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it was called REDEMPTION

The longest-running continuously-in-print collectible card game is Magic: the Gathering.

The second longest-running continously-in-print collectible card game is not Pokemon, not Yu-Gi-Oh, but Redemption CCG, a game that looks like that.

Illustration credits range from Mark Poole (of MTG fame) to Raphael (of "School of Athens" fame). Cards have text like "If used by a flood survivor or evil antediluvian". There's a rules-meaningful difference between a card being green, teal, or pale green. The order of continuous effects is solved by partitioning all abilities into "rock", "paper", and "scissors", with the winner of that RPS applying first.

Best of all, the Third Edition rules tell us "If you have a question, please look it up in your Bible. Read all relevant verses given in Scripture. If you find any mistakes, please write and tell us."

we are considering if we should experience debating the idea of looking into commissioning a five year study weighing the benefits and impacts of a pilot program which, if successful, would lead to modifications to the articulated ("bendy") busses in our fleet, to enable them to produce a sound when flexing the bellowed vestibule which is akin to that of an accordion

I bought my wife and I a hand painted Demon Bowl for the house, just to be safe

me: idk babe what demon bowl do you want?

her: ooo get the two figures one, they look gay

If you're curious here's the wiki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incantation_bowl

it's a practice of early protective magic from mesopotamia thought to trap demons or ward evil spirits and a local museum sent me a fucking coupon code for them lmao

local museum sells a stack of ancient demon bowls. what could possibly go wrong?

seems like a cheap replica of a bespoke magical artifact designed to trap a demon would succeed only in replicating the trapped demon ~Chara

so that's the thing that's fucking me up, like, these are replicas sure

but they're made in the same region of the world as the originals were, out of the same material, and reportedly hand painted as the originals were. and, important to note, the originals were mass produced commodities that every house had so them being made at scale doesn't really cheapen it.

as far as I can tell the only things really different from the original and the replica is time and intent which,, are not things you can really point to lol

not only were the originals mass produced, many of them have complete gibberish written on them because they were painted by illiterate fake scribes trying to scam illiterate customers with something that looks like a protective bowl! and yeah replicating them wouldn't worry me because the idea is that like, you put it in your basement and passing demons will get stuck there instead of getting into your house, rather than it being made to contain a specific demon. like putting out a trap for fruit flies or something

Calling it a fruit fly trap is so apt omg

also fun fact, I was looking into if im even allowed to own one of these while converting to Judaism, feels like something that would be frowned upon, but apparently incantation bowls were a surprisingly Jewish practice? Seems like a sizable chunk of the ones we've found were made by or for jews during the Babylon exhile, they frequently had rabbinical text as the incantation, it was just a thing everyone in that region did as a matter of course regardless or religion or group. also wildly enough the Talmud even specifies that they're one of the few things that is okay to carry on shabbat lmao

There's even an article on My Jewish Learning about them https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/magic-bowls/

I bought my wife and I a hand painted Demon Bowl for the house, just to be safe

me: idk babe what demon bowl do you want?

her: ooo get the two figures one, they look gay

If you're curious here's the wiki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incantation_bowl

it's a practice of early protective magic from mesopotamia thought to trap demons or ward evil spirits and a local museum sent me a fucking coupon code for them lmao

local museum sells a stack of ancient demon bowls. what could possibly go wrong?

seems like a cheap replica of a bespoke magical artifact designed to trap a demon would succeed only in replicating the trapped demon ~Chara

so that's the thing that's fucking me up, like, these are replicas sure

but they're made in the same region of the world as the originals were, out of the same material, and reportedly hand painted as the originals were. and, important to note, the originals were mass produced commodities that every house had so them being made at scale doesn't really cheapen it.

as far as I can tell the only things really different from the original and the replica is time and intent which,, are not things you can really point to lol