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Change the Magic to Spell


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Nope. Every card in MTG is a Magic: the Gathering card.

 

Yu-Gi-Oh! was originally called "Magic and Wizards" in the first debut of the card game. It was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime and manga when there was an uproar on how the manga should focus on the card game, due to the fact that the quite obvious nod to Magic the Gathering and Wizards of the Coast pioneering the TCG stage could cause trouble in the long run. Magic cards (the ones today known as Spell cards) are still in reference to MTG because, quite frankly, just saying "Magic" makes people think of MTG. So it doesn't matter if you call them "Magic Cards," "MTG cards," "The Gathering cards," etc. Because there was such a close similarity, Konami and Shonen Jump wanted to avoid a lawsuit for infringement and renamed the cards in October of 2003.

 

Your trivia for the day, serving to quell sass since 1996. 

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The site didn't even exist in 2002-2003 so yeah this shouldn't be there.

Wow really then all the more reason to. Actually, I pretty much knew this, it just never came to mind to think of both that and what this topic is about at the same time.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! was originally called "Magic and Wizards" in the first debut of the card game. It was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime and manga when there was an uproar on how the manga should focus on the card game, due to the fact that the quite obvious nod to Magic the Gathering and Wizards of the Coast pioneering the TCG stage could cause trouble in the long run. Magic cards (the ones today known as Spell cards) are still in reference to MTG because, quite frankly, just saying "Magic" makes people think of MTG. So it doesn't matter if you call them "Magic Cards," "MTG cards," "The Gathering cards," etc. Because there was such a close similarity, Konami and Shonen Jump wanted to avoid a lawsuit for infringement and renamed the cards in October of 2003.

 

Your trivia for the day, serving to quell sass since 1996. 

But where would you ever state Magic Cards in a talk about YGO? No one would be annoyed, and this trivia is pointless for that idea. No one would be confused by Magic/Trap being right near a YGO card when there is already the Spell Type of card. 

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Protip: Dae only supports thing Goose supports. 

The site didn't even exist in 2002-2003 so yeah this shouldn't be there.

 

But actually right. It isn't like anyone would be confused. But that piece of trivia states it was done to avoid a lawsuit and now here were are, with technically the wrong term on a site made after the term was changed, but it's only in one place not many would notice most of the time. So it's still pretty much unimportant compared to other things, but it's still being pointed out for some reason. Also i made the thread that let people be more aware of that pointing out, so idk why I'm saying this.

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