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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 22/06/2026

The kids made me a bunch of cards for my Father’s Day video… here’s the ones that didn’t make it!

BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 22/06/2026

Did you HALF to do that to him? Lol that was sick! Never finished The Witcher 3… now I’m downloading it again after this

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 21/06/2026

My 6 year old grabbed the new Marvel UB card: Stark Industries Executive and drew her version. Look at that IronMan armor!!! I could cry from being so proud 🥹

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/03/2026

Delroy & Elordi were robbed #oscars

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 14/02/2026

My wife was reading to the girls tonight, & Sawmi my 6 yo started crying, then I read the epilogue & we just wept. This was such a beautiful & fun graphic novel, but that ending just had us missing our kitty, Oscar.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 12/01/2026

Even the idea of fake sci-fi fascists has worn itself thin over 13 years with these sleeves. Because the real world keeps echoing the same playbook—and I’m tired. New sleeves. Same deck. Same joy. Clearer head.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

Goodbye for now buddy. Find a warm spot to nap, a neighborhood to roam, a little girl to nuzzle, a nice lady to sit next to, another cat to bug, & a papa to pet you. On this side of the life’s curtain, you always found a way back to us, but soon we’ll find our way back to you. 🐈❤️

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

An abandoned furball that found its way to the Dean Farm & into Lora's life & eventually into mine. Though we are heartbroken because he was a very very very good buddy, we are even more grateful today because a cat named Oscar loved us all so very much. #cat #tribute

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

He hopped onto bed whenever he sensed we were sad, crying or breakfast was running late. He was never just a cat, he was a part of the Zaidarhzauva’s.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

Oscar crawled on top of us when we sat down for our late night tv or video games. He waddled into the presence of our guests and wore his orange fur like a royal cape. He sat by me for 8 years as I started working from home, demanding cameos on Zoom & Google Meet.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

Indulge a sad cat-dad as I remember my buddy Oscar with a lengthy post... Oscar was a part of this family. His paw prints & belly fuzz are all over the house and our lives. His patience for the kids grew as their chubby baby hands started to rain kitty treats towards him.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/01/2026

We said goodbye to our sweet buddy Oscar. He was 14, loving, gentle, goofy and hungry boi. I wept because for the past 12 years, he was my little buddy who sat next to me as I worked, played video games & went through my cards. I miss him & hope I’ll see him again one day. #cats

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 24/12/2025

My favorite scene in Muppet Christmas Carol sitting down all lonely near a big fire, his own house, robe and a giant plate of cheese and Bread. Peak burnt-out-Holidays-vibe

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

“It’s not that deep bro”… but it is to me. I love this game. And I love that I’m still learning it—every day—through new universes and old planes I get to revisit with fresh eyes.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

This is more a note to myself: if you want people to care, help them connect. Bring them from their world into yours. Give them something familiar to hold while they learn the weird, beautiful complexity you’re obsessed with.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

And this isn’t me trying to make a whole “Universes Beyond / Fortnite-ification of MTG” post.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

It’s not that returning players or new players don’t respect original MTG worlds. We do. But when the game feels so intensely complicated, seeing something you already know and love becomes a bridge. It turns this massive rulebook of a hobby into something you can grab onto.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

First pack in, I was cooked. Hooked. It was the lore. Not just “oh cool, I recognize that,” but I actually knew what the cards were referencing—and then seeing that story translate into gameplay? That clicked a part of my brain Magic hadn’t touched before.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 16/12/2025

Back in July 2023… I had just finished Lord of the Rings and then the set dropped. I’d never spent more than $50 on Magic, and I’d basically been out of the game for almost 10 years… and somehow I still ended up buying two Collector Booster boxes.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 13/12/2025

Is this the future the oligarchs want for us?

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 12/12/2025

I don’t roll joints but I roll up to joints with rolls of rolled mats… I know my role… I know the rules… just roll with it… This post was not screened by my brain.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 12/12/2025

Can someone please check on Ubisoft? #goty #expedition33

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Why all new games look like

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 12/12/2025

Orbitals might be my killer app for Nintendo Switch 2

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 12/12/2025

The Forest 3 was the craziest reveal ever!!! Wow!!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

Didn’t get Vivi or Senior Chang aka Snapcaster Mage… but good lawd! These cards are gorgeous!!!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

I would never do it… unless there was hot honey chili!! lol jk, they’re too cute!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

New recipe I’m trying! Chocobo & Waffles!🧇 But seriously I don’t think anyone in the FF multi-verse eats Chocobo… would you? #everythingismagic

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

Work from home has its upside during lunch break. LoTR Extended with Oscar, to set the holiday mood!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

Beyond stoked!!! Chocobo Bundles! Like everyone I’ve just loved Final Fantasy set so much! Even playing FFX for the first time this Holiday season!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 11/12/2025

We get a new ornament every year since 2014…and it usually takes us a while at the store to decide. This year we took one glance at this and said “yup.”

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 10/12/2025

Was just telling my buddies that I'm starting FFX over Christmas break! After almost 20 years shutting it off and going back to FF9, I'm gonna try to finish FFX before 2026!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 10/12/2025

My daughter: I’m sorry I broke your ornament… maybe I’ll buy you a Magic Card… Me: *laughs* baby how you gonna afford Secret Lair’s Godzilla Lands? This didn’t happen, but i did think it when she said that 🤣

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 10/12/2025

When you’ve overslept and missed 2nd breakfast…

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 09/12/2025

I hope there’s a Neon Ink Foil M4 Mac-Mini in this pack! Pulls in the thread! #everythingismagic

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 09/12/2025

Something Something I'm gonna skip MTG x Marvel... oh wait... SHINY CARDS!!!!!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 08/12/2025

And just like that… “a set I’m gonna ignore” slowly sinks its marketing claws into me.

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 08/12/2025

For the final WeeklyMTG of 2025, Blake is throwing a #MTGxMarvel party as a gift to himself. You can come too. Join Blake, and special guests @wachelreeks.com and Gabriel Luna at 10AM Pacific over at twitch.tv/Magic!

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/12/2025

Weekend Morning Cartoon is different when your papa loves Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 #absolutecinema #expedition33

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 07/12/2025

Stop me if you heard this one… A Mizo American walks into a Micro center… and 4 below MSRP scene boxes later…

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 03/12/2025

Intros should look like: 1. "Hi my name is..." 2. "I love playing <InsertGame>" Optional 3 if its MTG: "I got back into it through <Insert UB>" 😜 Should we adopt introductions like this... but isn't what we do on our free time give a better picture of who we are? Or is that too revealing?

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 03/12/2025

Feeling inspired by @strixhavendropout.bsky.social article: "The Top 4 Times Magic Learned To Be Inclusive" A peak into the inclusive decisions that WOTC had implemented... into THEIR PRODUCTs. The history and articles by @shivambhatt.bsky.social stirred me. Great read. 😭 tinyurl.com/49hvn3rj

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The Top 4 Times Magic Learned To Be Inclusive | EDHREC

Cas Hinds digs into Magic character depiction and shows us how impactful true diversity, inclusion, and representation can be.

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BiakaPlays @biakaplays.com · 03/12/2025

😂 hmmm let’s just add extra complications to a complicated game!

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