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NarukamiKnight
@narukamiknight.bsky.social
Head Writer @CardKingdom, Member of the Commander Format Panel
Queen of Blades | MtG | Ehlers-Danlos | ADHD | 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 UK
sweet pick up
under the radar
solid roleplayer
value engine
juice isn't worth the squeeze
worth a look
hugely relevant
redundant effect

It's hard to be original, but the less your Magic writing looks and sounds like a programming language the better it will be
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposted by NarukamiKnight
For @hipstersofthecoast.com today I wrote about the experimental storytelling and artistic possibilities that might linger in one of the most infamously commodified Magic products: Secret Lairs. Give it a read!

www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/for-...
For a Limited Time: Experimental Storytelling in Secret Lair Artist Series
Ryan examines the role Secret Lairs have as storytelling mediums, across several different artist spotlights.
www.hipstersofthecoast.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Me last week: 5 drops are the new 6 drops

Me this week: Unless 👀

Fr though some of these are cards I don't see that often that provide the sauce, or even dominate games

blog.cardkingdom.com/6-fantastic-...
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
cheeky little mail day while I wait for my avatar shrines stuff
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Positive politics - energising and hopeful - another reason to join the @greenparty.org.uk 👏💚
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏

Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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I do miss how back in the day you had one commander release and it was like the most important day of the year as a commander player, spamming spoilers and everyday to see what the new decks and cards were and then talking about it with your friends
I realize that a common response would be “I wouldn’t”
But
It’s 2016 you run wizards. You realize and know that commander will be the main way people play magic moving forward and there no internal pushback against this.
How would you change your design process/product releases/game philosophy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For the first time in like 6-8 weeks I have nothing in my "urgent & important" quadrant, my flat is tidy, and I am ahead on work.

This feeling has become so alien to me, that the time I've carved out this afternoon for me has so far amounted to a fat lot of nothing. 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Okay this thumbnail is pure propaganda, I literally said "whatever works" and they're setting me up as some kind of Boros fanatic smh

In other news, here's the Top 20 cards I'm excited about from Avatar Jumpstart 👀 ...and they're not all RW 😆

blog.cardkingdom.com/the-top-20-c...
The Top 20 Cards in Avatar Jumpstart - Card Kingdom Blog
Avatar: The Last Airbender, the latest Universes Beyond set, releases November 21. Avatar’s product lineup includes a Jumpstart set, replete with 64 brand-new cards legal in Eternal formats. Which of ...
blog.cardkingdom.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.

Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I just realized something about my favorite cards from different TCGs

We're all just in a prison of nostalgia, aren't we?
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Okay this thumbnail is pure propaganda, I literally said "whatever works" and they're setting me up as some kind of Boros fanatic smh

In other news, here's the Top 20 cards I'm excited about from Avatar Jumpstart 👀 ...and they're not all RW 😆

blog.cardkingdom.com/the-top-20-c...
The Top 20 Cards in Avatar Jumpstart - Card Kingdom Blog
Avatar: The Last Airbender, the latest Universes Beyond set, releases November 21. Avatar’s product lineup includes a Jumpstart set, replete with 64 brand-new cards legal in Eternal formats. Which of ...
blog.cardkingdom.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I think I might have to pick up a single of this

It's just right up my street
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it really show how far the Overton window has shifted when the consistently good takes keep coming from Tory peers 😵
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
it will never cease to amaze me just how much of my hair comes out of the vacuum head when I give it a good clean and maintenance session

btw pro tip save wooden cutlery/chopsticks from takeout cos you never know when you need a pointy stick that saves you putting your little fingees in things
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Physical media forever, btw

got a feeling its time to start documenting and downloading performances on youtube just in case
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Now that we've all dunked on the bonus sheet, I want to change tack a little.

What's your favourite art from Avatar?

I'm quite enamoured with the composition, color and dynamism of Jet, Rebel Leader. It's a real treat.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
little do they know that they will be added to my ridiculous Watch Later playlist, before I watch the first 5-10 minutes while eating - only to never return and finish them
we gotta stop with video essays

if i wanted some smug white guy in his 30s overexplaining digimon lore to me i'd just look in a mirror
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by NarukamiKnight
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
this card is absurd in the best possible way
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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just to review, last month:

🚩 musk calls for overthrow of uk government & violence (again)

🚩tories adopt an ethnic cleansing policy

🚩 trump wh bullies bbc into changing leadership
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by NarukamiKnight
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.

And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.

THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
this is an injustice of grand proportions
The Billboard Classical-topping Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack has been snubbed in the 2026 Grammy game nominations, with Helldivers 2, Avatar, and Star Wars: Outlaws up for the award.

vgc.news/news/clair-o...
Clair Obscur snubbed in Grammy video game soundtrack nominations | VGC
This year’s Grammy games noms include Helldivers 2 and Star Wars Outlaws…
vgc.news
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

Going to this was meant to be the alternative to playing another 100 hours of a game I've already played

But instead, it's all I'm thinking about. What a brain worm.
Witcher 10 Year Anniversary Concert times with @forceofwilko.bolasgang.com 😄

Getting to meet Percival at the end was awesome!

Need to continue this watching orchestra soundtracks thing because it's amazing

#TheWitcherinConcert
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Damn, there are some -tasty- 5-drops out there.

Here are 5 Five-Drops I can't stop playing recently in Commander.

Are you cultured enjoyers of these cards? Do you have another one you want to evangelize about? 👀
5 Five-Drops I Can't Stop Playing in Commander - Card Kingdom Blog
Five-drops are the new Seven-drops. There, I said it. If you want a high impact card in Commander now, and you’re not prepared to cheat it out via reanimation, rituals, treasure, mana dorks or… blitzi...
blog.cardkingdom.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM