{"id":1409,"date":"2017-02-05T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:11:43","slug":"card-sleeving-for-unique-card-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Card Sleeving for Unique Card Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m catching up on some items that have been on hold for a little bit. I’ll start with a simple little pimping- sleeving cards. Now card sleeves are probably the easiest way to pimp out a game and some might argue that it’s so ubiquitous that it isn’t actually pimping out your game.\u00a0 I disagree, so much so that I will block quote my philosophy:<\/p>\n

Pimping a game is any addition or customization that enhances the aesthetic or mechanical enjoyment of the game or game play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Card sleeves as a protection of your investment will enhance the enjoyment over time, or rather, they will prolong the enjoyment as your components stay undamaged.\u00a0 I don’t tend to sleeve my games but will do it for some exceptions, namely any game that requires different cards to be added and subtracted from frequently shuffled decks.\u00a0 Dominion <\/a>is probably the biggest example but 7 Wonders<\/a> also has this, especially since the card quality was so poor and cards showed wear after the first couple of games.<\/p>\n

Card sleeves are also something easily acquired and so might not be worth even mentioning in this blog but the card game I was looking to sleeve is pretty unique.<\/p>\n

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Korsar<\/a> is the first edition of Knizia’s pirate card game that is now produced under Gamewright<\/a> as “Loot.”<\/p>\n

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I first played Loot years ago and while we really enjoyed the game, the art was a bit too kid-ish and so it faded from our table.\u00a0 To be fair, Gamewright announced<\/a> a new version with updated art. However, I had heard about the original edition called Korsar but could never find a copy.\u00a0 Eventually, a copy showed up and I quickly snatched it up.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the art is a bit different and more “adult.” The other thing is the card size is very unique.\u00a0 I have never encountered this card size before and since this was kind of a “grail game” to me, I didn’t want to ruin these cards with excessive play.\u00a0 Card sleeving was really the only option (well not the only<\/em> option as I could have laminated them) but with such a unique size, I couldn’t find anything that would work.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I stumbled on a specialized site dedicated to unique card sizes: Swan Panasia<\/a>.\u00a0 This site has a ton of unique sizes for card types I’d never heard of before and one of them worked for Korsar.\u00a0 The delivery is fulfilled by Mayday Games<\/a> so I’m not sure what the relationship is between the two companies but it made delivery to the US easy.<\/p>\n

I picked up a set and they worked very well.\u00a0 I’m glad I can pull out this game again and get it to the table.\u00a0 The box size is a little weird so I’ll likely set it aside and make a custom tuckbox so that the game can travel easily.<\/p>\n

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There is one slight issue that I’m not sure about and that is the sleeve height.\u00a0 I prefer them to be a little shorter so that there isn’t so much space at the top.\u00a0 The excess sleeve amount at the top makes it harder to shuffle and can be annoying. I may cut them all down but will need to think about a way to cut them consistently.<\/p>\n

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In other news, Cosmic Kaboom<\/a> from Minion Games came in this week as well.\u00a0 I’m excited to crack this open and also get it to the table.<\/p>\n

Finally, last week I talked about the 6×6 Game Challenge<\/a> I’m doing this year and I had left the last entry open to discuss with my friends.\u00a0 We came to a decision via acclimation and so number six in my 6×6 Game Challenge is:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Pandemic Legacy: Season 1<\/h4>\n

We’ve been wanting to do a Legacy game for a while now.\u00a0 We tried Risk Legacy but then some friends moved away and the game died. Hopefully we’re more successful with this version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m catching up on some items that have been on hold for a little bit. I’ll start with a simple little pimping- sleeving cards. Now card sleeves are probably the easiest way to pimp out a game and some might argue that it’s so ubiquitous that it isn’t actually pimping out your game.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,2,10],"tags":[324,223,391,387,389,383,384,386,86,390,388,385],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-6x6-gaming-challenge","category-general","category-resources","tag-7-wonders","tag-card-sleeves","tag-cosmic-kaboom","tag-dominion","tag-gamewright","tag-korsar","tag-loot","tag-mayday-games","tag-minion-games","tag-pandemic-legacy-season-1","tag-reiner-knizia","tag-swan-panasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}