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* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s Time Spiral block, whose set theme was [[Nostalgia Level|nostalgia]], is naturally full of [[Easter Egg|Easter Eggs]] and other little jokes about cards from older sets. For example: in the flavor text of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=111082 Viscid Lemures], [[Lovable Coward|Norin the Wary]] remarks that it's nice to face something harmless, like a lemur. On the (much) earlier [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2457 Hyalopterous Lemure], the artist had apparently never heard of a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Lemures "lemure"], so the card is illustrated with a lemur.
** The ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140703234258/http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Lhurgoyf Lhurgoyf]'' card had the flavour text "Ach! Hans, run! It's the Lhurgoyf!". Much later, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5211 a card with a similar power] had the flavor text "Not again", attributed to Hans.
*** And in Time Spiral, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=113540 Saffi Eriksdotter], who said the immortal line, became a card in her own right. Hans, unfortunately, did not survive to get his own.
*** That phrase also became an [http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAGUNH/achhansrun.jpg Unglued card]{{Dead link}}. It summons a creature for one turn if the player says, "Ach Hans! Run, it's the..."
** The card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194975 Lotus Petal] is a weakened version of the [[Game Breaker]] card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=600 Black Lotus] - and its flavor text is a reference to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605070940/http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisplay.php?product=14829 how much money you'd have to spend] in order to get one of the originals. 
** The card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=32237 Deep Analysis] has the flavor text "The specimen appears to be broken." The artifact being examined in the card's art is a [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=13087 Masticore], another card famous for being [[Game Breaker|exceedingly powerful]].
** The card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74238 Persecute Artist] doesn't let the caster choose Rebecca Guay. This is a nod to the time when rumors that Guay was being fired as a Magic card artist led to an [[Internet Backdraft]]. 
** The twelth editions print of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=233232 Giant Spider] states that "The wild is always changing, but it does have a few constants." This is probably a reference to the fact that by this point, Giant Spider was the only card that has been in all core sets since the game's beginning
* A few cards in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|''Yu-Gi-Oh'' card game]]'' are based upon storylines from [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|the original manga]], before the card game came to prominence:
** [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Zombyra_the_Dark "Zombyra the Dark"] is based on Zombire, a [[Spawn]] [[Expy]] from an [[Show Within a Show|in-universe comic]]. Like Spawn, he gets closer to death the more he fights, represented by an ATK reduction after attacking.
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Master_-_Zorc "Dark Master - Zorc"] was the [[Big Bad]] of the Monster World story arc, which involved the "Monster World" [[Tabletop Game]]. This is the basis for the die-rolling effect, including the fact that a lower role is better and the highest roll is a fumble.

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