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 accessible to TCG collectors and stores around the world.

Designed for Players

The CardMill is the only automated trading card game scanner and sorter on the market, priced for the everyday collector and player.

Automated Scanning

The CardMill can scan and sort batches of 300 cards at a time, hands-free! It moves, scans, and sorts all on its own.

Fast Sorting

Settings to sort cards alphabetically, by set/type/color and more! The CardMill auto-sorts your collection so you can find what you need when you need it.

Intelligent Identification

This AI-model learns and grows with your collection. The CardMill scanner identifies cards by name, set, foil, you name it!

Digital Dashboard

Scanning is just the beginning. Use CardMill's digital library to organize, filter, track price trends and add your inventory to your favorite collection tracker!

Track Collection Value

Integrated with up-to-date TCGPlayer pricing, you'll always have the latest prices of your inventory at-a-glance.

Find out more about CardMill by going to https://cardmill.com/manaversesaga and sign up to get notified when the Kickstarter campaign goes live on July 22nd.

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: The Gathering singles to creating a Kickstarter for card drawers that raised over $150K, eventually leading to the development of his own card sorting machine—one of the first new production machines in over 20 years.

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But hardware is just part of the picture.

SortSwift also offers an integrated software suite for game stores and at-home sellers that includes:

• Inventory management
• Auto-pricing via TCGPlayer
• Buylist management
• Shopify and marketplace integrations
• Chaos-style organization (bin-level card tracking)
• POS and customer kiosk systems
• CSV tools and fuzzy match imports
• Plans for a vetted seller marketplace and fulfillment network

If you're tired of dealing with legacy systems like BinderPOS that aren't performing as promised and want something more responsive, modular, and affordable, you should take a look at SortSwift. Many game stores are already switching, and growth is accelerating.

Sign up for SortSwift today!

https://manaversesaga.com/sortswift

SortSwift quick hits:

• Over 2.2 million cards scanned
• Nearly $750K in customer sales processed
• 90+ active subscriptions and growing
• 21 sorting machines ordered, with more in production

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 within weeks of finalizing a collective agreement.

We talk about TCG Player's history in dealing with its employees, what this means for sellers and buyers on the platform, and the ethics (or lack thereof) in running a multibillion dollar corporation.

Here's a short summary of the situation

In early 2023, the graders and authenticators at TCGplayer’s Syracuse Authentication Center voted to unionize under the Communications Workers of America (CWA).

On May 22, 2025, eBay announced it would close that Syracuse facility, affecting about 220 employees, and shift all authentication work to one of its logistics centers in Kentucky.

The closure came just days after union leadership and eBay management wrapped up their first contract negotiations—CWA says the timing is suspicious.

eBay’s official line is that consolidating in Kentucky “streamlines operations” and keeps costs down. Minimum wage and overhead in Kentucky are much lower than in upstate New York.

Workers and the union claim this move is a union-busting tactic—there are new unfair-labor-practice charges filed with the NLRB arguing eBay shut down a unionized site to avoid bargaining.

The Syracuse center was TCGplayer’s original headquarters and a key local employer—many of those 220 workers were specialized in grading card condition and verifying authenticity.

With the Syracuse center gone, sellers and collectors in the short term will likely face longer turnaround times for grading and authentication.

The CWA and local labor leaders have already staged rallies outside the shuttered building, started petitions, and enlisted state politicians to pressure eBay.

eBay acquired TCGplayer in 2022 for $295 million, aiming to double down on the booming trading-card market—this shutdown is the first major union battle under their umbrella.

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