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"You might be wondering why Bertrand was playing 61 cards. Apparently, he had heard the same rumor that everyone else had heard -- that ripping up a Chaos Orb and flipping the pieces would enable you to destroy all of your opponent's cards, provided you scattered the pieces properly. He had planned for just such an eventuality, in case he should he reached the finals. That's why he played 61 cards -- so that after he ripped up the Chaos Orb, he would still have a tournament-legal 60 deck. I overheard him asking a judge about ripping up the Chaos Orb before the finals started, and it made me a little bit nervous, but the judge said that it wouldn't work -- once you rip up a Chaos Orb, it ceases to be a Chaos Orb. Fortunately, the subject didn't come up in the tournament, since he never drew the Chaos Orb against me."