by Thomas Traplin | Aug 14, 2025 | Articles
If you’ve ever faced a mountain of unsorted Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Lorcana, or other trading card game (TCG) cards and thought, “There has to be a better way…”, but you’re not ready to drop $10,000 on a massive sorting machine — the solution is here.... 
by Thomas Traplin | Jul 8, 2025 | Podcasts
Cardmill—a compact, cost-effective card sorting device designed for everyday players and collectors of trading card games. Get a behind the scenes look at the CardMill and how Jonathan Domanus is working to make professional and efficient card sorters affordable and... 
by Thomas Traplin | Jun 13, 2025 | Podcasts
Mikah, the founder of SortSwift and MTech Cave, comes onto the Manaverse Podcast to talk about his journey from running a phone repair shop to building cutting-edge tools for the collectible card game industry. Mikah shares how his business evolved from selling Magic:... 
by Thomas Traplin | Jun 7, 2025 | Podcasts
In this episode of the Manaverse Podcast, Douglas Johnson (DJ) and I discuss the recent turmoil surrounding TCG Player and eBay. TCG Player recently announced the closure of it's Syracuse authentication center and the firing of 220 employees, right as the union was... 
by Thomas Traplin | Jun 4, 2025 | Podcasts
In this episode of the Manaverse podcast, we explore a variety of low-cost yet highly effective marketing strategies to help you increase the visibility and customer base of your friendly local game store. Inspired by a question from the Opening a Table Game Store...