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Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen
@fruan.bsky.social
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Useless lump somewhere in the vicinity of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Mastodon's premiere Magic: The Gathering shitposter (prove me wrong) - kind.social/@Fruan
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#MagicTheGathering #MtGLorwyn
Screenshots from Pacific Rim (2013) arranged vertically to make a comic strip. A scientist (as played by Burn Gorman) stands infront of a chalkboard and explains his theory passionately. Text has been crudely slapped on these images, subverting the dialogue of the movie: "Squee was Magic's first Silly Little Guy in Weatherlight. Then Fblthp in Gatecrash. Loot in OTJ and Fleem in Omenpaths... we could be seeing a Silly Little Guy in every set. By Lorwyn Eclipsed we could see a double event" The sequence ends with a picture of Cragg and Squen, the two silly little guys from the Lorwyn Eclipsed promo materials.
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Inscrutable new replacement for the Drake meme just dropped:
Two panels cropped out of Graham's storyboards and shorn of context. They barely, just barely, resemble the drake approval/disapproval meme.
December 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.

Who's coming to save you?

... I might be in a little trouble here, but at least all the idiots who'll accidentally get me killed are hot?
The cast of Farscape
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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#MagicTheGathering #MTG #MTGxATLA
An edited page from the comic "Watchmen" (1984). Doctor Manhattan, a sad blue naked man, wanders the desolate surface of Mars. His mournful rambling across three panels are captioned: "It is 1993. Magic: The Gathering has just released. There is a card that lets you draw three cards for one blue mana. Its power level proves to be a mistake." "It is 2014. Khans of Tarkir has just released. There is a card that lets you draw three cards for one blue mana. Its power level proves to be a mistake." "It is 2025. MTGxATLA has just released. There is a card that lets you draw three cards for one blue mana. Its power level proves to be a mistake."
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Battle station reconfigured into a Bus station- it’s starting to feel a lot like #DesertBus

#db2025 #DesertBusForHope
A wall mounted Tv showing the desert bus offline screen, with a monitor put into portrait orientation beside it for the chat
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#MagicTheGathering #MtG #MtGxATLA
Who would win? An impenetrable system of fortifications spanning a quarter of a continent (Picture of the upcoming Magic: The Gathering card 'The Walls of Ba Sing Se', a 0/30 wall) One slimy boi (Picture of the Magic: The Gathering card "Poison Dart Frog", the cutest little 1/1 frog you've ever seen, who can get deathtouch)
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Uh, this doesn't seem right...
#MagicTheGathering
A screenshot from a digital shopfront showing Seanan McGuire's upcoming Magic The Gathering novel "Strixhaven, Omens of Chaos" at a pre-order price of $9999.99
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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If you see this, quote post with your favorite Pokémon (wrong answers only.)
Loot from Magic: The Gathering, art by Arif Wijaya
October 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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It's honestly a cool and fun card, I promise!
October 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Me reading and re-reading the Planeswalker's Guide to Lorwyn Eclipsed to hold me over until January:
The Magic: The Gathering card "Sensation Gorger" from 2008's Morning Tide, part of the original Lorwyn block. Art by Matt Cavotta shows a high angle looking down on a little green goblin with listening horns inserted into his ears, tiny sticks holding open his eye lids, a skunk draped over his nose, a frog in his mouth, and fish and eyes and I don't know what plastered over his body. This little guy wants to experience EVERYTHING.
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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All these characters from other sources really ruin Magic for me.
The Magic: The Gathering card "Aladdin" from Arabian Nights, Magic's very first expansion way back in 1993 Art by Julie Baroh shows a young man smiling while looking down at the old fashioned style oil lamp he holds.
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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mfw Hades 2 full release is less than a week away

#Hades2 #SupergiantGames #Seastar #Sickos
Poseidon as depicted in Hades 2 - an extremely enthusiastic buff man with flowing green hair like the sea, holding a trident. "Sickos" has been crudely edited across his torso, and a speech bubble reads "YES ... HA HA HA ... YES!" in the style of the sickos meme.
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The XKCD 'Dependency' comic, edited so the giant ramshackle pile of blocks is labled "All Magic: The Gathering deckbuilding, discussion, content, etc" and the tiny block holding it all up is labed "Scryfall"
September 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Excuse me, I need to scryfall every previous MDFC and figure out what new shenanigans are allowed with moonmist.

(From magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...)
But wait! There's a twist! Unlike previous modal double-faced cards, these ones have a built-in way to transform. After all, if you can't change costume, your secret identity is just your identity. If the card's front face is up, there's an activated ability that allows you to transform it to the other face. Previously, a modal double-faced card couldn't transform, but that rule is going away. In fact, any modal double-faced permanent that is instructed to transform now can, although only the new ones in this set come with built-in ways to make that happen.
August 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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My first 7 win draft for Edge of Eternities; All Fates Stalker is a ridiculously amazing card that provides you with way way too many lines of play to figure. I need to go lie down.
A screenshot of the Magic: Arena deckbuilding interface, showing a white/blue draft deck with two All-Fates Stalkers in it. A screenshot from Magic: Arena showing a 7-2 record.
August 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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#MagicTheGathering
A still from The Simpsons - Mr Burns holds two bottles of ketchup/catsup. The Magic: The Gathering cards "Portable Hole" and "Seam Rip" have been crudely pasted onto the bottles.
August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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#MagicTheGathering
"The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos", by Giorgio Ghisi - An engraving of the three Fates of greek mythology, spinning a thread, weaving it, and cutting it respectively. They have been crudely relabeled "Emrakul", "Kozilek" and "Ulamog"
July 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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#MagicTheGathering
Map of the Magic Multiverse A segment of a donut shape, with a cluster of little circles inside the hole. The little circles are labeled "Ptolomic universes full of wizards". The donut is labeled "Einsteinian universe full of spaceships" The empty space around these figures is labeled "Cthulu"
July 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#MagicTheGathering #MtGEternities
The "Is this a pigeon" meme format; a naive and bespectacled anime lad gestures eagerly at a butterfly that has been crudely labled "Lobster Citizen". The image is captioned "Is this a Homarid?"
July 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#MagicTheGathering #MtGEternities
A badly composited image of Tezzeret from Magic: The Gathering - the portrait is half way off the left edge of the image - captioned "Oh god how did this get here I am not good with computers"
July 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Oh shit. The qualifier is Standard?! That's a format that didn't exist until literally yesterday.
The email showing that your humble poster finished 25th in ranked this month, and is thus qualified for the July Qualifier weekend, to be played in the Magic format of Standard.
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The magic was inside you all along! We're going to get you into emergency surgery and get the magic out! I've called and ambulance! I promise you everything is going to be ok! Lie down and try not to move! It's important that you don't panic! The ambulance will be here soon! You're doing so well! Just focus on breathing! In and out! Just like that! Everything is going to work out! Stay with me!
June 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Post a meme made by you
May 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Just had to confirm for myself that this is real, because it squarely hits the union of my three biggest annoyances in life: AI slop, the fall of western democracies into fascism, and being wrong about Magic: The Gathering.
A screenshot of Google's "helpful" AI search results: "is a forest card a green card No, a Forest card is not a "green card" in the way a green card refers to a United States permanent resident card, which is a US legal document. A Forest card in the context of Magic: The Gathering is a basic land card that produces green mana. It is considered a land card and is colorless, but it does have a green color identity."
April 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Uhhh...
April 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM