GlossaryWhat a Slab Actually Tells You About a Sealed GameTwo sealed copies of the same game can lead completely different lives. One sits naked in a drawer, shrinkwrap intact, waiting to be believed. The other is entombed in acrylic with a label reading something like 9.4 A++ — and suddenly everyone at the meetup wants to hold it. If that label reads like tax code to you, here's the vocabulary, minus the mystique.
Slab vs raw, and what the plastic really signals
A slab is the tamper-evident acrylic case a grading company — WATA and VGA are the name
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GlossaryWhat a Slab Actually Tells You About a Sealed GameTwo sealed copies of the same game can lead completely different lives. One sits naked in a drawer, shrinkwrap intact, waiting to be believed. The other is entombed in acrylic with a label reading something like 9.4 A++ — and suddenly everyone at the meetup wants to hold it. If that label reads like tax code to you, here's the vocabulary, minus the mystique. Slab vs raw, and what the plastic really signals A slab is the tamper-evident acrylic case a grading company — WATA and VGA are the name
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