More than 30 years after Magic: The Gathering first hit shelves, its biggest impact in Orange County isn’t just on the tabletop; it’s in the communities forming around it at local card shops. Card games have always been a great way to pass the time, whether it be poker, Texas hold’em, or Yu-Gi-Oh!
MTG was created in 1993 by Richard Garfield and was later acquired by Wizards of the Coast. The game has been the main outline for other card games that have followed, such as the “Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game” and the “Pokémon TCG.”
According to Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the popular manga series and card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, he was a fan of MTG before creating his manga. Takahashi used it as the inspiration for the creation of his fictional card game in the series before it later became a real card game…