New Card: Asylum

Some free time, so I worked on a couple more cards.

Full disclosure: it's been a while since I've been able to play, so it's hard to gauge the ability of the card, whether it's useful or not. It could be mean in combination with other cards. Or maybe not.

Again, the lightning bolt symbol was just handy. I don't have a new or theme for any imaginary expansion sets.

The original image is Asylum by Sandara, 2012.

Comments are welcome.

Spell: Asylum

Asylum, Spell, Up 14. Play during primary match-ups. remove 1 Creature with Vitality 5 or less from play. It becomes Unchallenged in melee, but can be attacked by secondary attackers.

I don't have any game card notes, except that I liked the picture when I saw it, and tried to think what effect might go well with the name "Asylum".

New Card: Death's Library

I've been wanting to do another card since I posted the first one. I just haven't had the time with so many other things to worry about.

Full disclosure: it's been a while since I've been able to play, so it's hard to gauge the ability of the card, whether it's useful or not. It could be mean in combination with other cards. Or maybe not.

Again, the lightning bolt symbol was just handy. I don't have a new or theme for any imaginary expansion sets.

The original image is Death's Library by La-Chapeliere-Folle, 2016.

Comments are welcome.

Spell: Death's Library

Death's Library, Spell, Up 28. Choose up to 2 Creature & 2 Spell cards from your discard pile. Reveal & Shuffle them into your deck. For each card you took, remove the top card of your Deck from the game.

If you take 2 cards from your discard, then you remove the top two cards from the game. You shouldn't look at them. You shouldn't know what is gone.

The cards need to be revealed that you are taking only Creature and Spell cards, and not going over the limit. No Artifacts.

New Card: Lady Bard

I was looking at an image that was meant to be a Writing Prompt. Instead it prompted me to create a new Guardians card, something that I haven't done in many years.

My apologies if I made any mistakes on the formatting. It's been a while. I couldn't even find templates online anymore. I worked with what I found.

The lightning bolt symbol was just handy. I don't have a new or theme for any imaginary expansion sets.

The original image is Medieval Idol by Namgwon Lee. I don't know the year for the image.

Comments are welcome.

Mortal: Lady Bard

Lady Bard: Mortal, Vitality 4, M, Misc. Human, Gold, red bar.
C: Choose one option when played
1: All Mortals bribable by Beer are +4.
2: All Mortals defeated by a primary opponent with a lower Vitality are returned to the Shield after Combat.

Note that it says "defeated", so "bribed" or "destroyed" cards are not affected. And they come back after the winner has been declared for the battle.

So I Met James Warhola and Didn't Realize It

I was at the After-life Launch for author C. J. Henderson yesterday, who was a familiar figure at Lunacon, where I could say that I knew "of" him more than I knew him. This CJ-Con was a party in his honor and a celebration of his life. I was hesitant about attending, but the family did want to see a nice showing of people and, unlike people who drove hours to be there, it was less than a mile walk from my house.

As could be expected, there were many other authors in attendance, many old friends who traveled the same con circuit and probably worked for the same companies at one time or another. I tried not to act the over-eager fanboy (it's been a long time since I was a "boy"). Any conversation should be about C. J. or movies or general topics and not, say, talking Patrick Thomas's ear off about Murphy's Lore.

Anyway, there was a facebook page dedicated to the event, and there were supposed to be live updates during the event for those who couldn't make it. (Technical issues, that didn't happen.) But I was looking at the pictures today, and there's a picture of James Warhola, standing in the Art Room, in front of illustrations he did for C. J.'s books. I had met him earlier, but didn't know who he was. He wasn't wearing a name tag (yes, we had those), and I felt odd just asking random people "who are you". If we had exchanged any words, it was probably about the food or where the nearest trash can was. Again, not to be a gushing fanboy, but I probably would have mentioned Guardians and enjoying his work. Granted, off the top of my head, I couldn't have named any cards in particular to claim as my favorite, but I would have said something. Not that I would've brought cards for him to have signed -- it may have been a celebration, but that still would've been tacky.

Photo by Michael H. Hanson Author-Poet‎, CJ-Con - The Afterlife Launch, 8/16/14
Originally posted publicly to Facebook.

Guardians Page Reborn!

C. J. Burke's Guardians Page has found a new, maybe temporary, maybe not, home at:

http://www.mrburkemath.net/guardians/

No ".html" needed. Just go to that directory as you did in the old days.

Right now, the pages were uploaded as they were. I haven't updated them for about seven years now. I'll get to that.

Please ignore all references to the io.com domain -- and that includes the e-mail address!

Be sure to come back here with Suggestions and Comments.

Enjoy.

It's Gone, But Not Forgotten ...

July 1 has come and gone, and with it, all my old pages.

However, I spent the last two days of June using an old ftp program and copied all (or almost all) of the files I had there, trying to keep the directory structures in tact. (For one thing, I had a million files named INDEX.HTML and DATA.

My next little side project will be to go through those pages, remove the references to the old domain, and upload them somewhere. Possibly mrburkemath.net, owned by yours truly, Mr. Burke, who teaches math.

Yes, I'm known by many names.

Why a math site? For one thing, I already own the site for my job. Second, I don't want to pay for another site to hold, essentially, ten megabytes of information. And, finally, it is conceivable that someone, some day, could come along and say, "Hey, you can't have tannikermsith.net! That's our intellectual property!"

And, no, I wouldn't argue with someone about that. I may have taken on that identity because it's a cool name, but I wouldn't challenge the creator for not protecting it.

C.J. Burke's Guardians Page is Going Away

My original page, which I haven't updated in many, many years, will finally be coming down. Not because I've lost interest in the game -- although I can't find an opponent to play against locally.

No, the fact is that the domain name io.com has been sold (again), and everyone is being evicted. A quick summary can be found here.

I've only kept that account for Guardians web page and some other files I had there. Those URLs are archived in more places than I could imagine, and they still get hits. I know, because even though I only check that email every couple months (a lot of spam gets through the filter, so it's bothersome), I still get email about the old stuff. (Guardians and Car Wars, mostly.)

If the name has to change, and I'm losing something I've had for most of two decades, then there's no reason to keep the account at all. I can move the pages elsewhere. It's just a matter of figuring out where.