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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking through humans specifically, these seem the closest from what’s out there. Schulz said Charlie needed to lose to feel like the average person. Naya feels more in line, but B is easier to find suffering.

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver
{R}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
{R}{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
“Any apprentice with a spellbook and two sticks can churn out a fireball. This is different. This is art.”
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Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

Atla Palani, Nest Tender
{1}{R}{G}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman
{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 green Egg creature token with defender.
Whenever an Egg you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Such a rare, cool occurrence. Usually it’s a bounce on a clear, but Shesterkin was definitely aiming for it. I’m always annoyed that Fantasy Hockey doesn’t give points for skater categories to goalies.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…now I want to start a project where people share comic strips that embody their commander decks.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had feared she was done doing art on Magic cards. There is always such attention to detail with really interesting use of contrast. They truly feel magical. Less iconic, but her Lightning Bolt is my favorite. It’s a shame that her “Nether Void” art is locked behind the reserved list.

Lightning Bolt
{R}
Instant
Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Illustrated by Véronique Meignaud

Nether Void
{3}{B}
World Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays {3}.
These days, some wizards are finding that they have a little too much spell left at the end of their mana.
Illustrated by Véronique Meignaud
Part of the Reserved List

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would it be more awkward to have this be Magic sized and a 1/1 Goblin token on your next printing?

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t know much outside of Xanadu and Prairie Prince playing for XTC. Looks like I’ve got a rabbit hole to start digging through.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I already have a Yennett deck, but it feels like Esper Sentinel alone is worth the price of admission. Plus, a few pieces dovetail nicely with the release of the Ur-Sphinx.

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All Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass @bartlebooth45.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the polycule hears there are boardgames at the function

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You’d think it’d make Magic feel homier with us knowing everyone’s names, but they have to have secret identities.

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Marie's Sigh

Alt: Marie's Sigh

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It should be a rule that every DnD game needs to find increasingly creative ways to incorporate Emerald Web.

youtu.be

Flight of the Raven

YouTube video by Emerald Web - Topic

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He was on Cameo for a while, but not during the one time I hired someone from Cameo. He totally missed out on getting $50 from me.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still less scary than a Hiding Guydra.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Need to get as much mileage from this as I can!

Hulk meme. Bruce banner stands on a destroyed New York street. He looks back and says, "that's my secret, Cap. I'm always Jace." His eyes have changed because it is true. He is Jace.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An amalgamation of things that somehow shouldn’t come together as well as they do. Glad this came up on shuffle.

youtu.be

NNAMDï - Anxious Eater (Official Audio)

YouTube video by NNAMDÏ

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Suction tried to steal both of my shoes while I was leaving. I ended up carrying them and walking in socks until I got to the walkway. Grateful for good folks in the audience and enjoyed the music I saw, but the fest organizers having no plan for the grounds is frustrating.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Major Melon Zero was still my favorite. Hoping I see this and actually get to try it.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That is very true. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this plays out at prerelease. The design fits the story so amazingly, but I’m still parsing how to value everything.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This feels close to “on rate” for Red recently having access to mana dorks. It also seems like Empower is going to require playing a lot of small creatures.

Sunset Strikemaster
{1}{R}
Creature — Human Monk
{T}: Add {R}.
{2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to target creature with flying.
“Help the villagers to safety! I will hold the gate!”
3/1
Illustrated by Zara Alfonso

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I’m hearing you right you are offended by how little Jace thinks about goblins?

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Make it exactly like the Pitt, but none of the patients remember the name of their doctor.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It looks like if a cartoon character were to open a gift from ACME. Total blow back.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I bed it’d be too much if he had seven OTJ packs. Perfect amount!

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve seen it pointed out elsewhere that several of these same venues/owners had no concerns with welcoming Kanye on his current tour. That feels absurd.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Feels like the flavor text from Avacyn’s Pilgrim would be fitting before Avacyn’s flip switched.

Avacyn's Pilgrim
{G}
Creature — Human Monk
{T}: Add {W}.
“Avacyn’s protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch.”
1/1
Illustrated by Jana Schirmer & Johannes Voss

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Farmers Market in my hometown offers similar. My mouth is watering just thinking about them!

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watching the Golden Girls and trying to figure out which of the Young Ones they’d be. Sophia as Vyvyan and Blanche as Mike Thecoolguy. Dorothy as Rik and Rose as Neil make sense, but I could also see swapping those two.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’d play a mobile game where I had to shoot burritos into your mouth.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stick with it for a few years. Eventually that will become their preferred way to be held. I’ve fooled at least two cats into enjoying it.

A person holding a cat like a wee little baby.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m bummed I’m resharing a CD rip that has skips, but this hasn’t been digitally released. Genre tag belies how soulful this song is. Shame some people will skip it for that. There were three years where they were constantly on tour, and this album reflects that.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve been trying. Commander and Cocktails gave me an idea for bringing music to con spaces, and I’m trying to set that up as a way to generate interest in Cataclysm Arcade. Working on proof of concept to try to send to him.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It seems wild that so many people jeep, but I’ve never seen someone jept.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I read this as though you were talking to a puppet sidekick named “Biscuits.” Having Goyf in standard was probably already special enough as is, though.

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I can’t argue that it should always go this way, but it *can be* really fun when a remix turns into “I’m keeping the vocals and tambourine and that’s it” Not great for every pair of artists, but really fun when it works.

youtu.be

Growing Up (Trent Reznor Remix)

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel - Topic

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve got a Yidris Superfriends commander deck that absolutely needs this. 🙌

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Harrison Fnord @hellaskeletons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Applications went up for #MCDetroit and I was pleasantly surprised to see “unique formats” mentioned in the Game Play Table Application. There’s a possibility I may be able to introduce some new folks to Main Bears next February.

mcdetroit.mtgfestivals.com

Game Play Table Application

Game Play Tables are all about playing Magic together, whether it’s a fresh take on a classic format, a casual learn-to-play session, or a lively tournament.

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