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Title drop! Again. My favorite trope

"Magic: The Gathering" closes this chapter as it started it, like a framing device. That particular card was also a foreshadowing technique (Chekhov's card, in a way) when it was played by Tobias's younger brother David in the run-up to the climactic scene

That is efficient storytelling and proof that some authors make the effort to learn it, instead of just making up a story as they go, and inevitably rebooting it when it goes nowhere