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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have played it! I even wrote an article or two about it, now lost to time, for the Serious Fun column on DailyMTG

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ll be brutally honest, I had no idea what that was

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The goggles are what really sell this as a Magic setting

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always want to be nice to radley and it’s baffling that there are people who don’t

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The announcement trailer in my dream only mentioned monkeys, but did make it clear that it would be all sorts of monkeys from different planes, like Avishkar's Cat Monkeys

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last night I had a dream that the setting for a just-announced Magic set was called "Ringblastia" and I was really mad about it It had mage-rings and jungles, and monkeys from across the Multiverse had traveled there through the Omenpaths

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m trying to think how many more of these you can make that are both true and functional. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose that much life?

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You should assume to a first approximation that basically every AAA game franchise with a sufficiently large cast has a dating sim pitch sitting around that the designers were perfectly serious about but got laughed off by someone higher up

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tappy this post dealt me psychic damage

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Saw it, haven’t delved into yet. I shall!

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No, we never got to meet Emperor Tamiyo

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyway, Alison's phenomenal as always, this story's very good, the Lili/Opal dynamic is just one of the many reasons why, and it is a damned pleasure to see the Magic story go deep like this. Go read it! /end

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We need to make mistakes to grow. That's just one of the themes of this story, and it isn't belabored, but it's right there on the page, in the persons of Liliana and Opal. (The other duplicates rightly get less screen time--they have less to add thematically!)

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our Liliana is better than she once was--maybe not good, but better--*because* she suffered through hard times and bad decisions and genuine regret for the things she did. Opal, far from being a lazy opposite, illuminates just how far Liliana has come--and the fatal flaw of Jace's plan.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Opal made objectively better choices. Never killed her brother. Never made deals with demons or dragons. Never suffered, never made mistakes. And unlike our Liliana, she is utterly irredeemable as a person--and the story makes it clear, imo, that that's *because* she never made those mistakes.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And look, our Liliana is not nice--not in this story, not ever. But here in this story we can see the ways she's grown over the course of her story. She loves her friends. She takes responsibility for her actions. She does the right thing.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Opal is an antagonist, in part because that's what the story requires. She is Liliana's jailer in Jace's Echoverse, keeping the necromancer contained (in part by feeding her only fruit, which Lili can't raise to fight for her--a nice touch). Opal is also... just *awful*.

Screenshot from Magic Story that reads: The healer, the calm and radiant noble, the insufferable snob smiles at Liliana now with venom on her lips. "Do you wonder what it will be like? Me overwriting you?"

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Liliana *was* a healer, or healer in training, long ago in Benalia. Alison's story takes this to its logical conclusion, making it explicit that Professor Opal is not just Liliana with a palette swap and an ironic, opposite-day power set. She is a Liliana who made different choices.

Art of Liliana, Heretical Healer from MTG's Magic Origins set. Liliana is depicted here as a young woman clad in white, outside a traditional Benalish estate. Art by Karla Ortiz

Screenshot of Magic Story that reads: Opal smiles politely. "I think your life of suffering is what gave you your humor." She leans closer to the bars, and Liliana can make out pleading earnestness in her face. "In my Multiverse, our brother lived a full and healthy life. I chose a different path, and I saved him. Do you want me to save you, too?"

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's some great stuff going on here whose groundwork was surely laid outside Alison's story. Liliana is from Benalia on Dominaria, and Opal's dress isn't just white, it's specifically Benalish in style. Professor Opal is a healer, but this is no mere inversion of Liliana's necromancy.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

She does it here with the concept of the "evil duplicate," and while there is a LOT that can be said about the psychological depths of this story, I want to zoom in on Liliana and her sickly-sweet, white-aligned duplicate, "Professor Opal."

Art of Liliana, the Faultless from MTG's Reality Fracture set. Liliana wears her usual headdress, but now wears a white dress inlaid with Benalish stained glass motifs. Art by Aleksi Briclot.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's something Alison is genius at that's on full display here: taking a fantasy concept that's well worn, even clichéd, and finding a complex, human take on it. She did it in Ixalan with amnesia, where rather than a pulpy tale of betrayal, we got a meditation on choosing who you are.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

...to a truly excellent depiction of what it feels like to lose a fight to a mind mage, which I won't spoil by quoting here.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now, there are a lot of nice touches in this story for longtime fans of the story, from trivia like Jace having nine toes to lampshading the fact that Chandra and Ajani don't even know who Garruk IS (despite appearing in Lorwyn with him almost 20 years ago (sorry))...

Screenshot from Magic Story that reads: Chandra nods in seeming comprehension. "Garruk." She glances at Ajani and whispers, "Are we supposed to know who that is?"

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great credit is due to Alison and to @grayhaem.bsky.social and all the writers inside and outside the building who contributed. This story honors these characters and rewards fans' investment in them--and as someone who got to leave a few fingerprints on a few of them long ago, I'm grateful.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The #MTGFracture story by @alisontheperson.bsky.social is very very good and you should read it if you've ever had any interest in Magic's story. (I haven't been following the story closely for a while and was a little lost on some of the context here, but not badly.) magic.wizards.com/en/story

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MTG Story, Planes, and Planeswalkers | Magic: The Gathering

Explore the official source of the Magic Multiverse by learning about MTG planes and planeswalkers and catching up with current and past MTG stories.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now everyone can access levels of sycophantic drivel previously available only to billionaires!

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I am STOKED, it’s always been one of my favorite parts of the setting

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you are on an Apple device, it’s because Time Machine is their proprietary full-computer backup system.

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Magister Astrid D @astridsdream.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Happy #MakeATerribleComicDay2026 to all who celebrate! Here's mine and my kid's contribution. (My kid is funnier than me, it's fine.) (Yes, the kid who drew this is the same kid in my comic.) (This kid is VERY funny.) #makeaterriblecomicday

A four-panel comic depicting a child and an adult in a variety of situations. First panel: the child is holding a Royal Dansk tin full of crayons, that she knows is full of crayons, saying "I wike eat it". Second panel: child alone saying "I like to shipshayft!" (shapeshift) Third panel: adult is driving the car with the child in the back seat. The child is wearing a cat ear headband and a tail and asking "How would a Scottish Fold's ears be pierced?" Fourth panel: the adult is driving and there is a car ahead of them with a bumper sticker that reads "sometimes antisocial always antifascist", and the child in the back asks "what does antifass... that mean?"

A four panel comic about a human and a cat. First panel: the human pats the cat's head saying "Aww, what a cute cat!" Second panel: the cat says "No one will believe you" Third panel: the human stares at the cat in a ... kind of way. Fourth panel: the human says "W-what...?"

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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Had a feeling you might be behind that. Great solve.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I am picturing Pork Council-style ads for straight women as a whole rather than ads for any particular straight woman, which at least has the virtue of being funny

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As I once put it: It's impressive that the latter half of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine captured the zeitgeist of a decade, but it's even more impressive that it was the decade after the one it aired in.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A brood pouch is just mpreg with extra steps

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Inspired by @greenbloodkitty.bsky.social putting “Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon” on the DS9 one

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I learned a new word, so it’s win-win!

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I don’t know if it is specifically French or Marxist or what, but knowing the name may help you track that down. (I found it by searching for “the sphinx mystery men rhetorical device,” which I am weirdly proud of.)

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It is called antimetabole! (Some sources call it chiasmus, but it appears to be either a subset or a complement to chiasmus, depending on who you ask.) www.litcharts.com/literary-dev...

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LitCharts

A concise definition of Antimetabole along with usage tips, a deeper explanation, and lots of examples.

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