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The French translation of "Chaos Wand", named "Baguette du chaos"
Two Tempest Lotus Petals, an Urza's Legacy Memory Jar, and a foil extended art Sea Gate Restoration, worth about $165
Ramos, a silver pitbull mutt, looking anxious and reluctant despite a palm-full of whipped cream
An image of a banana, attached to a breakdown of all the individual chemicals which make up a banana.
A car control panel with too many fucking buttons
Lulu, Stern Guardian from the Final Fantasy X commander deck. Lulu's character design, created by Tetsuya Nomura, is notorious for having a dress that's made using approximately a dozen belts.
Dark souls text: You Pooped
The Twitter meme post about "please stop praying for my grandpa uu are making him too strong" but edited to say Fleem instead of my grandpa
Cryptic Gateway {5} Artifact Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield. Its lock changes to fit each key.
A PB&J sandwich (actually two) cut in half to show that it actually contains peanut butter and jelly
A screenshot of the described behavior
The photo of Kathleen's split pea soup, inserted into a Food token frame from Magic: The Gathering
The German white-bordered printing of Demonic Tutor, with the flavor text: "Das also war des Pudels Kern! Ein fahrender Skolast? Der Kasus macht mich lachen." This line comes after Mephisto appeared before Faust, disguising himself first as a dog and then as a traveling scholar.
The 2-foot-long Super Slice from Pizza Barn in Yonkers, NY
A moment from Heilung's live performance
Heilung - Lifa
XKCD "Compiling" comic, about programmers slacking off by having a sword-fight on office chairs while their code is compiling, but with Kathleen slacking off because Final Cut was rendering.
The 32 Challenge, featuring decks I have built of each color identity; the full list is available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ORtVu2AwMQup95I7uhGB8NC2WFhDbYFEGkfDEyAyzc8/edit?usp=sharing
The image from https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1bpue7q/my_redacted_trouble_in_pairs/ redoing the artwork from the Murders at Karlov Manor Commander printing of Trouble in Pairs with the stolen artwork replaced with redactions that state the names of the original artists those pieces were stolen from.
Stairs buried in so much snow that you can't tell where the steps are anymore
A graphic saying "please stand on the right" (for escalator etiquette) with a figure illustrating where to stand.
Precursor Golem {5} Artifact Creature — Golem When this creature enters, create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems. 3/3
Train tracks in front of a brick wall, which then has a chain link fence with razor wire before another brick wall with barred windows, taken from a Hudson line Metro North train as it passes through the middle of Sing Sing prison.
A screenshot from the 1994 episode of The Simpsons, "Bart Gets an Elephant", showing the Democratic Convention with banners saying "We hate life and ourselves" and "We can't govern!"
Uncle Istvan {1}{B}{B}{B} Creature — Human Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures. Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch. 1/3
The playbill for Hadestown, in front of the Broadway stage at Walter Kerr theater
Two screenshots from Avatar's finale; one captioned "My knees" saying "what... What did you do to me?" And the second captioned "my 30th birthday" saying "I took away your bending"
Ramos, a blue pitbull rescue mutt, lying in a bean bag chair and yawning while tucked in under a quilt.
Lullmage Mentor {1}{U}{U} Creature — Merfolk Wizard Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token. Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell. “Many voices are needed to quiet this land.” 2/2 Illustrated by Jaime Jones
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss {2}{R}{G} Legendary Creature — Human Boar Each creature you control with a mana ability gets +2/+2. Whenever a creature you control with a mana ability attacks, untap it. Whenever you cast a spell, if at least seven mana was spent to cast it, untap target creature. It gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. 4/4
A (foil Korean) Chromatic Lantern next to foil signed fetchlands, foreign black bordered duals, and foil foreign signets.
Celestial Dawn {1}{W}{W} Enchantment Lands you control are Plains. Nonland permanents you control are white. The same is true for spells you control and nonland cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield. You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. You may spend other mana only as though it were colorless mana.
the CIA - the Culinary Institute of America, which has their main campus in Hyde Park just north of Poughkeepsie
Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier {3}{W} Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier Vigilance Whenever Agrus Kos becomes the target of an ability that targets only it, you may pay {1}{R/W}. If you do, copy that ability for each other creature you control that ability could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures. ({R/W} can be paid with either {R} or {W}.) 3/4
Ramos, a blue pitbull/maybe lab or hound shelter mutt, sitting and looking back at the camera while wearing his extra-secure harness.
The officially licensed Costco edition of Monopoly
Ramos, a pitbull mutt shelter rescue sitting and looking back at the camera.
The "Extremist" label from Bluesky's moderation service.
Six copies of the foreign white bordered Demonic Tutor, with Douglas Shuler's signature on it. The card features the flavor text "Das also war des Pudels Kern! Ein fahrender Skolast? Der Kasus macht mich lachen. - J.W. Goethe, Faust", referencing Faust's first encounter with Mephistopheles, who transformed from being disguised as a poodle to a new disguise as a wandering scholar.
Eight old and/or rare Magic cards, including a good condition Unlimited Timetwister.
@davenrod.bsky.social has been suspended after making the skeet that Chelsea quote-skeeted and screenshotted.
The history of left-handedness, showing that when kids stopped being punished for being left handed the rate of identified left-handed children went up until it reached the actual population and then became stable.
A bowl with rice, soybeans, cheese, and sliced porkchops with a dark spice crust.
The SimCity 2000 Advisor screen, with "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" but replacing "FUNDING" with "ACCEPTING BIGOTRY"
February 2013 order, showing Yawgmoth's Will for $11
Weird Al posing on stage at Carnegie Hall at the beginning of his concert
A billboard saying "Where are you going? Heaven or Ohio"
The quoted poster, with the label from @for.shame.wtf‬ showing that they follow Jonathan Chait.
Grismold, the Dreadsower {1}{B}{G} Legendary Creature — Troll Shaman Trample At the beginning of your end step, each player creates a 1/1 green Plant creature token. Whenever a creature token dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grismold. 3/3
Norin the Wary {R} Legendary Creature — Human Warrior When a player casts a spell or a creature attacks, exile Norin. Return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step. “I have a bad feeling about this.” 2/1
Rite of Replication's reprint in Foundations
Magic the Gathering Online crashing, due to a bug in the software.
Chris Cock's Linkedin, showing his transition from Wizards of the Coast to CEO of Hasbro.
Avatar Aang {R}{G}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally Flying, firebending 2 Whenever you waterbend, earthbend, firebend, or airbend, draw a card. Then if you’ve done all four this turn, transform Avatar Aang. When the world needed him most, the Avatar returned. 4/4
A set of framed poster-sized prints of John Avon's Unstable lands, arranged in the proper WUBRG order.
From “A Lady’s Assistant,” by Charlotte Mason (1777) Kitchen Pepper. One ounce of ginger; pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, half an ounce each; six ounces of salt: mix this well, keep it dry. It is a great addition to all brown sauces.
The French printing of Chaos Wand, which was translated as "Baguette du chaos"
The "Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying" warning sign, but with "she" replacing "this".
A shelter rescue blue nose pittbull mutt lying on the couch, leaning against a pillow, mid yawn.
Ramos, a rescue blue nose pitbull mutt, riding shotgun in his own car seat dog bed, looking into the camera while illuminated by the sun.