Since its arrival in October, Games Workshop's Warhammer Underworlds: Shade spire has emerged as something of an obsession for me. Not given my teenage years have I performed something so relentlessly as this card/miniatures recreation of tactical supremacy. I love it.
Players of Pokémon or Magic: The Gathering will now no longer be new to this issue, however for me, that is the primary collectible kind of recreation I’ve been well concerned about. I began out with something reasonably-priced and cheerful—the lowly deck field. I offered myself an Ultimate Guard deck field, and lo, I became pleased.
But as extra playing cards got here out, I discovered myself trying to strive for various deck combinations, the decking field (or deck bins, as that they'd emerge as via way of means of then) weren’t reducing it. I contacted Ultimate Guard right here in Europe, and they dispatched me a few merchandises to strive out and notice what the exceptional health for Shade spire would possibly be.
Currently, Ultimate Guard doesn’t make any Warhammer Underworlds unique merchandise, however, if the sport keeps at its cutting-edge price it could properly change. There are some bespoke alternatives for sporting playing cards and tokens round (which include this one), however, so far, the massive gamers like Ultimate Guard haven't begun to step as much to the plate. I’ve been searching at UG’s variety for popular CCGs. Based on what I’ve seen; a WU unique variety of merchandise might be large bins of awesome.
The Basics
Deck bins:
The Ultimate Guard deck field, the “Deck Case” I’ve been using, is a great size, a product of hard plastic, and springs with a plastic divider. You can bring well-known Warhammer Underworld suit decks in one. They’re a good, reasonably-priced manner to hold your playing cards. Deck bins come as an 80+ or 100+ card version, even though this is for double-sleeved playing cards. The bins will maintain appreciably extra unmarried or sleeved playing cards. The 80+ card field retails at around $2. The 100+, $3. They each are available in numerous colors.
Sleeves:
This is my first creation in the arena of card sleeves. Before Shade spire they regarded it as a useless add-on sale. Why ought I to put money into something to maintain my product once I ought to use it to shop for the extra products? But as I organized for the Grand Clash, I found out I was going to want something to provide my playing cards uniformity. I desired no person complaining that a difficult fringe of one in every of my playing cards becomes giving me a tactical advantage.
Games Workshop makes its very own sleeves, and they’re very nice. The hassle is, being GW, they’re pretty expensive. They even have a faction unique layout on them, which might suggest you’d preserve having to switch your regularly occurring playing cards round in case you modified which War band you play. Not best that, there are enough sleeves for 20 electricity playing cards and I use 22.
All of this intended I become searching out something else. I attempted forms of Ultimate Guard sleeve, one with opaque backs and a few absolutely clean ones. As for sleeves, the opaque ones are probably higher. The opaque aspect is barely textured for higher shuffling, and, in case you do have any aberrations on the cardboard backs, they’d be obscured.
Ultimate Guard Sleeves:
Ultimate Guard sleeves. From left to right: black sleeve, opposite aspect, the front aspect of the black sleeve, sleeve field, clean sleeve.
