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Posted By: jay behrens

I owned my gaming and comic store when the Magic: The Gathering collectible card craze hit. A regular customer, and one of the topped ranked players in the world, had cards that were so beat up because he refused to use card sleeves like everyone else. People around the store would call beat up cards, Kelly Cards. We sponsored our top players and paid their expenses to travel to pro tour stops. It wasn't long before we started hearing people at the pro tour stops and all around CA talking about "Kelly Cards". It was always funny to see people take a look at his cards and tell him he had cards that would make Kelly proud, then tell them that he was The Kelly.

The one thing that I really loved about the CCGs was that, even though money changed hands for the cards, there was much more trading than money changing hands. You don't see that with baseball cards anymore.

Jay

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