"Business-wise, Magic is working—Bloomberg reported
that the game brought in $500 million in revenue last year.
Hasbro owns Monopoly and Scrabble, but Magic is its top
game brand. . . .
The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story has
precedent—the Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
generated an entire novel based on drawing from a
tarot card deck. Games provide frameworks that miniaturize
and represent idealized realities; so do narratives."
— Adam Rogers, Sunday, July 21, 2019, at Wired
"The Esper party began . . ." —
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Life of the Party From Stephen King's Dreamcatcher :
From Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man :
From Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus :
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Adam Rogers at Wired as quoted above —
"The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story
has precedent. . . ."
See The Greater Trumps .