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As things quieten down for the majority of people at work, and thoughts turn to Christmas, you may have noticed that a number of us bloggers are getting quite excited about what Father Christmas may be bringing us this year! One of my favourite Christmas carols at this time of year is the 12 days of Christmas. I decided it might be fun to come up with a Zatu Blogger version of the song, so each day for the next 12 days a new installment will be released, along with some accompanying comments from me in the style of ‘my true loves reply’.
Day 1
Dear Zatu,
The doorbell rang this morning and the postman presented me with a large box…containing a partridge in an Everdell Tree! It’s beautiful, thank you! Yours most gratefully, Grace
On the first day of Christmas, Zatu gave to me:
A Partridge in an Everdell Tree - Ella Jones
The woodland magic of Everdell, featuring its central tree decorated with colorful wooden critter meeples and mini event cards, will keep you entertained all Christmas! Players each build a woodland city, made up of the following cards:
Blue- governance
Purple- Prosperity
Green- Production
Red- Destination
Brown- Traveller
Seeing as it's nearly Christmas, let's think of these as technicolor gift parcels! Here's some highlights of what you can find inside!
Christmas Eve Midnight Blue:
The Innkeeper is a lovely, generous Badger from the base game who can be discarded (worth it as he only scores 1 victory point) to play a critter for 3 less berries. Bargain!
Mistletoe Green:
Of course, the reliable, all-rounder Farm card is a classic in the base game. EVEN better, the Mistwood expansion features variations of this card (in design and functionality): showing the farm decorated in blankets of snow, as well as in the other 3, warmer seasons.
Not forgetting The Doctor from the base game, the wise hedgehog carefully prescribes berry potions (very lovingly detailed in the rulebook of the base game). Every time production is activated, players can earn an extra 3 victory points with this card (1 point for each berry). This is also a very festive act of goodwill, supplying vital berries to make critters better!
Chocolate Coin Brown:
The beautiful butterfly: The Poet is a lovely example of this card type, from the Newleaf expansion. It allows players to draw all cards of a chosen color from the meadow, scoring a victory point for each drawn.
Santa's Hat Red:
The Lookout enables players to copy any basic or forest location, for a reasonable price of just 1 log, 1 resin and 1 pebble. Not bad at all!
Perfect Purple:
The main event has to be the prosperity cards, offering numerous victory points during gameplay and at the game end. Occupying The Farm, the Harvester and Gatherer mouse couple (previously Husband and Wife) score a whopping 7 points at the end of the game when paired together.
Not forgetting The Baker from the Newleaf expansion, a kind bee proudly carrying fresh bread, who earns 2 victory points at the game end, PLUS up to 6 victory points (2 points for each of 3 berries). That's a grand total of 8 victory points, for a card costing just 3 berries (that could even be played FOR FREE with The Innkeeper, for example). For Everdell lovers, Newleaf is definitely the expansion I recommend gifting them this Christmas the most, featuring numerous new critters and constructions, reserve tokens, player redeployment tickets and even a train!