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Playing cards can be a nexus of strong emotions and violence, and they exemplify the uncertainty of life and the greed/addictive tendencies of living things. Fr
by xkcd-sucks 8y ago
Playing cards can be a nexus of strong emotions and violence, and they exemplify the uncertainty of life and the greed/addictive tendencies of living things. From that perspective then seem as much a magical talisman as chicken guts and such.
From the other direction, a card shark might say that doing magic with cards makes it a practical skill and takes away the magic :)
- krapp 8y agoI believe tarot cards started out as simple playing cards. I suppose if one could do "real magic" with cards, divination would probably make more sense then sleight of hand. If you could actually control probability and make small objects appear and disappear through physical manipulation then there would be much better uses for that then street magic.