“Lunch Money” from Atlas Games is a combat/elimination card game in the spirit of “Magic the Gathering”, but themed around an elementary school playground fight. I purchased a deck of these cards many years ago (way, way back in the late 1990′s!), but the artwork on the cards was so impressive that I saw them as too pretty to play with, and so they joined their collectable comic book brethren in a series of cardboard boxes. The original box the cards came in has taken a beating over the years and is quite dog-eared, but the cards inside are untouched and still in excellent condition. I still can’t bring myself to bend or shuffle any of them, so I’ll need to buy a couple of newer decks and keep the playable and ‘for-looking-at’ cards separate, or simply find the smartphone app equivalent and not have to worry about bent corners and fingerprint erosion at all.