Anyone who has sorted a few thousand cards by hand knows the process eats an entire afternoon without the right tray. Two sorting trays from EVORETRO solve the same basic problem in different ways, and picking the wrong one slows down exactly the workflow it was supposed to speed up.
The standard card sorting tray is built for raw or sleeved cards moving through a sorting pass. The toploader sorting tray is built for cards that are already encased. Both hold 18 slots and come in packs of five, but the slot dimensions are cut for different jobs.
Here is how to tell which one actually matches how you sort.
The card sorting tray is sized for raw cards or cards in a thin penny sleeve, the state most cards are in before grading submission or before final storage decisions get made. Its 18 slots are narrow enough to keep thin cards from sliding around while you sort by set, condition, or player.
This is the tray collectors reach for during a grading prep session, when hundreds of raw cards need to get separated into piles before submission, or during a trade night when cards are changing hands quickly and staying loose.
The card sorting tray for toploaders has wider slots sized to hold a card that is already inside a rigid toploader. Trying to fit a toploaded card into the standard tray usually will not work, since the toploader itself is thicker than the slot width.
This tray is for the stage after protection decisions are already made. If your collection lives in toploaders for display or shipping, this tray lets you sort and browse without ever pulling cards back out of their holders.
Grading submission prep is a raw-card task by definition, since graders require cards to be submitted unsleeved or in a basic penny sleeve, not a toploader. The standard sorting tray is the correct tool for building out a submission batch by set or condition tier.
Once cards come back from grading, or once you have decided to toploader a collection for long-term storage, the toploader tray becomes the better daily-use organizer. It lets you flip through an already-protected collection without repeatedly opening and closing card sleeves.
Raw card sorting benefits from a tray that lets you slide cards in and out quickly with bare or gloved fingers, since you are handling a high volume of thin cards in a short window. The standard tray's slot width is tuned for exactly that speed.
Toploaded cards are bulkier and already protected, so the toploader tray trades a bit of sorting speed for the reassurance that cards never leave their holder during the process, which matters if you are sorting valuable graded-adjacent pulls.
If you are prepping raw cards for grading or a trade session, start with the card sorting tray. If your collection already lives in toploaders, the card sorting tray for toploaders is the correct fit.
Many active collectors and resellers end up owning both, using the standard tray during the initial sorting and prep stage, then moving finished cards into toploaders and organizing those in the second tray for long-term browsing or shipping prep.
Since both trays ship in packs of five at the same $70 price point, adding the second style once your workflow calls for it is a low-friction upgrade rather than a full re-purchase.
Resellers running a card shop or a regular online storefront often keep a stack of each tray near the packing station, using the raw tray to triage incoming inventory and the toploader tray to stage outgoing orders that are ready to ship. That split keeps unprotected cards from ever sitting next to shipping supplies for longer than necessary.
Whichever tray style you use, store filled trays flat rather than tilted, since angled storage lets cards or toploaders shift and bunch against one side of a slot over time. A dedicated shelf or drawer sized for the tray footprint keeps a sorting station tidy between sessions.
If you sort in batches spread across multiple sittings, labeling trays by set or grading batch before setting them aside saves real time when you come back to finish the job a day or two later.
Yes, it comfortably fits raw cards and cards in thin penny sleeves.
No, toploaders are too thick for the standard tray's slot width.
Each tray has 18 slots, and packs include five trays for 90 slots total.
Not necessarily, since graded slabs use different storage than either sorting tray.
Build out your next sorting session around the card sorting tray so raw pulls stay organized from the moment they hit your desk.
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