""I have had a hand in creating thousands of Magic cards over the years, and Ghazban Ogress is the one I most regret making,""
""When Ghazban Ogress comes into play, the player who has won the most Magic games that day gains control of it.""
""I just wanted to be one of the guys at the time," she said. "That was the biggest compliment you could get is if you were one of the guys and man, when people say guys don't gossip, boy are they lying. So, the attention was mixed, but you were always being watched. I could not go anywhere without being watched. If I went to lunch with a friend, there would be a rumor the next day that I was seen with so-and-so and I was dating him, even if I wasn't, even if it was nothing more than a lunch where we were talking about decks or cards or draft strategy or whatever.""
Mark Rosewater apologized and expressed regret for creating the Ghazbán Ogress card. The card parodied Ghazbán Ogre and was inspired by Catherine Nicoloff, an aspiring pro player who dated several top players in the 1990s competitive scene. The card appeared in the 1998 Unglued side-expansion and its text awarded control based on who had won the most games that day, effectively printing private slut-shaming. Catherine Nicoloff said she wanted to be accepted as one of the guys but was constantly watched and subject to persistent rumors about her social interactions.
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