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Rory, Aspiring Biologist

@roryang.bsky.social
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HKUST PhD student Molluscan bioinformatics but I mostly talk about Magic, Gundam and things of that nature. They/He

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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's like a tree falling in the forest
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
drink smoothie I have now done
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
while I do find the Racial Draft bit from the chapelle funny, i think it's odd that it's an impossibility in that world for things to be more than two things at once, for racial identities to be mutually exclusive that doesn't make much sense to me
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the type of beast i create in Horsey Game i can only help they taste that good
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
watching the Sopranos, edifying to see Tony Soprano be bad at Mario Kart 64 but willing to cheat to win
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How does Avanti West coast make any money when none of their trains actually go anywhere
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i am having difficulties at work and I am peeved nay annoyed nay little pissed
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
National Baboon's Vacation
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Egg walker Dr Robotnik looking machine It's awesome :]
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today's BNR's Pauper news got me feeling like this I get why, but also, damn you annoying faerie
Modern Pauper Meta is supported by Sneaky Snacker ApparentlySnacking Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
do the changes to mana abilities mean you can no longer sacrifice chromatic sphere to pay for coloured mana and count for affinity? #mtg #magicrules
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A pilgrim punt gunner painted :] #trenchcrusade
Yellow and beige punt gun wielding pilgrim 
They have an iron capirote
The gun has an ax head, splattered with blood
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Back stroke is the worst swimming stroke
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The classic
Claws of Gix
{0}
Artifact

{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

When the Brotherhood of Gix dug out the cave of Koilos they found their master’s severed hand. They enshrined it, hoping that one day it would point the way to Phyrexia.

Illustrated by Henry G. Higginbotham
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i love labi siffre i should listen to him even more
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
you should come play pauper in bristol :p
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I like these ones :]
Manamorphose
{1}{R/G}
Instant

Add two mana in any combination of colors.

Draw a card.

For a moment, objects of pure mana glimmered in the wonderstruck boggart’s hands. In the next moment, they were in his mouth, as he chewed contentedly.

Illustrated by Jeff MiracolaTerminate
{B}{R}
Instant

Destroy target creature. It can’t be regenerated.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled “gods.”

Illustrated by DiTerlizziSoul Manipulation
{1}{U}{B}
Instant

Choose one or both —

• Counter target creature spell.

• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

“Birth and death are both reversible.”
—Nicol Bolas

Illustrated by Carl Critchlow
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I love their big barbed spear and they're wonderfully grimy, what are you going to use it as
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ireland does have its fair share of bogs which is are like mires so these are kinda representative of ireland lol
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I love pauper so much, it's da best format i play U faeries but I've been trying dredge recently, i'm not very good at magic but I do okay
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
all the bristol pauper league people have been nice to me, I like playing with them, they put up with me playing mono u faeries and stupid things like ug ponza
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
straight from the horse's mouth... gay from the horse's ass
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
margaritaville is one of the best musical compositions of all time
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
feel like i'm having a cinematic descent into madness but the sound track is margaritaville so it isn't so bad
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Scooby Doo Unmasking meme
Panel 1: Normal Bashful Burt
Panel 2: Burt is unmasked to reveal cone bashful burt
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I too love to connive muhahahaha
evil wizard wearing a dark robe with a big beard and a staff and evil orb >:]
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
i'm glad I didn't know what hell was when i was growing up
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Alternatively, one good turbo fog deck, and a worse one that just helps with all the 3rd best fogs and mill cards
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
bristol is running a 2 headed giant pauper event, i don't have a partner but I was thinking about what two decks would be good together, my first thought was two burn decks, red and black so they don't tread on each others cards
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
i got an ad by JTI about why we shouldn't buy black market tobacco but only because it doesn't make them money and will lead to the collapse of small businesses i thought tobacco advertising wasn't allowed but ig it is to protect private ventures
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
30 Microns!? Good luck painting something so small ;p
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Deck is a house, the play pattern of playing sky fisher to pick up and play the same card over and over reminds me off Acid Trip, RIP
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
i watched disclosure day today and I found it mid and I was disappointed, I hoped for something better but i'd rather watch Close Encounters again
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I haven't had to play against affinity but I fear the day I do, it's formidable, do you have any ideas what faeries should do, other than bring in Steel Sabotage
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
i wanna make a new pauper deck but I'm not sure what to make I might brew something or maybe make gardens
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's weirdly in scale, maybe it's on purpose lol
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
i wanna fly in a pby catalina, i think it'd make me happy it's one of my favourite aircraft
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Some trench crusade minis are in the second category too from what I've seen too lol Praetor is w i d e
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"i'm so cooked" "it's joever" nah "I'm is joeked"
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
everytime i think about work i kinda feel like Quark in that episode of DS9 where he sells his corpse parts to brunt and asks Garak to assassinate him i.e. i feel like i've sold something impossible and want to be hit by a bus so i don't have to deal with it anymore
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
magic has a lot of inconsistencies, one i've just learned about seems to be their spelling of the word aeon/eon
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
my minis look like this post nuln oil a lot of the time
static.klipy.com
Dune Grimace in Dark Water
Alt: Baron Harkonnen rising out of his weird oil bath
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is true, the only comparable card is maybe something like Gamekeeper which exiles itself and stuff like avenging druid and hermit druid which aren't as immediate a lot of the time
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
She slices, she dices, she doubles combat damage I play her with a legends/humans subtheme to draw more cards and smash face
Saskia the Unyielding
{B}{R}{G}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance, haste

As Saskia enters, choose a player.

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.

3/4
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There's also spinner of souls and heirloom blade if you're feeling extra spicy, but they don't put stuff into the graveyard
Heirloom Blade
{3}
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with it. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Equip {1}Spinner of Souls
{2}{G}
Creature — Spider Spirit

Reach

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

4/3
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
whenever my mother notices a problem i have she keeps telling me solutions but not in a way that's helpful to me, i've told her but she keeps telling me how i should've fixed something and it just makes me feel worse about the problem and makes me not want to be around at all
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The art is, but constantly wiping the board is too chalant to have aura, if he was a true aura farmer he would stand there, nonplussed by the horde of enemies, conversely, destroying a bunch of goons at once is pretty cool
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
some song parodies have endured longer than the original, at least to me, like Brand New Combine Harvester, I've never heard the original referenced but maybe that's just because I live in somerset
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
lowkey wish i could rain hellfire on not-physical things
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Rory, Aspiring Biologist @roryang.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
i hate my illness, it makes a prison of my own body
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