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Zack Bogucki 🎮🎧
@zbogucki.bsky.social
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🔊 Senior Sound Designer - PlayStation Studios 🎮 Making sure the THWIPs sound THWIPPY and the SNIKTs sound SNIKTY 👁‍🗨 Opinions are my own 🔸️He/Him
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"Copy my homework, but don't make it obvious", feat. the YouTube AI summary on @bmkibler.bsky.social's latest:
A screenshot of the video description of Brian Kibler's video, "Thoughts on Commander and Hybrid Mana," followed by an automated AI summary with near identical wording. The actual description reads, "Kibler shares his (more passionate than he realized before he started filming) thoughts on recent topics in Commander, most notably the proposed change to the hybrid mana rule..." By comparison, the AI summary reads "Brian Kibler passionately discusses proposed Commander rule changes, particularly regarding hybrid mana. The video explores the impact on deckbuilding and the philosophy behind the..."
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Doing a bit of dungeon crawling today... So sick to see my buddy @uppermindink.bsky.social's art in physical form, alongside a bunch of other sick artists! 🗡️💀🎴
Traumatarium Deckulus, a solitaire dungeon crawler using cards and dice. I managed to defeat the boss! A close-up of some of the cards, including a nasty lil harpy illustrated by Juston McKee. A close-up of the deck itself, alongside the Boss card, illustrated by Alexey Gorboot.
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Very proud that the test itself went so smoothly, players were able to pick up all these new cards and get straight to playing! Really put the last two years of working on it all into perspective.

ALSO...There's now an Unwell Kingdom Discord server!! discord.gg/gfjzNeJ8AH
A photo of the UWK table set up at this past weekend's events. I brought my set cube of custom MtG cards, along with a playmat, stamps, a Fable figurine, and some art books featuring characters from our old D&D campaign. A mock MtG card featuring a QR code to join the Unwell Kingdom Discord server.
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to run a public playtest of my custom MtG set for the first time ever! Click through to read the devlog about lessons learned and the decks everyone built:
theunwellkingdom.com/irl-2-the-un...
A thumbnail for the devlog article. It reads "October 2025, Sealed Playtest" A photo of the deckbuilding phase of this playtest. Everyone opened their packs and brewed up decks on a spooky billiards table, before heading back to the main room to play. A photo of the players slinging cards at the event. There were two tables reserved for The Unwell Kingdom, but the event itself had a really great turnout of folks playing their own commander games! Lighting at the venue was.... less than ideal. Here's a pic of a combo one player was delighted to find!
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Does this count? I tend to reference my own hands a lot, which means all the characters I draw end up having long, scrongly fingers and extra deep nail beds!

Works well for wizards and goblins, at least...
An illustration of a pink-haired man holding a strange mushroom creature in his hands. He stares intently at the colors radiating from it. An illustration of an outstretched hand offering a small wood carving of a tree. An illustration of an old wizard pondering an orb. The underside of his oversized hat's brim swirls with distant galaxies. An illustration of a fist bump between four unlikely allies: a medieval soldier, a goblin, a pirate, and a skeleton. A green banner waves behind them.
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Trout is the name of our jumping spider who has given birth five times since we got her a few months ago.
Mama Trout, the jumping spider. She's perched on a shelf of fake mushrooms.
September 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Always blown away by the vibrancy of @dirtcupart.bsky.social's art in The Chromatic Fantasy!! (just got my copy of Fugue #2 in the mail!)

The color choices are bold and unexpected, the linework is lively and delightful, and the characters are so so endearing.

Big recommend.
Roux, a precious tortoiseshell cat, gives a nonchalant glance toward The Chromatic Fantasy: Fugue #2, by H.A
September 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Elemental Art Share feat. WATER. If you see this post something watery!
An underwater view of a sailor diving toward three beckoning sirens. The digital illustration features real watercolors for the background sunbeam and foreground kelp.
September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Also, we've hit a very important milestone! 250 of this custom set's 300 unique cards now have art! There have been some bangers this year, including some incredible pieces from friends.

Just 50 to go.
A homebrew MtG card: Consecrated Circle. It's a white Aura enchantment featuring very special art. A timelapse photograph depicts a handmade cat cleric minifig on a dungeon map, surrounded by paw print of swirling light. A homebrew MtG card: Duke Molto, Cartographer. It's a green creature that searches your deck for a land card. The card art is a royal portrait of a grinning dandy nobleman posing in front of his maps of Lyrea and Crestfall. A homebrew MtG card: Frost Dart. It's a blue instant that pings a creature for 1 damage and puts a stun counter on it. The art features Olly, the nervous wizard of our D&D party frantically freezing the head of a looming wereboar. A homebrew MtG card: Wilhelm, the Fell Prince. It's a legendary creature, and one of the few UWK cards that costs 3+ colors to cast. Because of this, I needed to add a new, gold frame to my card template. The art features an intimidating elven general in near silhouette, rearing up on horseback with the spears of his army climbing the hill behind him. The sky is blood red, and the Resistance sigil, a green branching tree stretches out behind him.
August 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Work on The Unwell Kingdom has been slow but steady, with lots of balance tweaks in the past few months. We had a special playtest this month, featuring a mix of new and old players throwing down with some pre-con decks!

Read all the details here: theunwellkingdom.com/patch-notes-...
A thumbnail graphic watermarked with the Unwell Kingdom sigil. It reads: "August 2025 Patch Notes"
August 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A plump Christmas goose
Charlie, an orange tabby cat, found a wreath to sit in. He stares vacantly at the camera, his tongue peeking out.
July 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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New Lore Post! Here's a glimpse at each the fantastical Wizards of the High Council, showcasing their depictions across lots of different cards.

This arc might be my favorite of the entire Unwell Kingdom story. It tied together so many characters and subplots!

theunwellkingdom.com/lore-spotlig...
A colorful illustration of a council of wizards deliberating in a sunlit atrium.
July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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There have been a few other close calls so far, like this color-swapped common from Final Fantasy and my dear Mole-Molded Mold!

With the 2ish-year dev cycle of official MtG sets, it's likely we thought these up at around the same time! Great minds and all that.
A Magic card from the Final Fantasy set, Undercity Dire Rat. It's a two mana black 2/2 that creates a Treasure token when it dies. A custom Magic card from the Unwell Kingdom set, Mole-Molded Mold. It's a two mana green 2/2 that creates a Treasure token when it dies.
July 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Edge of Eternities? More like EDGING ON MY TURF
...I gotta finish this set before WotC snipes all the card effects.
A Magic the Gathering spoiler card from the upcoming Edge of Eternities set: Pulsar Squadron Ace. It's a white 2-drop that looks at the top five cards and can grab a Spaceship to hand. A Magic the Gathering homebrew card from the Unwell Kingdom set: Fable, Catfolk Cleric. It's a white 2-drop that looks at the top five cards and can grab an Enchantment to hand.
July 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The biggest winner of this patch was a subtheme that's underperformed in previous playtests: "Discard or Sacrifice"!

Persistent Shade is the rework I'm most excited about. It's getting cleaned up to read more easily while supporting a ton of White synergies: discard/sac, blink, aggro, and more!
A before-and-after comparison of a custom Magic card, Persistent Shade. It's being reworked from a 2-mana 2/1 with a Escape so it can be played from the graveyard, into a 1-mana 1/1 that taps a creature as it enters and can be discarded or sacrificed to put a stun counter onto a tapped creature.
June 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Congratulations to The Blade King for becoming commander-eligible! Wonder if I can convince my pod to pretend he's a real card the way he pretended to be a real king in our old D&D campaign. ⚔️

(also shout-out again to @uppermindink.bsky.social for the sick art)
A graphic from Wizards of the Coast featuring a spoiler for an upcoming Spacecraft card and announcing the new commander rules change: "Legendary spacecraft and vehicles with a power/toughness box will be eligible to be your commanders." The Blade King, a custom Magic card. Since he's secretly an empty, animated suit of armor, the card is a Vehicle.
June 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Another month brings another balance patch for The Unwell Kingdom set! Playtests have been getting smoother and more fun with each update, but I still found lots to tweak.

Read the full patch notes here:
theunwellkingdom.com/patch-notes-...
A thumbnail graphic watermarked with the Unwell Kingdom sigil. It reads: "June 2025 Patch Notes"
June 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Like Spitts always says, "If you've got a screw loose, TIGHTEN IT UP"
A colorful digital illustration of Spitts, a goblin with leather safety gear, goggles and several large screws in her head. She's shoveling junk into the roaring furnace of a steam engine.
May 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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While the plan was always to chop off an arm, I didn't expect her to keep it! Over the course of the campaign, she collected enough magic items to convert her limb into an absurd magical weapon, which she dubbed The Blessing!
A fake Magic card called "The Blessing", a 3-mana equipment that taps for red mana and gives an equipped creature +1/+0, first strike, and reach. The art features a close-up of a grinning Mishka holding a doodle of herself wielding a bizarre weapon: an arm with hands on either end, gripping a sword, and entirely on fire!
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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@lumiseal.bsky.social drew this sick rendition of her #DnD character Mishka, the tiefling fighter of the party! She got her arm lopped off in an early arc and turned it into her signature weapon... it was fun to translate that into a card effect!

Love the intensity of that glare
A fake Magic card called "Mishka, Unfazed Fighter." It features a purple tiefling clutching the bright red stump of her arm and glaring with a vicious intensity. Lumi's Mishka art on its own, without any of the card frame or text. It's easier to see details like her shredded abs, or the triple scar that lines up across her face and shoulder. Strands of white hair drape alongside her spiral horns. The piece is watermarked with the Unwell Kingdom logo, and the text "lumiseal - twitter bsky twitch".
May 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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During our D&D campaign, I'd always described Merka as baking cakes. But when my gf baked these tarts last year (left: savory tomato/cheese, right: sweet fig), they looked so nice I knew I should base the art on em!
A picture of two fresh-baked, pie-sized tarts. Savory on the left with sliced garden tomatoes, and sweet on the right topped with wedges of fig.
May 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Lore Spotlight: The Tale of a Tart!

I wrote up a quick devlog about the unique ways card art can hint at larger, interconnected stories. Here, I connect the dots between 7 cards in the Unwell Kingdom set to show the full arc of this fig tart!

Check it out: theunwellkingdom.com/lore-spotlig...
A colorful digital illustration of a fresh-baked fig tart.
May 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Here are a few of the changes I'm most excited to test out! Cutting some fiddly/unintuitive effects for more straightforward support, and trying my best to make The Chroma Tree a massive build-around bomb for players to strive for.
Old and new versions of The Chroma Tree, a 5-color mythic enchantment. Before, it was a clunky infinite-value engine that was difficult to parse. Now, it's even more expensive, but it gains convoke, Inspire 10, and the ability to cast a free spell from almost anywhere once per turn. Brink of Exhaustion, a 4-mana Blue instant that went wide with tapping and stun counters, is now cut. Replacing it is High Council Summons, a 3-mana Blue sorcery that creates a Wizard creature token and then draws as many cards as you have Wizards. Lay Low, a 2-mana White instant that protected your board at the cost of stun counters, is now cut. Replacing it is Short Rest, a 3-mana White instant that untaps all your creatures and gives them hexproof for the turn. Master Zell, the Visionary used to be a wonky redirect effect, with the ability to untap your creatures tacked on. This didn't play well in practice, so it's being reworked to be an exile payoff with the ability to exile your own permanents and cast them again later. This should retain her tricky prankster role.
May 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🔮The Unwell Kingdom - May Patch Notes🔮

Mostly minor tweaks and fixes this month, but there are a few complete reworks and brand-new cards coming in to replace some under-performers!

Read about all the changes here: theunwellkingdom.com/patch-notes-...
A graphic that reads "May 2025 Patch Notes". The Unwell Kingdom set symbol, a branched golden sigil, watermarks the background.
May 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Got my copy of Puffer and Clarissa by @jamesnelsonart.bsky.social !! Great to have the entire graphic novel in one place (plus a few new bonus chapters at the end!)
A picture of the graphic novel "Puffer and Clarissa" being held up next to Roux, a tortoiseshell cat and bonafide cutie pie.
May 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM