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Legal System: The Gathering. What if law could be learned through a very complicated collectable card game?

Dec 27, 2021

Games, Law, Government, & Politics

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Background: Most legal systems are extraordinarily complicated and are full of strange rules and loopholes, so the average person has a very superficial understanding of law (as practiced in movies) at best. Just like law, there’s another popular pastime that’s full of rules, thousands of pages of errata, and millions of Internet posts arguing about…
Is the U.S. Tax Code more complicated than Magic: The Gathering? The answer may surprise you!

Apr 11, 2016

Art, Games, Law, Government, & Politics

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Background: Some games are notorious for having extremely complex rulesets. For example, the card game Magic: The Gathering has pages and pages of additional rules, commentary, and clarification. An actual example: “8/1/2005 Goblin King now has the Goblin creature type and its ability has been reworded to affect *other* Goblins. This means that if two…