[chii]

Wizards of the coast owns the patent on collectable cards, so they should be excited, since there's no way to break into the market without them suing you. They can fire all of their artists and save on costs, but still produce good working cards with AI.

[navbaker]

That patent expired several years ago.

[tome]

Apparently it was granted it 1997 so should have expired in 2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectible_card_game#Wizards_...