#Variant RDA

[anxiousdreamcore]

“There was no denying it, RDA descended back to Pandora after fifteen peaceful years, and the sky people are stronger than ever. Sorrow is brought upon the Na’vi once more as the younger generation is forced abandon their carefree lives in order to steel themselves for hell to come. Will they succeed in becoming formidable warriors after a life worth of tranquility? Can they close their hearts to unleash violence in the name of defending all that is dear to them? Will they cave into the cruelty?

How long will they keep that precious spark of innocence protected?”

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This was a project I’ve been working on and off with for almost two months and only recently got the energy to finish. I’m unsure if I can commit to writing the fanfiction itself yet, which will cover all of the Sully children and how they’re dealing with the new war in the period in-between the initial return of RDA and recom encounter, but at least I’m done with the cover! The idea is to mimic the comic book covers of the avatar franchise, and I chose Spider for it because Eywa knows he never gets the spotlight.

I wanted said cover to have a dark atmosphere that reflects the seriousness of Omatikaya’s situation and the loss of innocence for the younger cast of characters. The Spider we see here is a Spider that witnessed his home go up in flames and almost lost his family trying to escape Hell’s gate. He’s cried rivers and the only emotion left in him now is anger, so he is ready to kick ass and help the war effort in whatever way he can, which is demonstrated through how he glares the viewer directly in the eye. In this particular scene, by guarding the loot that they’re transporting to high camp via scorpion. The face paint is a variant of the one Trudy wore in the first movie and I saw it fitting for him to paint himself for the coming battle.

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(Do not repost my artwork on any other platform, with or without credit. I DO NOT give my consent to do so and I will find out😘)

[inkblackorchid]

I feel weird asking this because I 100% expect the answer to be “spoilers”

But do you have any plans to show further variants of the signer dragons in your stories?

We’ve seen Aki and Yusei both have the attitude towards Black Rose Moonlight and Stardust Spark being “I’m happy they exist but they’re not for me” and I think it would be funny if Jack gets irrationally angry at “inferior copies of my soul being available to the public” and then Carly summons Hot Red Dragon Archfiend and he just goes “Of course it’s okay for HER to use it which is why I gave it to her but the point still stands”

And yes, this may have partially been inspired by me wondering if Jack could summon Fortune Lady Every like Aki and Yusei summon each other’s dragons and realizing there aren’t any good spellcasters that synergize with Jack’s deck but the RDAs are generic enough Carly could use them

Hmmmmmmmmmmm without confirming or denying anything that might be in my drafts or idea backlog, I do enjoy thinking about scenarios where other members of the cast could get to use the signature cards of each other. Jack and Carly would certainly be the most obvious candidates, given the way I write them haha.

Jack, I could certainly see being pissed off about Hot Red Dragon Achrfiend's existence. After all, nothing compares to the real thing, and for someone who literally refers to his ace monster as "his soul", any attempt at a copy of it would be nothing short of an offence. (That said, any joyful child with big enough puppy eyes could probably still get him to begrudgingly sign a copy of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend.) That said, would Carly buy Hot Red Dragon Archfiend with a justification along the lines of "now we're a team" or would she eschew it to let him keep his pride? I think there's potential in both scenarios.

And you're unfortunately right insofar as that Fortune Lady Every sadly doesn't work with Jack's deck or tactics nearly as well as Stardust does with Aki's or Black Rose with Yusei's. She's a little too spellcaster-bound and Jack a little too stuck in his own, very spellcaster-removed tactics. So a different method to let them summon each other's monsters or let them reference each other in duels would need to be found.

I can think of two. As for whether you'll see them........ stay tuned?

[elkmoon21]

Drae is my second Variant after Skold, the young Norse god. It’s just like the same timeline as Spider Socorro. He had escaped the Phoenix squad under different circumstances before they took him to the RDA headquarters. After his lucky break, Spider realizes everything in his life was a lie. The scientists, the clan, and the Sully family have never cared for him. He understood why scientists Norm and Max had no qualities to raise a child. The clan either despised or hated him for his blood ties to his "father." And Jake’s family is his only immunity. Sadly, he ended his own life. Far away from the battlefield with no one to witness his final demise. Fortunate for Eywa, she felt pity for him. With all of her love for brave souls, She gives him a gift; She gives him the breath of Pandora. Changed his human blood to Na’vi, but he kept his human appearance. Has white hair and white eyes to prove he is innocent in its color meaning. He has black tattoos as his song-chord. Spider has a new name for rebirth after his death. “Drae” is meant for the invisible spider. With no last name. From the profile of his appearance, he is nineteen years old and joined the resistance alongside So’lek, humans, and the New Sarentu clan. 

[knarme-art]

Public note to self about ALL my Avatar OCs and fanclans...

So one day I might remember to make proper infoshits on them lmao.

Recoms

Esko Ilves - ...Medic and a kind of a badly turned out specimen whose life starts as being locked-up in a confused identity state. Currently a complete mess with the lore. Despite stereotypical masc Finnish old dude name has fat boobs and kinda destroys gender by existing.

Vilhelmi - Finnish-American army grunt who worships and respects nothing else than power. Sour-faced joyless bitch who's a bully whenever he can. Hates happy people. Straight. Simps for scary people. The kind of person whose insecurity is taken on absolutely everyone around him in the most destructive ways possible if he's given authority to do so.

Metkayina

Currently unnamed massive dude - Is actually a masc agender fella who uses masc terms etc. but doesn't actually "feel male" (let alone anything else..). He's gigantic and... Hear me out... He literally kins water, like he doesn't identify with na'vi shape or physique at all. If he was on Tumblr he'd say he's xenogender with an ocean-adjacent gender and that he's... Water but in human form. He's truly an odd one, has a rep as a mighty strong warrior but kind of... Likes to stick to his own company. I think he grew up orphaned and severely neglected, or maybe he's just born that way...? I can't be sure! He hunts RDA as almost like a sport and he's feared like an akula!!

Arctic Na'vi

Arctic Ocean People

These are chunky fellas that are even more extremely aquatic-adapted than Reef Na'vi are. There is mostly just barren tundra or ice for land near them so most of their materials are harvested from their oceanic prey.

One of my fanclans is of these Ocean people...

Ice Pirate - (waiting for proper naming) He is literally a pirate because land dwellers with their ships rob his waters of prey and kill his people too.. So he rides Space!Orcas with his chums to go rob those ships back!

Arctic Land People

Short subspecies of Na'vi who are fuzzier relatives of the rainforest Na'vi. They're very widespread in arctic and subarctic lands of Pandora, and many regional variants have a lot of different colorations going on etc.

I have like three different fanclans of these I've thought about.

The Ship Clan - These are the nemesis of Ice Pirate and his people. This clan is unusually dystopian by na'vi standards, since they're sort of colonizers. They have ships. They sail them ships to places and take stuff.

-> I've got one OC draft who's basically a captain of one of these thieving ships and a personal old nemesis of Ice Pirate

The Silver Fur Clan - These are based on a single painting of mine and an associated headcanon. So far I only know a lot of them became refugees because of something that is going on with their home. They have black and silver or gray hair.

The Ochre Fur Clan - Arctic land dwellers who live someplace remote and isolated. Also based on my headcanon of those same paintings I did. They have curly light-brownish-gray hair.

A little storylet with the two previous clans...

Two women from both of these clans get to know each other due to the displacement of the Silver Furs. The Ochre one comes to love and care for the Silver one deeply, but feels like she can't quite reach her the way she'd like to, - due to the events affecting the Silver one having changed her life in ways the Ochre one has never had to navigate. A gap in being able to relate. My headcanons of these two are very... Slice of life. Displaced person adjusts to new life. Another person learns to know her, but learns on the way that there are nightmares bigger than she can ever do anything about. Two people learning to live in an unpredictable world but also with their own differences. Etc. Especially Ochre one is a chronic "fixer", unknowingly ignoring her own obvious problems to be "helpful" and a lot of the time the result is... All but helpful. In this story everyone's mental health is in shambles. Road to shittyplace (since Na'vi don't know Hell) is paved with Good Intentions, right?

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Now that's all about the Arctic. Moving on!

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Subarctic Lake Dwellers!

A. k. a. my self-insert pseudo-ancient-Baltic-Finnic-influenced Na'vi. These are actually a hybrid population between Arctic Ocean and Arctic Land Na'vi (mirroring the Finno-Ugrian North Asian and Nortwestern European mixed ancestry). They live in a boreal taiga style forested biome with a gigantic fuckton of lakes. Oh no, I wonder if a Finn made this... THERE ARE SO MANY LAKES.

I only have like one OC draft for these guys and he's just... Well.. Basically my fursona Kalamit in Na'vi form. Pompous hedonistic but generous fisherman (*in transmasc butch lesbian sense) who takes great pride in all he can do for ya babeyy. His magnificent bastard energy is unmatched because he's like pure life energy kinda like Kalamit, my sona, thematically is.

No story going on in here. Na'vi!Kalamit is possibly meant to be simply an RP character to craft stories with...

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Kxayltirey Nation

...A. k. a. my most ambitious fanclan and the only one I've properly named so far. This is the one with a fuckton of historical and societal worldbuilding attached. Dystopian situation where a past occupation materially vanished, yet stayed in the minds and ways of the people, severing their connection to Eywa.

Class & ecology issues and dystopian angst of people who are born not knowing why their society teaches self-hate and acceptance of authority figures that have the most impressive gaslighting game ever.

Kxayltirey lore is so expansive that it'll need its own posts. Gonna go over some Kxayl OCs of mine...

Kxasi - Young hunter from Kxaylian outskirts. Everyone is disappearing from his village to pursue a life in the central plateau, - the hegemonious hub of the Kxayl society, so Kxasi follows the path of what makes one a well-accomplished one. Kxasi's whole identity revolves around succeeding in the hierarchy, and he is churned into a full existential crisis when gaining a disability that makes flying an ikran impossible. MORE STORY IS OUT THERE BUT IT'S VERY LONG, SORRY CHUMS. <\3

Commander - Trust me bro, he has an actual name too. One of those "air force commanders" of the Kxayl, but reduced to a humiliating job of training n00bs. Takes a mutual curiosity in Kxasi, who is also from the Outskirts. Both had to fight hard for their position, and neither is well-versed in Plateau social etiquette, and they share old cultural practices that still thrive in the Outskirts, and that have become taboo and disappeared in the central plateau. Commander/Kxasi is a canon ship and they are Toxic Yuri. <3 (how toxic, depends on the verse... )

Kxasi's little bro - Tallest person in his family. Really genuine and nice fella but also will hold his ground. Kxasi is reminded of the goodness of people by his brother.

Kxasi's father - Very knowledgeable hunter of the foresty lower plateau cliffs. Has his ancestry in the now-secluded Gorge Forest part of Kxayl society, so he is a knower of ancient ways. He's plural. Generational trauma because of past conflicts is strong here. Him and Kxasi resemble one another deeply.

Kxasi's mother - ...Is from the Plateau. Knows Kxasi's weaker side and feels protective of it.

Kxasi has two uncles and two aunts. But I'm tired of typing.

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(REMINDER TO WRITE ABOUT THOSE "MISSING LINK SPECIES" THAT ARE TO NA'VI WHAT OTHER HOMININS ARE TO HUMANS, BUT WEIRDER AND MORE EXPANSIVE)

[wavering-eyes]

Open the Floodgates - December 2023 Banlist

Any Josh viewers in chat? There clearly are at Konami.

It's been a really long time since a banlist and the format's developed a lot in different ways that would be difficult to summarize. In lieu of writing all of that, here's a banlist wishlist I banged out a couple of weeks ago out of sheer boredom and I'll use that to talk about the issues last format had which this banlist would presumably have fixed.

Again, NOT THE ACTUAL BANLIST, that comes later. I had:

Banned: Agido the Ancient Sentinel Kelbek the Ancient Vanguard

Agido and Kelbek have had it too good for too long. Tear is not a healthy deck in its current incarnation, it basically exists for gambling addicts. I would be okay with most of the tear names coming back to more than 1 if they banned these. Honestly the shufflers are more toxic but I think this hit does enough to mostly remove them from the format too, aside from tech options in Labrynth etc. I'd like them gone but I think they're less likely.

Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin

I'm biased: I kind of like Isolde. That card being banned would not make me sad but I think Infernoble would be in a healthy place with just Aqua Dolphin banned since Connector turns 3-negate hands into 3-negate double handrip hands and that's fun for literally nobody.

Sillva, Warlord of Dark World

Similarly, Dark World hand loop does not deserve to exist. Ken and Gen were a mistake.

Baronne de Fleur

Baronne is miles better than almost every other Synchro released in years. I think the only deck where it's actually healthy is Swordsoul, and it would be a shame for that deck to lose this, but it's way too strong. This is also a wide hit, it hurts the combo variants of R-ACE and every version of Mannadium and Infernoble.

Hot RDA King Calamity

King Calamity lock should not be a thing, I don't really care how good/bad Centur-Ion is.

Limited: Kashtira Fenrir

Unless you're playing R-ACE or a deck that can't play it, Fenrir is generally better than seeing an engine card.

Rescue-ACE Air Lifter

I thought long and hard about what hit would be best for R-ACE and it's either this, EMERGENCY!, or both. This is the deck's best starter by far since just Hydrant doesn't really get you anywhere.

Unchained Soul of Sharvara

Sharvara to 1 both stops the deck from playing through hand traps as easily and making High Caesar, the only problematic part of that end board. If there's any hit I really wanted it was this. Unchained was the most represented deck last format in terms of YCS wins, for good reason; it's decent into everything at worst and plays very well around sacky blowouts like Shifter.

S:P Little Knight

S:P is the best Link in the game and both R-ACE and Infernoble play two. I honestly think the game would benefit if it was banned but Konami will never do that and putting it to 1 actually does something in this case, so why not.

Pot of Prosperity

I finally got a set from Rarity Collection box tournaments and... this card feels like cheating in much the same way Talent does. Seeing this card feels like you've unlocked the ability to mulligan your hand.

I hope you get the picture: Unchained and R-ACE were roughly the best decks and the combo decks below it were various kinds of unhealthy. I get that a banlist prediction isn't the best way to communicate this since it's also adjusted to stuff Konami probably won't hit since it's new (Sinful Spoils etc.), but the bulk of the analysis here is on the banned cards anyways.

One other concern before we go into the list is Labrynth: Lab is seeing a lot of play right now thanks to a very good R-ACE matchup, and it's seeing a lot of speculation because Transaction Rollback has been confirmed for a TCG release. I don't think it deserves a pre-emptive hit but Eradicator Epidemic Virus or Skill Drain going would be good for the game.

Anyways, the actual banlist:

Banned: Agido Kelbek

Ishizu millers are gone, so Tear is now much less likely to sack you, and that's just about all it's got left at this point.

Mathmech Circular

I have no animosity towards this card in particular (as has been shown!) but it's very emblematic of modern power creep. Circular was a 1-card do EVERYTHING. Mathmech played Small World to search this when it was at 3. Cyberse piles played it too.

With that said, this ban is a huge surprise. Mathmech has been virtually irrelevant since Bystials came out, and I think totally irrelevant since Circular was limited. I have legitimately no idea what inspired this.

Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights

So we're taking the low road. It's hard to overstate how much this card did for Infernoble, but it saw play in Mikanko as well: you could mill Arabesque to summon out Renaud and add it back, which starts your entire engine, or mill Mayowashidori and have that setup prepared for later. That deck also played enough equips to summon out Ha-Re or Ken/Gen if necessary.

Modern builds of Infernoble played 2 Infernoble Arms names alongside Phoenix Blade, D.D.R., and Angelica's Angelic Ring as targets to mill off of this, and it hardly ever mattered even if you drew two. Angelica's Ring is of interest here since Charles can equip it from GY thus adding another negate to the board--one which works against Super Polymerization and Dark Ruler No More.

I think the core idea of the design--you have to play bricks to get a summon from deck--is fine. But warriors are way too good and this card has been living on borrowed time for five years.

Future Infernoble builds will probably have to go all-in on Angelica or something, but I don't see how you play the deck competitively without this.

Limited Unchained Soul of Sharvara Rescue-ACE Air Lifter

Nice call, me!

Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders

All of these cards could come to 1, or maybe even 3, and they would be fine. The hand effects still go -1 and they are not better cards to mill off of Ravine than Absorouter or Bystial Lubellion, so who cares.

Orcust Harp Horror

This card could have been unbanned years ago. It's a shame we only got it back after Bystials came out, but something tells me that Normal Summon Girsu is gonna be a fine play anyways... (Read on.)

Gozen Match Rivalry of Warlords There Can Be Only One

It's a holiday miracle. Floodgate bozos BTFO. As you can see above, I didn't expect this to ever happen but it's genuinely pretty great for the game.

Skill Drain next please!

Sunavalon Dryas Sunavalon Healer

Rikka Sunavalon is, on paper at least, an insane combo deck. This deck can put up multiple interruptions off of literally just Unexpected Dai and has plenty of space for non-engine--not to mention how much work the Rikka cards put in thanks to Konkon and Sheet adding S/T based disruption, Princess insulating you from monster effects, and the Xyz monsters adding more traditional monster-based disruption. On paper it has answers to virtually anything and you could build your board in ways to play around a large variety of cards.

Note that--on paper. This deck is not good into handtraps, and last format was definitely a handtrap format. Rikka Sunavalon saw a bit of success a few months ago, mostly in Europe and the fringes of the NAWCQ, but overall was fairly well balanced by the steep difficulty of the deck and its fragility going second.

I think the most likely hit to this deck--which I didn't feel was necessary--would have been Jasmine to 1, since that card is not once per turn, and the deck regularly used Healer to trigger both copies at once. But this hit is pretty staggering--the extra is now short 3 cards.

Ib the World Chalice Justiciar

Denglong came back a list or two ago and saw no success whatsoever. Now we have Justi back and it's... interesting.

I will go on record saying that this is, short of any currently-unprinted legacy support, a better card than Denglong. Its targets are overall much better and it plays better with most decks. Denglong bricks were generally very bad to see and relatively weak unless you were going all in on it.

With that said, Denglong also had obvious decks to slot into--Swordsoul, Adventurer decks playing Tenyi cards, etc. I don't know what currently existing deck would want to play this since it would virtually demand a rebuild around it. I'm gonna throw a dart at the wall and mention Runick Generaider which could play Sinful Spoils for Jet Synchron or something, since that enables both Baronne and this, and Monstrosity is just about the sackiest play in that deck. There's also World Legacy Orcust, whatever you want to call the upcoming cope variant, since your backup for getting Harp Horror stopped after opening Girsu could be a Justiciar combo of some sort. But I don't expect much regardless. I guess there's also maybe some Runick Synchro deck (entirely separate from Runick Bystial, it would be P.U.N.K. or Synchron or something) that could possibly exist but I don't have super high hopes for it.

For anyone thinking about it, this card's best "obvious" targets are World Legacy Monstrosity, World Legacy Guardragon, and World Legacy's Succession. If you're trying to play Mekk-Knights, all of their backrow that negates cards on a column basis are World Legacy cards, and Girsu makes this card by himself.

Update: around 12 hours later. I've done some testing and I think Dragon Link is the only real deck for this card. In practice you need a bunch of setup for the Girsu to make this going first for your various Monstrosity decks, so your best option is actually Draconnet and that's kinda garbage. World Chalice isn't going to be stealing tops anytime soon either, and it was basically proto-Dragon Link anyways. Dragon Link can make this off of like BMD + Quick Launch and that combo is okay, ending on something like Spheres + S:P and Regained with 4 cards in hand. I don't think any of the bricks are going to see play though.

Snatch Steal

Change of Heart is back at 1 and this is actually less searchable thanks to Triple Tactics Thrust. Surprisingly, this card should actually be fine. Though there are a concerning amount of monster-stealing effects in the game, going second is currently not strong enough of an option to support a strategy built around it. (Read on.)

Semi-Limited Purrely Sleepy Memory

With Delicious limited, this is the best Memory card left, at least going first: either cat using this as material summons out Epurrely Noir which sets Purrelyeap from deck if you have another spell. Next standby you can draw a card for every Sleepy Memory underneath Noir, then activate Yeap to turn it into Expurrely Noir--and since it's now a different card, draw the same number of cards off of Sleepy, up to potentially six if you had all three. Now it's 4 at max.

This also slightly disrupts the usual line off of My Friend Purrely, which prior to this would usually reveal three copies of Sleepy Memory going first. Now it's probably going to be both remaining copies and Delicious, which is what you'd do if you already drew one.

I don't think Purrely was a particularly fun deck to play against and this hit was definitely deserved. With that said, once the Goblin archetype comes out next set, I would not expect to see much more from Purrely, even if this card was at 3.

Dinowrestler Pankratops

Last seen at 3 in Eternal format, where its statline and Quick Effect forced two-for-ones against (interrupted) Orcust, Salamangreat, and Sky Striker boards alike, Pankratops has consistently seen play since being Limited and I do not expect that to change going forward. While he has some competition with Kashtira Fenrir around, make no mistake--Pankratops is usually the better card going second and Fenrir is favored due to its utility going first. That aside, there's not enough anti-synergy to prevent you from playing both.

Speedroid Terrortop

Last seen summoning M-X Saber Invoker off of 1 card in Zoodiac format. Rank 3 monsters are still plenty strong. I would not count this card out in the slightest, doubly so if it comes to 3 later. With that said, as I recall, the OCG last played this to make Miragestallio, and Salamangreat--surprisingly--has better things to be doing than that*.

*I'd love to elaborate but it's kind of an insider secret for now.

Unlimited

Grouping these together based on relevance.

Infernity Archfiend Spellbook of Judgment

Unhits to decks that should have stayed in 2014. Launcher is still at 1 and Infernity is still going to be bad as long as handtraps exist. Judgment saw no play after its unban because Spellbooks are way too slow to compete and Jowgen control is not real.

Kashtira Unicorn Spright Starter

Housekeeping. Undoing semi-limits delivered as a slap on the wrist to decks that are largely irrelevant after Konami banned their best ED monster.

Mind Control

You can go through my old posts for proof: I was always a believer in Mind Control. I called it when it first went back to 3 and enjoyed my victory lap once it was hit again.

The game's changed a lot since: most notably, Change of Heart was unbanned (and now Snatch Steal, too...), and Triple Tactics Talent and Thrust were printed. This card is worse than all of those, so the question is no longer "Would you want to take your opponent's monsters?" and is now "Would you play this alongside the much better options that now exist?" and I think the answer is "no" for most decks. If this sees play, it will be in budget lists or in lists already maxed out on all of the above cards.

Upstart Goblin

Let's get this out of the way. Uninformed scrubs like to mythologize Hoban playing triple Upstart in every deck back in 2014 as proof that this card stayed on the list due to the power of 37-card decks, but it's been ten years and this is no longer HAT format. Most decks play hand traps and seeing Upstart going second when it could have been a hand trap is bad. This card is also unbelievably bad into Droll & Lock Bird which has seen near-constant Side Deck play since 2019, so that doesn't help either. The only reason you'd play this is for synergy or deck-thinning in decks that simply don't play going-second cards, so I would expect this to see play in Dark World (the illusion of free choice: you will still lose to Droll), Endymion decks (since those cards no longer see play in Pendulum piles) and Sky Striker (mega-cope) and very little else.

So. Not useless but I would not expect to see it in anything good.

Pot of Desires

The discussion of the relative strength of the Pot cards is very complex and well out of the scope of this post. I have been asking for a Desires ban for years and accept that I'll probably never get it, but the fact that Prosperity's drawback is so low that even ED combo decks like Mannadium can play it is not a great look for this card since you can't play both.

That said--you should literally never count this card out. It being moved to 3 is an attempt to shape the game and not a statement of this card's power level.

END

Unchained now has to choose between setting a trap off of Sharvara or making High Caesar, and they'll probably always choose the trap. The card not being at 3 also means you are much less likely to be able to hold one in hand to have your Tour Guide dodge Impermanence, or to pop your own cards on your opponent's turn unless you add it back off of Soul of Rage. This deck was mostly fair but this helps smooth out the excessively strong parts. Maybe there's a world where the deck starts playing double Shyama for Caesar but that just sounds awful.

R-ACE lost 2 copies of their best starter. I expect the deck to still perform, though this is a serious hit.

Infernoble is virtually dead in the water.

Mikanko lost universal access to Ken/Gen and will have to totally rebuild, but still has some things going for it--mostly Hu-Li.

Tear is pretty trash now. I don't think it's even in cope territory without millers, there's just no way you can expect to sack with just Scream and Tearlaments Kashtira milling 5.

Labrynth is looking very nice. Fire Kings are looking alright too. Most every FIRE deck can expect a boost once Promethean Princess comes out, including R-ACE.

Mannadium is untouched. Droll is the only thing holding this deck back--it can play through literally everything else.

Until next time.

[e-vapormo]

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[avatarmerch]

The Next Shadow

Unlike Tsu'tey's Path, these comics did not receive variant covers. They did, however, receive a brand new cover for their trade paperback (the last image). "The Next Shadow" picks up immediately after the first movie ended. Jake struggles with his new role as Olo'eyktan and human/Na'vi peacemaker, as well as his guilt about not warning the Omatikaya of the RDA's plan to kill Kelutral.

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[improvingovertime]

November 18 & 19, 2019

I haven't kept up with these last week, but I'm back 😊

Nutrition 6/10

I did well enough these last two days, but today in particular I ate a bit more than I intended and didn't meet all of my RDAs

Exercise 10/10

I jogged yesterday and did my full strength routine today! It's Workout A, which focuses more on harder exercise variants and fewer reps. Met my goals both days!

[problem-cataloger]

One drop / Elixer Productions Inc. (OCLC #48113659)

RDA 2.3.2 on Title Proper says to take this element from the preferred source of information, which for videorecordings is the title frame or frames (RDA 2.2.2.3):

245 00 ǂa One drop / ǂc Elixer Productions Inc.

There is an alternative, which is to use a label with a title that is permanently printed on or affixed to the manifestation in preference to the title frame or frames. Policy statements vary on this alternative, with NLA PS and LAC PS saying not to apply the alternative, D-A-CH AWR saying to apply the alternative, and BL PS saying to use cataloguer's judgement (LC PCC PS provides no guidance). We do not apply the alternative, and instead record any label or container title as a variant title:

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La metapolítica rusa del nacional-bolchevismo

Por Georges FELTIN-TRACOL

Traducción de Juan Gabriel Caro Rivera

 Gracias a las excelentes ediciones bretonas de Ars Magna (cuya sede está en Nantes), el lector francés por fin puede acceder a una excelente traducción del libro Los templarios del proletariado de Alexander Dugin. El autor del libro justifica el enigmático título de su libro, ya que compara a los productores o trabajadores de nuestro mundo postmoderno con la Orden del Temple, prohibida por el rey francés Felipe IV el hermoso en 1314. Sin embargo, la Orden siguió existiendo en otros lugares, como Portugal y Escocia, pero ahora esta misma Orden recibe otros nombres y tiene otras denominaciones.

 Alexander Dugin dice que “los trabajadores han desaparecido de nuestras vidas. Una vez que ellos perdieron su camino, terminaron por transformarse en otra cosa. El trabajo que hace el proletariado hoy, en una época dominada por la gestión y el saber, ha acabado por ser devaluado” (pp. 171-172). No obstante, Dugin afirma que “el trabajador no se ha ido a ningún lado realmente. Simplemente ha retornado a la clandestinidad, pues fue traicionado por el degenerado socialismo soviético, además de ser estrangulado por la soga del traicionero Capital que ahora no solo impone un dominio externo y formal, sino también un dominio absoluto e interno. Por lo tanto, el trabajador contempla con tristeza la repugnante realidad que ha sido construida a su alrededor por sinvergüenzas de todo tipo, raza o clase” (p. 172). Esta tendencia ha sido igualmente percibida por periodistas (David Goodhart), geógrafos (Christophe Guilluy) y demógrafos (Emmanuel Todd) occidentales que, un cuarto de siglo después, han comenzado a subrayar estos hechos, pero usando metáforas mucho menos literarias como lo son “los que no pertenecen a ningún lado” o la “Francia periférica”. Alexander Dugin señala que el nacional-bolchevismo implica “una especie de síntesis entre los elementos salvíficos del poder y la rebelión, entre el conservadurismo (nacional, religioso, estatal) y la revolución (como principio escatológico, sacrificador, renovador de la vida)” (p. 81).

 La paradoja política

 Alexander Dugin escribió este texto en 1996 y en ese entonces él, junto con Eduard Limonov, lideraba el Partido Nacional Bolchevique. Este partido se opusó radicalmente al ultra-liberalismo de Yeltsin, a la desintegración de la Unión Soviética y al hecho de que Moscú estuviera al servicio del atlantismo. Los templarios del proletariado son un intento de formalizar el término "nacional-bolchevismo" como una parte de las contracciones políticas que sufre el espacio exsoviético. Este término proviene de los intentos alemanes de crear un frente nacional-comunista, intentos que fueron liderados por los hamburgueses Heinrich Laufenberg (1872-1932) y Fritz Wolfheim (1888-1942), durante la República de Weimar. Además, dentro de esta corriente podemos incluir a los miembros más radicales de la Revolución Conservadora que, organizados en torno a la revista Widerstand de Ernst Niekisch (1889-1967) (el “prusiano rojo”), junto con el Frente Negro de Otto Strasser y otros nacional-bolcheviques alemanes como August Winnig, Karl Paetel o Harro Schulze-Boysen (1), intentaron fundar una alternativa política que lucharía en contra de la “sociedad abierta” liberal, progresista y libertaria defendida por Karl Popper. Alexander Dugin dice que ha existido en la rica y variada historia de Rusia una corriente equivalente.

 Dugin argumenta que las diversas sectas que surgieron del Raskol, es decir, el gran cisma ortodoxo ruso que sucedió entre 1666-1667 y que enfrentó a los partidarios “modernistas” del patriarca Nikon de Moscú contra los "viejos creyentes" tradicionalistas, están relacionadas con este problema. Los Viejos Creyentes fueron quienes conservaron las ideas tradicionales y terminaron siendo víctimas de frecuentes persecuciones que en algunas ocasiones desembocaron en una defensa de compromisos revolucionarios maximalistas y que conduciría durante la "Edad de Plata" (1880 - 1914) a diversos ataques realizados por los nihilistas. El año 1666 parece tener un significado cronológico muy importante. ¿Acaso no sucedió ese año el "gran incendio" que devastó Londres? Es casi como si ese acontecimiento hubiera destruido el viejo aspecto medieval y telúrico de la capital inglesa, todavía demasiado centrado en cuestiones continentales, y con ello hubiera dado nacimiento a un sistema mercantil, oceánico y planetario... Por lo tanto, las ideas nacional-bolcheviques de Dugin complementan las lecturas y propuestas antropológicas que hace Emmanuel Todd a la hora de estudiar las estructuras familiares. Resulta interesante que Emmanuel Todd señale que dentro del pueblo ruso siempre ha existido un fuerte vínculo entre la autoridad y la igualdad.

 El libro de Los templarios del proletariado diferencia el nacional-bolchevismo del nacional-comunismo. Dugin dice que esta última denominación "se refiere a tendencias separatistas que existían dentro de las nacionalidades periféricas de Rusia y que buscaban utilizar la Revolución de Octubre para poder obtener su propia independencia nacional" (p. 106). El triunfo del comunismo conduce a una especie de heterotelía, es decir, lleva a un conservadurismo de las costumbres. “Por lo tanto, no debe extrañarnos que las revoluciones socialistas que ocurrieron fuera de Rusia hayan únicamente ocurrido en el Este, es decir, en China, Corea, Vietnam, etc. Todo ello demuestra nuevamente que son las naciones y pueblos tradicionales, aquellos que no progresistas y que tienen poco de modernos (es decir, menos "alienados") y, por lo tanto, que son más conservadores, que están más "a la derecha", los que de verdad reconocieron la mística y esencia que existe en el comunismo, una especie de espiritualidad bolchevique. El nacional-bolchevismo heredó de esta tradición bolchevique y creo una especie de “comunismo de derecha” (p. 29). También se debe recordar que la revolución cubana castrista condenaba la homosexualidad. Además de que, durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980, el comunismo internacional adoptó en varias partes elementos que claramente eran "nacionalistas". O el hecho de que el PCF, antes de aprobar el uso de buldóceres en contra de los hogares de los inmigrantes, apoyó activamente la disuasión nuclear del general De Gaulle. La RDA revivió en gran parte la tradición militar del "Rey Sargento" y de su hijo Federico II, mientras que Rumania incluso quería crear su propia hegemonía nacional-comunista al margen del Pacto de Varsovia. La Albania de Enver Hojda, el último Estado estalinista-maoísta del mundo, intento por todos los medios conseguir la autarquía. En Asia también podemos encontrar estos elementos en el programa nuclear militar de la República Popular Democrática de Corea o en la Kampuchea Democrática de los Jémeres Rojos que obligaron a los camboyanos a redescubrir el mundo rural. O también en como el revolucionario Ernesto Che Guevara apoyó a la oposición peronista en Argentina.

 La versión rusa del nacional-bolchevismo desarrollada por Alexander Dugin amalgama en su interior la dinámica militante de la Revolución conservadora, la creencia radical en la ortodoxa, la concepción blanquista-leninista de la toma del poder por parte de un partido de revolucionarios profesionales y la influencia de los primeros eurasianistas, sin hablar del esoterismo que subyace a las obras de René Guénon y Julius Evola. Este eclecticismo planteado por Dugin intenta reinterpretar el papel histórico del sovietismo y entrar en polémica con el hecho de que el marxismo sea entendido nada más que como una especie de física social. “Desde el punto de vista de la historia de la izquierda”, escribe el pensador quebequense Mathieu Bock-Côté, “el marxismo nunca ha sido simplemente una sociología obrera o una crítica del capitalismo, sino un medio para comprender el conflicto social y convertirse en el portador de una dinámica de emancipación” (2). Si estamos de acuerdo con esta observación, que fue hecho muchísimo tiempo después, podemos decir que Alexander Dugin está interesado en suscitar toda clase de antagonismos, tanto en la sociedad como en la geopolítica.

 Una especie de eclecticismo

 Dugin, de forma pedagógica, intenta presentar los sutiles matices que existen entre los "nacional-bolcheviques de izquierda", que estaban muy interesados en la geopolítica de la joven Unión Soviética, y los "nacional-bolcheviques de derecha" representados por Nikolai Ustryalov, un refugiado del ejército blanco proveniente de la ciudad manchú de Harbin. Este “nacional-bolchevismo de derecha” sentía una gran desconfianza frente al “nacional-bolchevismo de izquierda” de Joseph Stalin, en ese entonces líder del Kremlin. Pero estos vaivenes políticos no impidieron que “el nacional-bolchevismo llegara a ser considerado como una de las muchas variantes de la Gran Rusia euroasiática, la cual estaba llamada a unificar todas las antiguas tierras del Imperio ruso en un único Estado socialista centralizado: la URSS” (p. 106).

 Alexander Dugin agrega a estas originales consideraciones históricas y políticas, algunos interesantes análisis de diversas obras literarias tanto extranjeras como rusas. Estudia la Llama, una novela de Pimen Karpov, Crimen y castigo de Fedor Dostoyevsky, El trabajador de Ernst Jünger o los escritos de su amigo Jean Parvulesco. Dentro de todas estas novelas y ensayos, encuentra “una experiencia erótica radical. Una especie de extremismo social. Una fusión espiritual con la nación que se logra por medio de la historia y atraviesa los siglos y las épocas. Se trata de un deseo abrumador que ama los abismos espirituales y los mundos secretos. Es la búsqueda de lo sagrado. La guerra contra lo profano. Es el nacional-bolchevismo eterno” (p. 129).

 El libro le rinde un muy original homenaje a Guy Debord quien, fuera de sus problemas de salud (debido al consumo excesivo de alcohol), se suicidio en 1994 y con ello marcó el momento donde “lo que quedaba de la conciencia inconformista en Occidente acepta la derrota total y el advenimiento del triunfo final del Sistema” (p. 148)". Debord, quien estaba dividido entre su prestigio intelectual como marxista, las inquietudes artísticas existenciales, sus particularidades cinematográficas, su interés intransigente por la cultura clásica y sus concepciones estratégicas que lo habían empujado hasta los límites de una "política inimaginable", fue el autor de un libro conocido como La sociedad del espectáculo. Este libro puede considerarse como el momento de apertura del "camino de la mano izquierda" para llevar a cabo una práctica audaz, atrevida e incluso peligrosa de cabalgar sobre el nihilismo contemporáneo con tal de superarlo de una vez.

 Y es precisamente desde esta última perspectiva que Alexander Dugin considera que el espíritu ruso es el katechon que debe dar nacimiento a una "Tercera Roma" continental. Sin embargo, este futuro imperial no debe desligarse para nada de los problemas sociales. Por lo tanto, es importante entender que “el nacional-bolchevismo es un método espiritual, una forma de dialéctica nacional que considera el destino del pueblo ruso y del Estado ruso como un camino mesiánico que deben seguir los elegidos con tal de traducir semejante hazaña escatológica, realizada por la comunidad ortodoxa, a una realidad práctica que permita alcanzar mediante todos los extremos, excesos y paradojas, ese ideal único que toma la forma de una sustancia social y política real” (p. 85). Es por esto que “el nacional-bolchevismo ruso es una expresión modernista de las aspiraciones mesiánicas inherentes que siempre ha tenido el pueblo ruso desde la caída de Constantinopla, pero expresado por medio de conceptos socioeconómicos que intentan crear una sociedad escatológica rusa basada en principios sustentados sobre la justicia, la verdad, la igualdad y otros atributos que tiene este “reino milenario”, pero traducidos al lenguaje de las doctrinas sociopolíticas actuales” (p. 75).

 El nacional-bolchevismo de los años noventa fue, en última instancia, una importante etapa intelectual y militante de la vida de Alexandre Dugin. Posteriormente, Dugin pasó al neo-eurasianismo y luego formuló la "cuarta teoría política" como un modo para superar la revolución conservadora y crear una Gran Europa que este más allá de la derecha, la izquierda y el centro. Esta Gran Europa surgirá de las cenizas de este mundo moderno agonizante.

 Notas:

 1. Sobre la historia del nacional-bolchevismo, además del clásico "Ensayo sobre los diferentes significados de la expresión del nacional-bolchevismo en la Alemania de Weimar 1919-1933", ver Louis Dupeux, National bolchevisme. Stratégie communiste et dynamique conservatrice, dos volúmenes, Librairie Honoré Champion, 1979, también leeremos Franck Canorel, Harro Schulze-Boysen, un national-bolchevik dans l’Orchestre rouge, Alexipharmaque, coll. “Les Réflexives”, 2015.

2. Mathieu Bock-Côté, Le multiculturalisme comme religion politique, Éditions du Cerf, 2016, p. 88.

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