A long story short...
Card games like Magic: The Gathering and YU-GI-OH used to be very popular in our troop. When the scoutmaster changed, he quickly banned all games save chess, checkers, and card games played w/ standard playing cards. Being one of the Magic players in the troop, I asked him about the bannings. Not only could he not tell me why the games were banned, he could not tell me anything about the banned games that might warrant a banning. Many of the scouts and a few of the leaders(including myself) believe that the bannings were simply a declaration of power by the scoutmaste