Less than a week after Wizards of the Coast announced that it was suing Hex Entertainment and Cryptozoic Entertainment for cloning the company's popular card game Magic: The Gathering, the two companies have come back with a statement in defense of their game Hex: Shards of Fate.

Disputes over intellectual property walk a fine line between meting out justice and delving headfirst into a ridiculous bramble of legalese.

For the past couple of years, the folks at Cryptozoic Entertainment have been making a lovely array of physical trading card, board and deck-building games, everything from the official World of Warcraft TCG to The Big Bang Theory: The Party Game. Now they're going digital with Hex: Shards of Fate, the first…