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Message no. 1
From: "M. Sean Martinez" <ElBandit@***.COM>
Subject: WOTC/FASA
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:23:19 -0400
>WOTC bought out AEG, who AFAIK own'ed Shadis magazine, and Legend of
>the 5 Rings which is another fairly large card game.. biggest
>competition Magic had at least... and if you think WotC is a softly..
>*chuckle* I betcha they said the same thing about Microsoft when it
>first started :)

AEG represented only 2% of the card game market according to comic retailer.
WOTC makes up 70% of the card market.

-Bandit

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