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Theros-Themed Magic: The Gathering Oracle (similar to Tarot) Deck Coming Soon (articles.starcitygames.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MysticKetchup@lemmy.world to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I'm just no fun, but it makes me uneasy to see WotC/Hasbro lending any kind of credibility to what appears to be the latest fad in fortune-telling. I think we have a lot of evidence, here in 2024, that an excess of credulity is actually a fairly serious problem for humans as a species.

I'm here trying to do some web searching to gauge where this lies on the scale of "it's just some pretty art, nobody takes it seriously" to "ignore the cards at your peril", and it may not be all the way at the end, but I'm not super reassured by what I'm reading.

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's fair, I think people can sometimes be weird with things like tarot or astrology, but all of my IRL experience with people doing tarot is that they're doing it for fun and treat it like a fortune cookie. Also some people (like me!) will buy a tarot deck for the art and don't do anything with it. It can be hard to gauge online when there's so many weirdos on the internet.

And in terms of scummy things WotC will do for money, this is still on the lower end of the scale compared to some of the shit they've gotten up to

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 2 points 8 months ago

That's true; this certainly doesn't bother me as much as stuff like, say, hiring the Pinkertons.

[–] andrew@mtgzone.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Related thread: https://mtgzone.com/post/490745

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah geez, somehow missed that one