A few of the teachers at the Catholic school I attended thought the black cards were evil and banned them from their class rooms. But most were reasonable about it.
Lol the black cards are the coolest looking. Yeah I think it was left over satanic panic from the 80's.
Amusingly, if they had endorsed my nerdy side I probably would have never got into drugs like I ended up doing during my teen years.
Yeah, my Dad actively discouraged me from reading scifi and playing magic. In my late teens they started accusing me of doing drugs, which pissed sober me off and led me to drinking and doing drugs......
I started playing when i was about 10 or so at an after school daycare. I enjoyed the game and mechanics and got decent at it. Eventually ended up borrowing a deck from a neighbor.
Unfortunately my mom was of the opinion that magic delved into the occult and led to witchcraft so she tore up the entire deck.
Never played much after that until I was about 22. When some friends got me back into over drinks. Played a lot for about a year and accumulated several decks. Until I moved away. Since then I've played a little bit with room mates but haven't touched them in 6-8 months now.