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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has a lot of these, usually [[Intentional Trope|on purpose]]. Mark Rosewater, the game's head designer, wrote a lengthy [[Justified Trope|Justification]] of the practice titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20090602111149/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom
** Of course, it's not unheard of for the quirkier ones to become [[Lethal Joke Character]]s later on—one infamous example is [http://magiccards.info/mr/en/272.html Lion's Eye Diamond], which was originally designed as a [[nerf]]ed [http://magiccards.info/un/en/233.html Black Lotus] so weak that nobody would ever play it.
* The ''[[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]]'' had Epic Events, which typically required not only that you use associated cards, but your ''opponent'' use associated cards; for instance, Attack Run depended on your opponent using the Death Star and you having Death Star: Trench and Proton Torpedoes. All were rare.
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