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xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game

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I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

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There was something about mtg that just smelled wrong so I stopped playing it. It was the real life gambling aimed at elementary schoolers/middle schoolers but it's totally not gambling if it's card packs thing, then you put a veneer of a game on the other side of it. Don't get me started on the game.