Somewhere in the 1990s, card companies started removing the backgrounds from cards and inserting alternate realities. I admit, it took me awhile to adjust to not seeing fields and dirt and grass and trees on every one of my cards. And I'm still not crazy about a lot of the alternate looks behind the players. But it's grown on me and sometimes it makes for interesting cards. This is one such example. I've gone on record that there needs to be more lightning on cards. I'm not fan of lightning in real life. It's freaky and I'm convinced that those people who go on the porch during a wild thunderstorm secretly want to be burned to a crisp. But lightning images sure make for pretty pictures. It's that "light up the night" effect that I have appreciated since I was a boy on everything from city lights to bedroom nightlights to those colorful bug-zappers in the summertime. So when this card showed up on Cards On Cards, I stood up straight as...
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