Cards and Boards: House of cards

In the cards: The TCG that that started it all - Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering.

Get started on a hobby that involves lots of cards and has a digital counterpart.

It did not seem like too long ago that ­trading card games (TCGs) were the poster boys of games played over tables. (As ­purists will tell you, TCGs and their ilk are not tabletop games because they are not based on miniatures.)