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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5311103" data-attributes="member: 957">Early on in the existence of MTG Richard Garfield wrote an article about how the existence of MTG was strongly influenced by Cosmic Encounters.First Aside: I have no doubt that if anyone other than Garfield had written this there would have been immediate howls of outrage that any comparison whatsoever be offered between MTG and any other prior game.Richard's point was that Cosmic Encounters is the exceptions based design core idea and MTG just takes that to 11.  In CE your race is the exception.  In MTG every spell card is an exception.Obviously, RPGs are highly exception based.  But the exceptions tend to be far greater in number and more abstract.  Also, they tend to be a note on a sheet of paper referencing a rule in a book, rather than a physical card with the rule written on it.It isn't anything new to point out that 4E fits the "deck" mold better than most RPGs.Second Aside: That is NOT a claim that 4e = MTG.Red Box doesn't bring power cards and decks into 4e, or RPGs for that matter.  But it does bring "starter decks" into it.</blockquote>