I would like to note that you can't necessarily take the words you heard from the owner at face value. We don't know if they are accurate and by the way you are repeating them, many ppl here may think that Wizards are simply a bunch of douches that want to close your shop for no good reason. I assure you, Wizards doesn't just take away events for no good reason. That lessons their business in the end run. They must have had a good reason to do so.
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