Hm. I can honestly say that even as much of a MTG geek as i was a while back, i had never heard of Type P before your introduction of it here. Sounds rather fascinating. I must ask (just to satisfy curiosity): what sets were you using as your card pool?
Sara and I have played Settlers of Catan with some friends and enjoyed it quite a lot. Sara did what she usually does at games she’s never played before: she beat the heck out of me and most everyone else.
We were using mostly Ravnica stuff, and specifically Guildpact… but the dealers were running dry on Guildpact so by the time we decided to start switching to the bigger Fat Pack-sized Type P decks (which we dubbed P-Hat) we were buying every vendor’s Fat Packs we could get our hands on. Eventually a few of us had to buy Dissension Fat Packs but we traded around so everyone had some Dissension and some Ninth Edition cards to use on our P-Hats.
The real brilliance of the Type-P is that it literally doesn’t matter what you use. You could do Type-P with Revised starters and boosters if you still had them, so long as everyone had their own Revised P-decks or no one used banned or restricted cards. I’m not familair enough with the various blocks to say for sure but I’m guessing that most of the people I watched play or played against were using a variety of decks from as far back as the Mirrodin block.
Nikki is becoming more dangerous to me (in financial terms that is) at cons: She picked up the 5-6 player expansion for Settlers so perhaps when we come out to visit you guys for the holidays we can get a full-family Settlers game going with Mom and Dad. She’s also trying to do the eBay thing for a cheap copy of Seafarers of Catan which adds a bunch of water tiles to the board which you cross with little ship markers (that act a lot like roads). Plus they also put a pirate ship on there in addition to the robber, so it adds a few new elements. Pretty fun.
I realize this comment is a bit out of date, but i just remembered that i had posted my previous comment and wanted to see your response. So…
I quit playing Magic right about the time Ravnica came out (i bought a Fat Pack and didn’t even open all of it – speaking of, I *am* trying to rid myself of the 4,500 or so cards i currently have on hand; my plan at the moment is eBay, but i’m open to other ideas if you have them), so I don’t really know if it’s a fun set to play with or not. Seems mostly that it would be rather diverse and interesting.
Regarding Settlers, I’m fully down with any type of the game we play when y’all are out here. Lately I’ve been clued in to a computerized version called Pioneers, which is open source and can be played over the ‘Net. However, I don’t think there is a Mac version of the game; there is a Windows version of the client, though. If you’ve got a Windows or Linux box, maybe some Saturday we can get organized and play a round or two. Pioneers also has the Seafarers (at least most of it) expansion built in, along with a bunch of interesting scenarios. It’s worth checking out. Try pio.sourceforge.net.
Scott:
May 31st, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Hm. I can honestly say that even as much of a MTG geek as i was a while back, i had never heard of Type P before your introduction of it here. Sounds rather fascinating. I must ask (just to satisfy curiosity): what sets were you using as your card pool?
Sara and I have played Settlers of Catan with some friends and enjoyed it quite a lot. Sara did what she usually does at games she’s never played before: she beat the heck out of me and most everyone else.
ironsoap:
June 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
We were using mostly Ravnica stuff, and specifically Guildpact… but the dealers were running dry on Guildpact so by the time we decided to start switching to the bigger Fat Pack-sized Type P decks (which we dubbed P-Hat) we were buying every vendor’s Fat Packs we could get our hands on. Eventually a few of us had to buy Dissension Fat Packs but we traded around so everyone had some Dissension and some Ninth Edition cards to use on our P-Hats.
The real brilliance of the Type-P is that it literally doesn’t matter what you use. You could do Type-P with Revised starters and boosters if you still had them, so long as everyone had their own Revised P-decks or no one used banned or restricted cards. I’m not familair enough with the various blocks to say for sure but I’m guessing that most of the people I watched play or played against were using a variety of decks from as far back as the Mirrodin block.
Nikki is becoming more dangerous to me (in financial terms that is) at cons: She picked up the 5-6 player expansion for Settlers so perhaps when we come out to visit you guys for the holidays we can get a full-family Settlers game going with Mom and Dad. She’s also trying to do the eBay thing for a cheap copy of Seafarers of Catan which adds a bunch of water tiles to the board which you cross with little ship markers (that act a lot like roads). Plus they also put a pirate ship on there in addition to the robber, so it adds a few new elements. Pretty fun.
scott:
June 27th, 2006 at 6:14 am
I realize this comment is a bit out of date, but i just remembered that i had posted my previous comment and wanted to see your response. So…
I quit playing Magic right about the time Ravnica came out (i bought a Fat Pack and didn’t even open all of it – speaking of, I *am* trying to rid myself of the 4,500 or so cards i currently have on hand; my plan at the moment is eBay, but i’m open to other ideas if you have them), so I don’t really know if it’s a fun set to play with or not. Seems mostly that it would be rather diverse and interesting.
Regarding Settlers, I’m fully down with any type of the game we play when y’all are out here. Lately I’ve been clued in to a computerized version called Pioneers, which is open source and can be played over the ‘Net. However, I don’t think there is a Mac version of the game; there is a Windows version of the client, though. If you’ve got a Windows or Linux box, maybe some Saturday we can get organized and play a round or two. Pioneers also has the Seafarers (at least most of it) expansion built in, along with a bunch of interesting scenarios. It’s worth checking out. Try pio.sourceforge.net.