Well, I knew that you could battle (with) the cards. But I didn't know that there were actual events, and that you could win more cards and go different places.

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

He had a deck that, if it was set up, could pretty much overpower mine. My deck was doing fast damage, and his was about healing. He just kept healing the damage off. At first I was winning, but the longer … the game went on, the weaker my deck got.

Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.

This clearly has nothing to do with human agency. These dispersal events happened long before humans were around.

It's just so expensive to put on these events it just made it very difficult to continue without a title sponsor. We probably could have run the tournament, but we probably wouldn't have been able to give this kind of money to charity.