100 Million Magic and Pokémon Cards Sorted
July 7th, 2023
Calgary, AB –TCG Machines' card sorting machine for collectible card games, the PhyzBatch-9000, has just sorted 100 million cards!
TCG Machines fleet of PhyzBatch-9000s collectively PhyzBatched (scanned, physically separated, and digitally cataloged) 100 million cards! That is 200 tons or 400,000 lbs of Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon cards. TCG Machines CEO Graeme Gordon said that he was incredibly proud of the historic milestone and that it was only the beginning of what the PhyzBatch-9000 is capable of.
“Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and Yu Gi Oh! each print more than one-billion cards every year, so I do not see us running out of cards to PhyzBatch any time soon. Our machines already support Magic and Pokémon, and with support for Yu Gi Oh! on the way, our customers will catalog have no shortage of card games to be PhyzBatched. We continue to innovate and improve upon our services for the TCG market, and after we add support for Yu Gi Oh!, we are looking to include support for Flesh and Blood and Disney's new TCG game, Lorcana. Looking to the future, we hope to add support for the sports card market, which is a 10-billion-dollar industry.”
The prototype PhyzBatch-9000 machine was conceived in 2015 after Graeme Gordon, a mechanical engineer, decided that there had to be a better way to sort through the thousands of Magic cards in his collection. The desire to easily sort, digitally catalog and quickly find valuable cards amongst thousands was equally attractive to game stores and card sellers and the PhyzBatch-9000 was born! The annual trading card market is estimated at over 10 billion [USD] and some analysts project it to exceed 25 billion [USD] by 2026, so there is no slowing down for Graeme and the rest of the TCG Machines team!
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