Friday, 7/1/2011

I've made some serious changes to Type Fun recently, but with the advent of Commander we haven't had as much time to test the new cardlist as I've wanted. Some of the changes include: removing all custom cards from the deck, taking out all the cards (specifically the lands) that tap solely for mana, and removing a couple dozen or so cards that were overly cumbersome or disliked in troves. I want to return to the roots of Type Fun Alpha, when it was just the cards in our binders, that fateful night of Nationals in Marland.

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Tuesday, 2/8/2011

Newest foiled member of Type Fun. Get da' f*** outta here, Goofy Goober.

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Saturday, 1/15/2011

I am the only one who posts cards anymore. That's alright. I'm excited for Mirrodin Besieged. Been reading Planeshift. Does anyone have a copy of Apocolypse?

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Thursday, 12/2/2010

Elder Dragon Highlander is now Commander. How awesome is that?

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Tuesday, 10/19/2010

Well, it's been two months since the last post. We know how Mox Opal turned out. Metalcraft, the 'fixed' affinity. Yeah, affinity would have been fine without Skullclamp and Disciple of the Vault. I'd even say reprinting Darksteel Ravager would be fine because of the new combat rules. Scars of Mirrodin is upon us. The sealed format for Mirrodin Besieged looks amazing with its Phyrexia vs. Mirran tourny pack structure. I guess drafting will go heavily in one direction or the other pretty sharply. Did you also hear that as of Mirrodin Besieged forward the most current set will be the first to be drafted? That's right. It's Besieged/Scars/Scars and then 'Action'/Besieged/Scars.

Great Designer Search 2 is underway as well. *envy*

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Thursday, 8/19/2010

So this image was found in the art for Scars of Mirrodin and I made a quick mock up with the name its expected to get. Any guesses on what it's going to do or how it'll work?

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Wednesday, 7/28/2010

Holistic Wisdom. Too powerful for Type Fun? Rob reminded me that this was the card that helped me earn the very first combo/lock/concession from a Type Fun playgroup. I think it was at least a 5-man game too. This was/is on my choppping block. I cut about 30 cards from Type Fun by the way. Surprise, the DCI released some bannings. That's what the gatekeeper does, and it seems to be cool.

Now that our Web Designer/Programmer/Overlord/my person hero has gotten a place and some regular work and I assume has the lady creating a nest for their offspring, he might have the time to redesign the site with me. I'm going away for a week, and while gone I will have MUCH time to work on said sketches and ideas.

I'd like to get a foil one if this this is to go back into TFA. Our version has IMBA of imbalanced written on it in pen and it looks dumb. Put it on the 'to get' list or no? Vote.

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Monday, 7/26/2010

From the Vault: Relics. It's ok to skip to the end of the video.

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Friday, 7/23/2010

Aw, man. I remember seeing this card after I had posted all my cards up on eBay and regretting not keeping my Megrim deck. And now here's the standard hotness. Remember how M10 and M11 are going to be legal together for three months? Yeah, it's only a one time hiccup because Wizards changed the rotation around so Megrim and Liliana's Caress are both legal, along with Burning Inquiry. Foil Destructive Force recently added to TFA. That is all.

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Wednesday, 7/21/2010

Congratulations to our web developer Ethan for upgrading his job and therefore leveling up his life. He'll need it if the adventures I hear he plans on getting himself into are really on track.

Check out the Type Fun section of the forums for a good story I pulled off in our TF game last night.

Come on Ethan, turn off the double line spacing. Or at least change it to 1.5 to see how that works?

I'm going to be going back to school this Fall, I wonder if it has a Magic Club.

Could everyone recommend some good METAL to listen to? I've played out everything I have so please suggest in the comments. Also, the M11 we ordered arrived so please let me know when you want to come pick it up.

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Monday, 7/19/2010

I realized today that we should have a Zombie Infestation in Type Fun, but that we should totally do better. Alright viewers, give us some ideas by commenting on the card.

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Saturday, 7/17/2010

I'm still waiting for someone to contact me from the ebay stuff about the player's guide situation that happened when I mailed two of them out. I'm also going to be playing 'Standard on the cheap.' I'm going to get me some neo-Wildfires and Infero Titans and clean house. I bet I can trade for all that with the draft set I bought if I keep the cards. I've also got some extra stuff that wasn't worth selling on ebay, enough to fill a 4 page trade binder maybe. Anyway, I'll be at Time Zone in Fords, to play a little Magic at the M11 release event at 4:00pm. Enjoy your weekends!

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Friday, 7/9/2010

Everything has been on it's way. If there are any problems, message me first at swwithapassion@hotmail.com. I will be away this weekend and not near internet so I also won't get any messages until Monday but I will reply to ALL of them then. So far all minor issues that have popped up have been resolved quickly and amiably. Enjoy your weekend and thanks again for supporting me.

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Tuesday, 7/6/2010

1:28am, 30 more packages to go. I'm checking out.

*faceplop*

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Monday, 7/5/2010

Awesome. I love that they upgraded this from combo potential to johnny powerhouse. Still a little combo-y I supposed but consider, a white/green standard deck with white removal, green mana through noncreature methods, both colors' token generation, a handful of the best creatures in standard, maybe just a bunch of Bogardan Hellkites, and Mass Polymorph?

Crap, does this mean there's a blue/red goblin token/fast mana/counterspells with Hellkite Rat-tat-tat in extended that might rock? Sounds easier to defend than Dragonstorm, and if it's new no one will see it coming. Fun idea either way. I'm so excited for M11. BUT! Do we add this or replace Polymorph (singular, which we made an instant)?

To the people who have been so patient with me, all your packages will be at the post office and mailed by today. Some of you will be getting the first wave of packages... though with the holiday weekend that might have delayed them a bit.

Sorry. :/

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Thursday, 7/1/2010

The first transport is away!

Had to go out and buy more packing material... plus there was more stuff I had to take care of involving the car accident. Oh! That's right, I haven't talked about that yet.

My cousin and I were in a car accident, I was driving, happened the evening that I got word from Gabe and Tycho and the twitter help. No one was hurt, but my car was classifed totaled so I'll be looking for a new one.

I've seen a lot of good will and positively charged events happening all around me as a result of this accident and my auction. Hopefully I'll get to write about it but for now I've got to get to the post office!

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Wednesday, 6/30/2010

ethan says:

Found a cool website that is full of demented art. BEINART

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Tuesday, 6/29/2010

Thank you to everyone who provided support to my auction, helping me to get back into the game of life. The grand total of the collected items was $4305.07, which I’m proud to announce, means I will be donating $430.51 to Child’s Play. Woohoo! .

Currently, I’m trouble-shooting a few technical difficulties coming up with a few late payments, organizing shipping, distributing bonuses, and getting packaging.

But it hasn’t been all bad. The Fallout 3 Hand Puppet went to a fan of the series who lives in a neighboring town so we met at a dunkin’ donuts to exchange and hit it off. Besides that, I’ve been having a good time writing humorous notes to people who got more personal pieces of my collection. One winner got five of my auctions, for literally, my whole red deck building card set from before I sorted it to sell. Bonus. Another cool combo was the person who bought my Milling cards also won my Haunting Echoes auction. Bonus. One guy spent $60 dollars on cool lands, $80 on Wraths, and $45 on MBC and Soliders. Bonus bonus bonus. .

I’ll be beginning to ship out items today and tomorrow.

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Monday, 6/28/2010

I made 4305.07$ on my Magic cards (gross). Booyah.

What do we think of Kratos?

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Saturday, 6/26/2010

e-dogg here:

I finally noticed that something was wrong with the card tracking section of the discussion page. After much contemplation, trial and error, venn diagrams and pencil scratching, now the "New comments on cards you created" section works... better? It's a pretty large SQL query. Please comment on this headline if it's not working the way it should. And let me know how you would like those links sorted. Currently the cards with the most recent comments rise to the top, and it only displays as many links as you have set to the maximum on the page. I was worried that if the newest comments were the ones on top, then old discussions would get buried... but I like to keep it fresh.

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Friday, 6/25/2010

So, as some of you might know, I've been selling my Magic collection. I'm at $3510.22 with about a third of it left to go. Baller. Save for 2 decks and Type Fun, I won't have anything else to duel with. HOWEVER, I am sooo thrilled that two of the coolest sets are coming out. M11 and Shards of Mirrodin. I'll be drafting when I can and trying to sell it to turn around and draft some more. That can be self sustaining, right?

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Tuesday, 6/15/2010

At Rob's request, the blog posts will now be double-spaced.

e-dogg

Yeah, Bert figured out how to linebreak

Time to hunt down how to undo this doublespacing bs.

This is the internet, get some classes.

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Wednesday, 6/9/2010

That was convenient. I stole a J.J. Bittings coaster because it had their phone number and website, which I desired since there is a need to contact the owner(s). As I returned to my desk with the chilled Garden State IPA, there was the coaster. Bonus points because the beer is made by Bittings as well. Good synergies there. I’d like to swirl around in it for awhile. However, the segway into my next topic is the reason for the drinking. I started my new job at the census office today. It blew. Hard. Now, I don’t think that I’m supposed to be speaking negatively about the federal government, seeing as I work for them. And might have signed something that said I couldn’t. But, no one really went over the manual with us, or what we were filling out. Plus, First Amdendment, ya'll. The lady who was our boot camp drill sergeant simply told us to fill it out and how. She was sweet, I like her. If she sharpened her control of English (which was completely intelligible if you’re wondering, just accented), she would be prone to speaking more, which she definitely should have, the directions were terse and somewhat lacking. That was just before lunch. After that organizational mess, in and over itself, we were split into two groups. One to answer phones, they were trained and put to work immediately the whole time they were up there. The person in charge of this group, when splitting us up, asked ‘who wanted to do the phones?’ Brilliant man. The guy in charge of my group, fucking nincompoop. I wanted to calmly explain to him why there should never, in his lifetime, be a time when he should be instructing an individual or group, in any way shape, or form. He put the two elderly, obviously computer illiterate persons who raised their hands only to hide the fact that they did NOT know how to use a computer, on the first two computer tasks. I showed interested and spoke up and asked about the job. I was especially pissed because the first job was taking stacks of processed surveys, scanning them, and putting them into boxes to be wrapped and shipped. Anyone who has worked at GameStop will tell you at least 30% of the job is based solely around scanning, and rescanning barcodes quickly and efficiently. There is also a large portion of the job based around packing boxes. UGH. I watched the guy who was doing it and recognized that he was a pro, and was knocking these things out just about as fast as possible. He told us the rate at which he worked. I could have matched it after the first box. I counted the stack against the wall that had to be done. Really had to be done. The big wigs from D.C. were coming down to see if they hit their processing quota. If they had not, they, and their staff would take all of our jarbs. From my understanding it was based around how many were packed and shipped, ready to go. So, having seen how much work was ahead, I estimated we’d have finished all of it by the end of the day. When I left, it was still about half there. I believe gramps got two boxes done, compared to twenty of the pro’s. There’s a night shift that I bet is working on it right now. The task I got in the end was special. Boy oh boy! Was it special. There were about a thousand binders, some in boxes, some out, lined up about waist high on two short ends of a larger office space. They came from different regions, which they were piled in, but upon further inspection, they also had a 4 digit number on the spine. They are very empty binders so only half the spines showed. It was my task, along with two others, to inventory them. NO WAIT! It’s an hour and a half into it, the new shift boss comes in, butts heads with the current incompetent sexual harassing statement making assclown, and makes us start doing it in a completely different way. Which now, is twice as slow, because she wants us to make a shitty system of cataloging them ‘incase we need to look something up’. Motherfuckers, are you serious? If you need to keep this shit straight, don’t fucking throw it in piles against a wall. Damn it all. I’m not at ALL surprised the census is over budget. Shit, it was over budget before it even began! So I worked for the census before, a month or so back. They fired me when my temp employment was up, which had its own problems, don’t get me started. They rehired me, and made me fill everything out again. There was speculation among us that they were doing this to make inflated numbers of how many jobs were being created. 160,000 thousand census workers? Bullshit. However, this may not be accurate, as on our payment forms, some people had the same number as before. Either way, I’d rather go build a dam.

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Monday, 6/7/2010

Sometimes you just have to unplug the router. So I've been gradually reading the Onslaught Marvel comic series because I heard that after it, they did a major reset of the universe, allowing for new takes (and artists/writers) on the familiar classic stories that everyone grew up loving. By the way, this might be a bit overzealous, but these heroes - Spider-man, the X-Men, Batman, the real heavy-hitters of the genre, hundreds of years from now might be condensed into some sort of Homeric epic. Back to the reset issue. This is a Magic website at heart, so let’s illustrate Magic's reset. It happened most generally, at the point when Wizards of the Coast decided to extending its planning much further down the road than they had before, and with much more cohesion. This notion became sharpened when they changed the essence of how Planeswalker sparks worked and their power levels in the story. Once I heard they were changing that I knew that WotC was ready to reconstruct every aspect of the game to a triple A product. The rules were 'patched' to remove combat stack damage. Planeswalker was added as a sweet new card type. They've planned a ton of sets ahead (I believe 5 or 6), and have a sort of cycle of different types of blocks i.e.: artifact, land, multicolored, creature type, distinct colors, nostalgia set. I believe it was Rosewater that wrote in an article that he's most excited for a set two or three from now because it's a whole new type of block inspiration. I'm stoked. I feel they performed all these changes to reset themselves in a position to maintain a hold of the continuously streaking position of best ccg. Enough years and you get inducted to the hall of fame. Eventually Magic should be right up there with Dungeons & Dragons, which is also a property of WotC. Car companies have been doing major resetting. The Star Wars expanded universe is planned out for about the next 150 years. I believe there is a skeleton storyline that is going to be the basis of all this new fiction. Movies have reset to a new format, 3-D. TVs reset into HD. Star Trek reset. Apple reset. The Presidency reset. History reset. This modern era, our information age, is said to be the end of history. Our energy should hopefully soon be resetting on a larger scale. Resetting seemed to be a symptom of the Great Recession for many industries and intellectual properties. What else has been reset?

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Friday, 6/4/2010

George Washington had it right when he became President, an isolationist policy. Realistically, 100% isolation in this global economy is impossible. But we really need to start being the masters of our own destiny in this country again. I was on a bone cruise with my cousin two weeks ago, rolling through a really nice town full of tall trees, lush lawns, and white nannies. I spied a baseball resting in the center of the street so I slow my roll, open the door, and scoop it up with a fell swoop. A baseball, a genuine piece of Americana. Something so American I assume there are people in Caribbean nations getting made fun of for playing it like we ridicule soccer. On the rear of the baseball, the clean unmarketed side, it read 'China.' Damn it people, we made flight, space travel, and the internet. Why the hell aren't we taking environmentalism by the reins and shaping the global to our economic and industrial will? We need to start building stuff again. More microchips and high end tech. Get those kids in math and science classes. Most of the Midwest is just a giant windy plain. Here's an idea that could save the world and make America the world's best friend. We take away all the farm subsidies. Then we give them rent for using areas of the land for the best wind production and facilities. These power stations are going to require service men and women. Producing jobs, and towns to support them, with all the business and accoutrements that go along with that. With all the renewable energy and focus on we get to work on making travel cheap and energy efficient. That way we get to lose our dependence on OPEC because we won't need the oil. Damn, someone is going to have to replace and build this new infrastructure. More jobs, new industries. New Pittsburghs, new Detroits. This time we'll know about the popping bubbles though. Once we have the cheap shipping, and by this time I assume the food companies are rock bottoming prices in order to compete with each other since they aren't getting PAID TO NOT GROW FOOD, selling those goods to poor starving countries at rates they might be able to afford would be easy. I'm telling you all, vote for me for President and I'll take care of you.

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Wednesday, 6/2/2010

I've been watching 'America: The Story of Us', which is an awesome series if you like history or just want to learn about our nation. You know I'm a history buff and I feel as though these hit the high notes of each time period and give a fantastic feeling of continuity. It leads to one logical progression to the next, with just the right sprinkling of poignant trivia. ANYWAY, there was this one... guest, I presume, 1st Sgt. William Bodette, and he was giving the feel of the hellaous winter at Valley Forge and, may I quote, 'I wish I woulda been there. I wish I coulda fought for him; cuz I sure would have.' And immediately I laughed, and applauded. I thought, do I want someone like this in charge of my military? I do say my, because it's controlled by the citizenship after all. He seemed to be pretty gung-ho about getting in there and beating down. However, I knew with that kind of furor he'd be well-trained, disciplined, and dedicated. Perhaps its not so much going in here to do some ball busting, but to find some purpose. This generation has the War on Terror, but it's much more elusive and dirty of a war. Much like the Vietnam and Korean. Other generations' military have had their character defining wars, but our ambigious enemy in this day and age prevents that rightous sense of victory we achieved from the other conflicts. Our country fought the British Redcoats to gain independence, and that meant using hit-and-run and guerrilla tactics on them. So, seeing how efficent those methods were, why did we get involved in so many activities in the South Pacific, South America, and the Middle East, where those are the standard terms of battle? Are we trying to prove that we can master our previous methods? Answer this analogy: We learned how to beat the British by mimicking Native American tactics; we learned how to beat the Terrorists by mimicking/developing XXXXXX tactics.

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Monday, 5/31/2010

I recently went on a road trip. Specifically, to Annapolis and D.C. Going there and back I traveled approximately 480 miles. In a single person vehicle that is my possession. Like horses of the olden days I used a method of the time to travel a great distance. Humans have come a long way from taking what was sure to have been generations of migration to move nearly 500 miles to a single person being able to do it in an afternoon. By the way, did you know that there have been single person rowboats to have made it across the Atlantic Ocean? Nuts, I know. And that's not even taking into thought air travel. Human beings have engineered flight successfully for just over a century now. Americans got it first, don't forget that World. That's why all pilots are required to understand and speak English as the universal language of the skies. Right now, John is in China. My friend Paul is considering going to Egypt soon. I might be able to get myself to Western Europe on a wing and a prayer this summer. The Earth is vast, 25,000 kilometers at the waist. Information travels those distances as through it was nothing. And recently, 'scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles.' Instant in the literal sense of the word. No transmission signals, nothing but principles of physics and states of matter. They think they might have accidently discovered a new element at the CERN, the world's biggest atom smasher. We're projected to have a fusion power plant in France around 2040-60. Humanity has quite the tech tree coming along. Remember folks, we advance exponentially, using our previous knowledge to fuel our future gains. Trials and tribulations focus our industrialism, such as World War II and Environmentalism. Currently, the world is becoming fat and stagnant. Complacent I feel. I fall victim to this. With no common threat or issue, people look inwards and think individually. Humans are always more powerful when acting in collaboration. While I do not watch the World Cup events, I do admire them greatly; it brings the World together as few stimuli have the power to do. It promotes the Earth as a brand. Being an Earthling, I can get behind that.

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Friday, 5/28/2010

Hello Boy-o's. I've been reinspired by the springtime and the energy surrounding the planning of the trip on the forums to recommence posting on a regular basis. However, since there has (at least currently) been a hiatus on user created content, the cards that come up for the next posts might be a mix of forgotten gems or classic Type Fun Alpha cards that need voting upon. It's nice to be back.

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Sunday, 5/2/2010

About Us

After the grab-bag draft at MTD club on Friday, it became clear to me what Type Fun is really all about. Type Fun began when we took a favorite game and warped it to our whims. That game happened to be Magic: The Gathering's Type Four, or possibly even Five-Color, but the spirit of Type Fun is not limited to a specific format. For instance, Sara Sukenik's idea of the grab bag draft was creative and lots of fun — to randomly draft every set from Magic's history. Unfortunately we couldn't afford Alpha to Unlimited packs. I opened an Exodus pack, a 4th Edition pack, and finally a Judgement pack. Of course all sorts of other things came around. I was especially pleased to pick up a Diabolic Servitude that got passed my way, (3rd pick). And my black/white deck included one of my old favorite cross-set, same artist, mini-combos, Angelic Renewal and Auramancer.

I did a fair share of buttwhoopin, and ended the night undefeated as we split the prize in the top 4.

...Back to my original point. Sara's grap-bag draft idea was simple and effective, and free! This is the sort of thing TypeFun.org should start documenting. Divergent ways of amusing ourselves. That's how MTD started. We loved to drink. We loved to play cards. So the two were combined into Magic: The Drinking. Simple. Too effective. Another Type Fun example is "Truth or Dare Poker," a variant of Texas Hold'em we concocted at Andrey's place in Fort Lee to teach new players Poker without hustling any money out of them, though still maintaining the Poker requirement that something must be staked to support a realistic betting system. To quote Ade, "Your money's no good here, but your pride is." The rules change in this variant was only that when you ran out of chips, you were subjected to Truth or Dare. Then, depending on how amused your opponents were by your answer/performance, each opponent would give you a number of chips relative to his or her level of amusement, if you wanted back in the game. Making up game variants like these is really what Type Fun is and always has been about. I hope to alter this site soon* to reflect this sentiment, and encourage users and visitors to be creative with fun, no matter what kind of fun it may be.

-ethan

*Soon is always an optimistic term around here. Don't hold your breath.

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Wednesday, 3/24/2010

I may have been out of the loop for a while...

Gotta change the wallpaper around here.

Noticed this guy at MTG Salvation. Check it out

Yes, one of those cards you really don't want to see in my hands, but also part of another group of nasties—those that get shuffled back into the deck. We already have a ban on searching the deck because it takes so long, why not ban the opposite, shuffling stuff back in? It saves us time, and makes the games more interesting in the long term as we see new more cards as opposed to the same ones coming back. It's good for my ADHD. You know you want to do the very thing Wizards doesn't want us doing, reanimating the huge buggers!

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Saturday, 3/13/2010

Apparently there was no MTG club draft at Rutgers last night. A few other people were there who didn't get the memo. That wasn't so bad, though. I got a chance to meet somebody new and introduce a new player to Type Fun. Another good outcome I am excited to report is a rant in progress. The certain someone I met last night, who wishes to rant anonymously, has a funny, accurate, depressing and informative rant on...

Strippers.

I hope it will be posted on our forum soon!

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Tuesday, 2/2/2010

Game Nite was officially a success. We brought in money for the center, and a lot of canned goods and medical supplies were donated for the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. The director suggested that Game Nite become a regular event, on a quarterly basis. Next time, we'll do some things differently, though:

1. We'll start later, probably around 7pm... It's game nite after all.
2. Munchkin should become a regular feature.
3. We should promote the cash poker aspect more, as apparently there are few places to play poker in Jersey City.
4. And we will avoid other events which draw in gamers, like prereleases!

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