Nym’s Collectables in Sterling offers gaming, trading, playing space

“It just grows from there.” That’s how Jeremy Newman, the owner of Nym’s Collectables in Sterling, describes how collectors of game cards like “Magic: The Gathering,” “Pokémon,” “Disney Lorcana,” and “Yu-Gi-Oh!” can amass thousands of the popular trading cards.Newman hosted an official ribbon-cutting for his new business at 115 W. Third St., with the Sauk Valley Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.Newman knows how to grow a collection. His collection of around 10,000 trading cards propelled him into business, first in Dixon at The Paper Escape, and now on his own. “This world, this genre of gaming, is something else,” he said. Newman was working as a driver for United Parcel Service in Rock Falls when a coworker introduced him to “Magic: The Gathering” in the mid-1990s. “He played and he gave me some cards. I built a small collection; it was around 10,000 cards,” Newman said. Newman happened to be the driver who delivered to The Paper Escape, a comic book, trading card and collectible