Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.

This is silenced, the radio murders.

You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.

The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.

And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.

I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHot radio app, Apple podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Ikid App and here, a podcast about things falling apart and sometimes about how to put

them back together again. I'm your host Mia Wong. This is a...

We are once again talking about Wizards of the Coast.

Now, this time is not about Dungeons & Dragons. It is about their other property, Magic the Gathering,

which if you don't know is Wizards of the Coast's trading card game.

That's at the forefront of some truly wild stuff right now.

Now, you could ask Mia, why are we even talking about Magic the Gathering on this show?

And you know, there's multiple answers.

One of them is that as industrial profit rates have been decreasing in the last half a century,

capital is increasingly turned towards entertainment as a way to make money.

Magic is now a billion dollar brand, partnering with everything from fortnight to the walking dead

to, and this is not a joke, being in the process of releasing an entire set of Lord of the Rings cards.

As capital is flooded into the entertainment industry and Magic in particular,

our silly little hobbies are suddenly the front lines of class struggle.

Workers at TCG Player this year, given the job of sorting through literally tens of thousands

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