This is the actual reason why they were banned. I think people have conflated this with the satanic panic about them due to misremembering over the last few decades.
School districts around the world were not broadly publishing rules banning pokemon because the dude on The Prophecy Club said they were the devil. They were having problems with kids gambling, which immediately escalated to fighting and stealing each other’s cards.
I was scamming cards left and right. No one at my school knew how the card game actually worked aside from me im pretty sure. People would just find their 2 best cards and take turns attacking each other with the atrongest attack. It was generally pretty easy to tell who would win in advance.
This is the actual reason why they were banned. I think people have conflated this with the satanic panic about them due to misremembering over the last few decades.
School districts around the world were not broadly publishing rules banning pokemon because the dude on The Prophecy Club said they were the devil. They were having problems with kids gambling, which immediately escalated to fighting and stealing each other’s cards.
I was scamming cards left and right. No one at my school knew how the card game actually worked aside from me im pretty sure. People would just find their 2 best cards and take turns attacking each other with the atrongest attack. It was generally pretty easy to tell who would win in advance.