There are no set cards necessary to play a game, most any group of cards available in a basic starter set will do. In addition to that marketing ploy, however, the game manufacturers include in the occasional pack a certain rare and especially useful card, rare because they make it so, and go to great lengths to advertise these in their trade journals and Web sites. They are given trading prices well in excess of their face value among other cards in a pack. With this impetus, the trading of cards among friends and gaming associates takes on a real financial aspect in addition to a gaming aspect. In some circles, kids become obsessed with their collections and their trading value, and can spend easily hundreds if not thousands of dollars in search of the holy grail of cards, sometimes only to lose them at school or elsewhere to tricksters or thieves or their own absent-mindedness, at great emotional loss.
Many schools ban the cards from school grounds and activities.
Others may wonder why this practice is any different than collecting baseball cards, or buying Cracker Jacks for the prize. Note the transcript of the Good Morning America segment discussing this lawsuit. Over 23 years representing those injured or killed by the fault of others. Experienced Orange County certified family law specialist. Information on custody, support, visitation, property and other California law issues.