Magic The Addiction

Magic: The Addiction, p.n. nickname for Magic: The Gathering, a card-based strategy game, so called for the degree of obsession so many of its players have in playing it, and the amount of money they must continue to spend on supplemental cards for the game. [BAL] Also Five-Color Crack. [BF] See Gamer Crack. See also collectible card game.
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Addendum: It is this lexicographer's theory that Wizards of the Coast, makers of this addictive card game, put addictive mind-control chemicals on the cards to take control over the players - the more rare the card, the more potent the chemical. Eventually Wizards of the Coast will call forth their armies of mindless zombies for some nefarious purpose, but it escapes the cognitive abilities of this lexicographer what an army of Magic: The Gathering players could possibly accomplish. [BAL]