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Havic: The Bothering
Summary
Infobox game
| title = Havic: The Bothering
| image_link=
| image_caption = Havic: The Botherings card back design | designer= Peter Gray and Frank Martell
| publisher= PGI Limited
| players= 2 or more
| setup_time= < 2 minutes
| playing_time= ~ 25 minutes or longer.
| random_chance= Some
| skills= Card playingArithmeticReadingLogicStrategy
Havic: The Bothering (colloquially "Havic" or "HTB'''") is a parody of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Havic was created by Peter Gray and Frank Martell and introduced in 1998 by PGI Limited.
Only the first card set of Havic named Skool Daze was printed and distributed in randomly inserted 60 card shrink-wrapped starter decks which also included 1 rule card. A second set called Spring Break was in the works and would have been sold in booster packs, but was never released to the public.
Wizards of the Coast, which owned the rights to Magic: The Gathering, took active steps to hinder the distribution of the game and successfully shut out PGI Limited from attending GenCon in July 1998. Havic: The Bothering was a highly questionable product from a legal point of view because of its many similarities to Magic. In an unsuccessful attempt to circumvent copyright issues and the infringement of Richard Garfield’s patented trading card game foundations, two steps were taken. First of all each starter deck of Havic had printed on the back side, “This is a Parody.” The second step taken was to include on the bottom of the rule card, “*DO NOT HAVE EACH PLAYER: construct their own library of predetermined number of game components by examining and selecting [the] game components from [a] reservoir of game components or you may infringe on U.S. Patent No.5,662,332 to Garfield.”
A promotional card named Vegan was not included in the Skool Daze starter decks. It was instead to be inserted with InQuest Gamer Magazine as a free card for readers. Its distribution was rejected by InQuest due to the questionable legal status of the game and the card was never printed.
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