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My OkCupid Affair With A World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player

This story sounds mean. It’s about a girl judging a boy because he’s a nerd (like so many of us!) that she met on OkCupid. But that’s the point: Judging people on shallow stuff is human nature, and the magic and absurdity of online dating is how immediately and directly it throws that into relief. One person’s Magic is another person’s fingernail biting, and no profile in the world is deep enough to account for that.


December 23, 2010
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It Takes A Wizard To Steal $US45,000 Worth Of Magic Cards

A former Wizards of the Coast employee from Burien, Washington, stands to lose a lot more than his job as King County prosecutors file felony theft charges over the theft of $US45,000 worth of rare Magic: The Gathering cards.