I remember when all my friends in high school got into MtG. They wanted me to play, and I said, "okay, but I'm going to make my own cards." You know, xerox so

I remember when all my friends in high school got into MtG. They wanted me to play, and I said, "okay, but I'm going to make my own cards." You know, xerox some cards and laminate them myself. I was cheap. I wasn't about to pay real money for a bunch of fancy cardboard. None of them would go for it. I tried and tried to get them to understand that there wasn't anything special about the WotC cards, I said "You know there are no real wizards at Wizards of the Coast, right?" These are "magic" cards, not magic cards, eh? But they wouldn't have it. I gotta hand it to these folks. They convinced a generation that you have to pay them to use your own imagination. Maybe they are real wizards?