The Attractiveness of Rules

In my last post, I mentioned Cassidy's Magic: The Gathering card. It's been a little project I've been working on to create cards for the people I know. So far it's been mostly comedians. I think I'm working on the project mainly because (a) it's fun and (b) I love games with sets of rules and (c) who doesn't want to have Trample and Flying?

There's something attractive about summing something up in a brief little card form. It's completely nerdy - at that crossroads of nerdy, philosophical, and mathematical, which, I suppose, just means nerdy - in trying to create the platonic type of the person in card form.

It's also fun.

I've missed playing collectible card games recently. I haven't mainly because when I played as a kid, players at my school were pretty much equally constrained by money and time. But playing against adults mean you either bring your A-game or go home crying.

I suppose creating a special set is sort of a way to relive those days as well as exercise my creative muscle without worrying about impressing anyone.

Here are some cards I've made. Yes, I know this is relatively pathetic.