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Lost in the Shuffle: Games Within Games | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

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Long ago, in the time before time, there was The Duelist, a monthly magazine about Magic and gaming that was the predecessor to this very site. And in The Duelist, Richard Garfield, creator of Magic, wrote a near-monthly column called Lost in the Shuffle, which we've already archived some of here. Dr. Garfield did (and does!) a great deal of thinking on the subject of games, and Lost in the Shuffle let him share those thoughts with the public in small, digestible snippets. Early in the column's run, Lost in the Shuffle was longer and more involved than it later became—something I can certainly sympathize with as a former weekly column author. And while I think the shorter format ended up working better for what Lost in the Shuffle was, the earlier, longer columns let the good doctor tackle bigger questions ... such as, in this column from The Duelist #5, the metagame. Now, when Dr. Garfield says "metagame," he's talking about something a little broader than the tournament-focused meani

News / Feature Long ago, in the time before time, there was The Duelist , a monthly magazine about Magic and gaming that was the predecessor to this very site. And in The Duelist , Richard Garfield, creator of Magic , wrote a near-monthly column called Lost in the Shuffle, which we've already archived some of here . Dr. Garfield did (and does!) a great deal of thinking on the subject of games, and Lost in the Shuffle let him share those thoughts with the public in small, digestible snippets. Early in the column's run, Lost in the Shuffle was longer and more involved than it later became—someth

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