Paraprasing a friend of <Ciro Santilli>:
> <Magic: The Gathering> is like <cocaine> in card form.

Luckily, early teens <Ciro Santilli> was partly protected from this by <Ciro Santilli's cheapness>.

But Ciro distinctly remembers one day in his early teens that he couldn't sleep very well, and he got up, and the was decided that he would become the greatest <Magic: The Gathering> player who ever lived. Can you imagine the incredible loss that this would have been to humankind? And talk about the incredible lack of development opportunity present in poor countries, related:
* <Brazil>
* <what poor countries have to do to get richer/pick few good bets>


Magic the gathering is addictive

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