This poststructural / postmodern study set in two southeastern U. S. cities used Foucauldian (1977, 1980, 1982), Certeauian (1984) and Bakhtinian (1981, 1986) theories to investigate the power relationships among eight Magic: The Gathering game aficionados and Wizards of the Coast, the commercial producers and tournament regulators of the strategy collector card game. Participants described: (1) their game space language and literacy practices; (2) their in-game language and literacy practices; and (3) their responses to an enforced and authoritative tournament game structure. Additionally, the participants were video recorded in situ during game play. Data gathered in the interview sessions and the video recorded game play together with concrete and publicly available online samples of language and literacy productions were analyzed using Rogerss (2004a) method of critical discourse analysis. The analyses indicated ongoing Strategic AND Tactical maneuvers within game space that calls into question the benefit of studies that ignore power relationships in such social configurations.