As we dive into the winter months in Lands of Galzyr, Bumir stands strong in his goal to quest and adventure, searching for new stories. Where will his adventures lead him and what stories will he find to engage with this time? Join me as I play Lands of Galzyr by Snowdale Design over on Malts and Meeples YouTube Channel. Catch up here, and then every Wednesday at 8 PM Central, until I complete a year, I’m going to be adventuring.

The Game – Lands of Galzyr

It’s less about the game today, but more about my decision to sleeve the cards. I normally don’t sleeve cards, so what made me change my mind on Lands of Galzyr? Are the cards a cheap quality, or is there some other reason that I’d want to sleeve them?

First off, I will say that this has decent card quality. Some of the reason that I sleeved them is that the cards were thinner than I’d like, and having to handle them, go through the sections, and look for a specific card, I felt like they were going to wear more quickly than most cards.

Does that mean you need to sleeve them, no. Part of why I sleeved the cards is that Snowdale Design sells sleeves. So I want to support a smaller publisher and one way to do that is order sleeves or other products, like the play mat I have yet to use from them. So that also led to the decision.

The Benefits

The added benefit that I’ve found is that it is much easier to find cards. When cards are right next to each other with no sleeves it’s easy to skip five cards. When they are apart a little more with sleeves, you can get to where you want faster. That really makes a difference, I’ve found, in the game play of finding cards. Since it is a major part of Lands of Galzyr, finding those cards, I want it to be easy. I don’t want it to be a source of frustration.

The other benefit is that the cards shuffle well. Now, if I needed to shuffle a normal deck of cards size, they’d shuffle worse. That’s my experience with sleeves and Magic The Gathering cards. But here, you never have that large a deck of cards. The biggest is the event deck, and that only gets shuffled rarely. Nor is it a big deck of cards. So doing a smash shuffle is very easy.

Upcoming Streams

So, as I said at the top, every Wednesday at 8 PM Central you can catch a live stream of some board game. Right now I’m 1/3 of the way through Lands of Galzyr. So join me for the rest of the time. See the adventure and quests that I go on. Some might be the same for you, others will be very different if you play.

Then on Mondays, I play smaller solo games at 8:30 PM Central. I’m out of town this weekend, so likely it won’t be a new game. But join me and see what game I find to play. This week it was Sprawlopolis. So you can join me for who knows what game. And when it’s a roll and write, you can play along at home and compare your score.

And as always, when you want to catch something live, the easiest way to remember is subscribe and click that notification bell. You can do that here on the Malts and Meeples YouTube Page.

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