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// The forces of Light united can never be defeated 
// Story: The Equestrian Card Wars of 2013 
// by Daedalus Aegle 
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	"Another Strionic Resonator," Lyra said unhappily, dropping the final bunch of cards down on the table with all the others. "That's so useless... What did you get?"

"Hold on," Bon Bon said. "Okay, I got, oh wow..." She looked at the cards she had just extracted from the plastic wrapper. "That one's shiny..."

"Are you kidding me?!" Lyra glanced over Bon Bon's shoulder. "Two mythics in the same booster?!"

"What's that now?"

"Look," Lyra pointed at a little mark on the card, beneath the artwork. "The set mark is a burning reddish orange-y color. That means it's a mythic rare card, they're the rarest and most powerful cards in the game. I bought like thirty boosters without getting one, and you got two of them at once."

"One of them is all shiny too," Bon Bon said happily as Lyra twisted and groaned, angrily running her hooves over her head and the back of her neck. Bon Bon frowned. "What are you doing?"

"Stupid hooves!" Lyra glared at her forehooves.

Bon Bon's face sank into her accustomed exasperated look for these situations. "This is one of those human things again, isn't it?"

"I am trying to tear my mane in frustration! It doesn't work without fingers. I could use magic but it would look stupid."

"I think we're far past that point, dear," Bon Bon said flatly. "This whole game looks pretty much like the nerdiest thing ever. Where did you hear about this anyway?"

"At my weekly obsessive interests support group," Lyra said. "Twilight brought a bunch of her decks and showed them to everyone."

"And you decided to go with it and buy thirty packs of cards at once because...?"

Lyra mumbled something under her breath.

"What was that?"

"...Twilight said I could make a human-themed deck."