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Darla
@basicandbizarre.bsky.social
Librarian, TTRPG designer, autistic trans dyke. she/her
My Boxing Day @cardkingdom.com order arrived yesterday with my new favourite turn 2-4 combo: Wall of Blood+Rite of Consumption.

Pump Wall for as much life as I can spare, then brutally hurl it in someone's face+get all the life back!

(also Rite is legal in Pauper, because it is somehow a Common!)
January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Even though I play mostly black and/or red aligned decks, and Rakdos is my favourite colour pair, I genuinely adore some of the wacky characters that green has produced, like the three academic bears.

Strixhaven canonically gave tenure to AT LEAST two bears, and Doc Aurlock is apocryphally one too.
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 AM
I have dyscalculia and so view people who are really good at, and engaged with, complex math and science like they're basically wizards. So having a math and science nerd hero is REALLY cool.

I like to think she'd become good buddies with my other personal favourite card, Mild-Mannered Librarian.
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 AM
world's a fuck share a buddy

I love Zimone and genuinely am low key annoyed that Quint got sparked instead of her. Zimone is an absolute nerd who made a dog out of math and this is pure buddy behaviour.

She's just so cool. More Magic characters need to be joyful nerds.
January 13, 2026 at 4:03 AM
NAP BUDDIES!
January 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
And whole cabbages. If you cut open the average person in Skyrim their insides are just a solid mass of milk fats and vegetable fiber. Nothing can come out because then there would be nothing inside. Just empty, flacid person suits, like scarecrows with the hay taken out.
January 12, 2026 at 3:31 PM
They say that No Man Is An Island, but this is incorrect.

Toph Bei Fong can turn Tony Stark into an Island.
January 12, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I walked into the bedroom and woke them, but The Floof was CURLED UP AROUND MEWT. (yes, on top of my PJs)

Like full big spoon.

THE CUTENESS!!!
January 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The boy has some real damn pretty alt art, too!
January 11, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Like...I kind of get putting Kellan into Simic primarily because Oko is in Simic, but then why put Kellan, the Fae-Blooded into Boros in the first place?

Or, again, why go back to mono-Red for Planar Trailblazer?

I have 5 fancy looking Kellans and can only play with 2-3 of them in a given deck.
January 11, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Also the decision to make Kellan's Foundations card mono-Red baffles me. Pushing a four color Kellan would be a bit much, but the single time he was Simic is just such an odd choice.
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
It annoys me that, of all his cards, a Kellan deck CANNOT run all 5 Kellan cards. Kellan, the Kid, can run Daring Traveler and Inquisitive Prodigy, because FOR SOME REASON, Inquisitive Prodigy is in Simic instead or Selesnya, Boros, or Gruul, putting The Kid into Bant instead of Naya.
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Mewt, while I understand that the residual oils of my breakfast salmon are delicious, you are blocking access TO MY COFFEE.
January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Can I turn Quillspike into politics?

"If no one attacks me till my next turn I will agree to remove all counters from the goat so we can all keep drawing. I promise not to hit anyone."
January 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
BEHOLD PERFECTION!
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Also realizing that this also produces infinite mana with either Kinnan or Badgermole Cub (and with the ruling on hybrid mana you can run Quillspike in a Kinnan deck! NEAT!)
January 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Nevermind. It also already goes infinite with Devoted Druid.
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I *will* find a way to use the blight mechanic to make Quillspike go infinite (it already goes infinite with something like Putrid Goblin+Phyrexian Altar)

...so I can sacc it to Gisa for infinite zombies.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
@gitrob.bsky.social Saw a leak of the new Oko on Facebook and went "oh, oh no, Gitrob is going to explode when he sees this."
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A small snippit of all the different versions of Professor Moriarty that I found pictures of for my The Strange group. Because they just encountered More'i'arty and this asshole keeps shifting between different portrayals of the Napoleon of Crime while he supervises his extradimensional drug lab.
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Mewt Shadow-Eye, what do your kitten eyes see?
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 PM
...Maybe I can build a Rukaramel SliverDrazi deck.

(oh yeah, I also added Dark Depths since Mutated Cultist can potentially offer Turn 2 Marit Lage+Ulalek)
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
I finally unboxed and sleeved the MH3 Eldrazi deck the a couple days ago, with a few changes (added both legal Emrakuls, Sire of Seven Deaths, Acausal Vestige, etc) and with with the full alt art Ulalek and Azlask. Also changed out some lands, including full arts.
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"I am the terror that floofs in the night. I am the hairball that sticks in your throat. I...am...actually pretty tired. Think I'll nap now kthyxby."
January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
He is so cute and fluffy.
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM