I sleeved everything as I put it into the binders, and they will stay sleeved unless I think of a good reason to remove them.
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Sleeving cards as you tech them in (and, presumably, unsleeving when the game is over) sounds like a maddening hassle to me.
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I used Black Matte Dragon Shields for all starter decks and all cards in a binder. I used Clear Matte Dragon Shields for all heroes, all tokens (except the dancers), and the map cards. I used Clear Dragon Shield sleeves for the workers and dancer tokens (since they were double sided, didn’t want one side matte). FFG Mini-American board game sleeves were slightly too tight for the small tokens (forcing a card in caused it to bed). I’m going to try the Mini-European board game sleeves.
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I used Black Matte Dragon Shields for all starter decks and all cards in a binder, while i sleeved worker cards, heroes and tokens (all cards that do not get shuffled) into ltra-Pro Clear Deck Protector Sleeves. All works like a charm!
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Guys, i’d like to buy a good binder for my neutral faction too. Can someone recommend me something? bonus points if resembles the deluxe ones. ty
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Ah… I just got done re-sleeving my print and play set. Previously I’d used (stupidly) clear Dragon Shields, but that looked pretty bad. Now I’ve sleeved everything in black Dragon Shields, except for tokens and Heroes, which I’ve used white Dragon Shields for, to easily differentiate them.
Everything looks so much nicer now! 
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I originally used clear Dragon Shields for the Starter set but my sleeves didn’t feel great to shuffle or something. This is the first time I ever used Dragon Shield. I ended up getting KMC Hyper Matte Clears and I’m going to resleeve the starter and the Core set I just received.
I bought some clear penny sleeves for my hero + token cards, but I really don’t like how much extra space there is. It’s like night and day between those and the official sleeves. The other clear sleeves mentioned in here have been the FFG clears and KMC Hyper Matte clears - for those of you that have them, how snugly do those fit the cards?
From my experience, Ultra Pro Clears are a bit snug. It won’t warp the cards but it’s not exactly a smooth experience trying to sleeve the cards. Dragon Shields are better fit and they have better room clearance at top. KMC Hyper Mattes are slightly (0.1mm probaby) wider than the Dragon Shields and are much easier to sleeve. Only thing is it doesn’t have as much room clearance on top (but no where as close as the official Codex sleeves). I prefer the feel of the KMC Hyper Matte clears over the Dragon Shield clears.
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For folders, I have the 6 that came with the deluxe set. Are most people buying 3 extra binders for the neutral set and whichever combination you’re using at the time? That is, do you move the 3 specs you’ve picked out of their binders and into a new one before you play?
Finished sleeving my Codices recently!! It took me a while, since I was double sleeving everything. :0 I used clear KMC Perfect Size sleeves on the inside, and clear Dragon Shield sleeves on the outside - for the most parte! It seems to have turned out very well. I was running out of clear Dragons, though, so I picked up some other Dragon Shield matte sleeves to sleeve my remaining stuffs (tokens + map cards). I wish I had had enuff clear Dragons for everything to maintain consistency, but all of my Starter/Spell/Tech cards are in clear sleeves so whatever.
Still haven’t played the game, though. 
I would like to soon!!
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Another update: Still shuffling my Codex-sleeved Yomi foil aces at work, pretty frequently during the work week. Still no signs at all of fading on the image on the back of the sleeve. Very small amounts of wear and splitting starting at the bottom corners of the sleeves.
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This seems too good to be true. 6 bucks for 500 sleeves?? I’m not crazy right?
Those are “penny” sleeves, so they’re meant to be cheap. They likely won’t fit into the Codex binders. But if you’re going with a non-binder codex solution, they’ll be fine. (:
Are penny sleeves larger than ultra pros and dragon shields and the like?
and for a game with 700 cards I think (hope) buying lots of sleeve in bulk should be fine, especially since it’s not like the cards are extremely valuable alone
They are “looser”, very wiggly, prone to coming off. On a budget, they’re probably better than nothing so yea, fine to start out!
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Ah thank you. Sounds like it might be iffy for binders
Maybe I could swap out my magic cards for their sleeves, but I don’t know if I have 700…
Even then, they’re just the basic ultra pro
Penny sleeves are also bad for shuffling, and the soft plastic is easily marked. The only downside to more traditional Ultra Pro sleeves is the hologram, which covers up some card text. I included some pictures of cards in different sleeves here: (Nearly) Complete Codex Deluxe component storage and travel approach
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Wow, Impressively thorough. Props to you my friend, and thank you for this