One for Trading Standards I feel

Saw this ad in The Source, a freebie thing I pick up in Durham and nearly spat my tea out.

I would stake my plums on the number of "His and Hers" Magic - The Gathering (tm) players being no more than the faces on a D12. Let's look at the two major problems here.

1. It's a card game.. Not a popular pastime with the ladies, except maybe Victoria Coren
2. It's based on Magic and Fantasy. again, not a subject matter they're big on.
3. Jeez even the model looks like she's faking it!

Who knows maybe I'm out of touch, perhaps I should go along to M-Fest in Brum next weekend? All I'll say is that from my boyhood dabbling with Games Workshop products in the early 90s, they're not exactly babe magnets.

Caption time. what would you put in a thought bubble from his/her head? maybe him thinking

"Yes! Now all I need is the Verdeloth the Ancient card and that pink top is coming off!"

However this blog post would seem to prove me wrong

magicflunkies.wordpress.com/2006/07/12/magic-the-gatherin...

and there's this from Urban Dic www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Magic%3A+the+Gath...

Finally I feel the handheld games industry should counter with a hard hitting campaign of it's own.