves are the most popular on the market. The brand is well-known and widely respected, especially among players, many of whom appreciate the balance that Dragon Shield strikes between quality and price.
Third, the most popular sleeves feature solid primary colors and matte finishes. What they lack aesthetically, they make up for by being easy to mix and replace, and by causing the fewest headaches at tournaments.
All three of those trends are exemplified by the sleeves above, and we’ll see plenty more like them before the list is over.
#9 Dragon Shield Japanese Size Matte Clear Outer Sleeves (60-Pack)
Market Price: $10.39
Outer sleeves go outside of normal sleeves. They’re most often used over art sleeves, which look great but don’t always shuffle well—and show any damage they sustain from shuffling more obviously than solid matte sleeves.
That the best-selling outer sleeves are Japanese size suggests that this “art-sleeve-in, outer-sleeve-out” approach is most popular among players of games like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Cardfight!! Vanguard, whose publishers print a lot of these art sleeves that fans like to show off.
#8 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Black (100-Pack)
Market Price: $11.67
Perfectly standard sleeves, popular with players of any TCG that has cards with the “Standard” dimensions of 2.5x3.5 inches.
#7 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Gold (100-Pack)
Market Price: $11.79
More standard-sized Dragon Shield matte sleeves.
#6 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Silver (100-Pack)
Market Price: $12.33
Some more standard-sized Dragon Shield matte sleeves.
#5 Dragon Shield Samurai Matte Dual Art Sleeves (100-Pack)
Market Price: $26.92
Non-Pokémon art sleeves rarely make it onto this list, but this one’s a special case. Japanese artist Yumeko (best-known in Magic circles for her Mystical Archive versions of Memory Lapse and Ephemerate) based the art for these sleeves on Mana Hatanaka, a Japanese voice actor and content creator who also plays Magic and Disney Lorcana.
The confluence of these two personalities who both have ties to Magic, together with the Dragon Shield brand, has resulted in a unique pop culture artifact that some fans want to collect for its own sake. And even fans who don’t know or don’t care about these sleeves’ origin can agree that they look gorgeous.
#4 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Jet (100-Pack)
Market Price: $11.85
Even more standard-sized Dragon Shield matte sleeves.
#3 Dragon Shield Matte Sleeves - Blood Red (100-Pack)
Market Price: $11.67
More standard Dragon Shield sleeves, noteworthy only because they are “Blood Red” instead of simply “Red.” Dragon Shield appears to have discontinued the sleeves they previously branded as “Red,” leaving “Blood Red” as their most basic red-colored option (the others being Fury, Crimson, and Ruby).
#2 Dragon Shield Perfect Fit - Clear/Clear (100-Pack)
Market Price: $8.05
“Perfect Fit” (aka “inner”) sleeves go on the inside of a normal sleeve for added protection of the card inside. As the name implies, they’re sized to fit perfectly around a standard card, leaving almost no room for the card to shift around.
Players use Perfect Fit sleeves to reinforce decks that contain cards worth hundreds of dollars, and collectors and retailers use them like extra-secure penny sleeves. Speaking of which…
#1 Ultra Pro Soft Card Sleeves - Standard (100-Pack)
Market Price: $3.07
Colloquially called “penny sleeves,” these sleeves offer no rigidity to help with shuffling. Instead, their low cost makes them perfect for collectors (and retailers) who want an easy way to protect cards from normal wear and tear while they’re being handled. Easy to buy in bulk and replace as needed, these sleeves are ubiquitous in the TCG industry, so it’s not surprising that they’re also the top-selling TCG supply this month.
By listing popular supplies on TCGplayer you can stand out on the Marketplace and sell more singles to players who want to sleeve their deck as soon as it arrives. Download the May 2025 Supplies Report to review the top 100 TCG supplies in May 2025, then list supplies on TCGplayer to stay ahead of the competition.