Card Sensitivity Database

Grading companies keep internal reference libraries: this set, this print run, these are its known traits, this is what a genuine one does. Nobody keeps the equivalent for conservation — a record of how a card class responds when you put heat, moisture, or solvent on it. Every restorer learns it the same expensive way, one ruined card at a time, and the lesson dies in a Discord scroll-back.

This is the attempt to stop that. It is a poor man's version of a grading company's reference database, pointed at behaviour instead of authentication.

Also on this page
  • The thing this database exists to prevent
  • How to read a profile
  • Rating — what happens
  • Confidence — how sure we are
  • The eleven processes
  • ID scheme
  • Master index
  • Cross-class quick reference
  • Cross-class findings
  • Every holo layer, in every era, is heat sensitive
  • Always press face down — and dry enough
  • The PET layer is where heat damage starts
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This page is part of the Card Conservation Wiki member library — the working reference behind The Cardboard Alchemists. Technique pages with tested settings, the Card Sensitivity Database, logged incidents with the exact parameters that caused them, and community experiments you will not find written down anywhere else.
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