In the game Daybreak, you cooperate with other players to try to halt Climate Change. This card in particular refers to the practice of restoring natural wetland habitats.

Peatlands help filter and clean water, prevent flooding, and provide a home to endagered wild species. They store twice as much carbon as all the forests on earth, despite being 3-4% of the global surface area. Yet construction and agricultural projects can disrupt these lands and their benefits.

Source: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/global-assessment-reveals-huge-potential-peatlands-climate-solution

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Surprisingly tame given the possible draws from this deck, though I see how this card have devastating effectiveness in the hands of a savvy player.

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Trying something a little different today for our wild draw. Instead of using cards, we're using a random recipe. Let's see what we can learn from this fruity little guy (you're welcome for your new gender descriptor).

This recipe has two steps: Combine the ingredients and let chill (three steps if you grate chocolate on for a garnish, which you should). And sometimes it really is that simple. Combine tart and sweet (such as an amount of sugar that would be irresponsible on a daily basis), and there it is.

Side note: grated chocolate as a garnish is essentially fancy sprinkles. And I think sprinkles are the epitome of things adults have no appreciation for despite how much happier they would be with them in their lives. Slow down, have some sprinkles, and enjoy the simple pleasure of unnecessary fun.

Going back to a more abstract card for this one. Set cards are either purple, green, or red with 1, 2, or 3 shapes featuring either solid, hashed, or empty infills. As such, it doesn't fit nicely into a four suit interpretation.

Yet threes are common in spirituality, though its meaning varies from practice to practice. Being a retired mathematician I associate it with the stability of triangles. Being a novice witch I connect it to harmony and balance. Being a runner, I also know it's the hardest mile before it gets easier.

But back to the single solid purple oval. One naturally symbolizes beginnings but also isolation. Solid implies an inner core of determination. Purple is a secondary color of red and blue, down at the bottom of the rainbow and just before ultraviolet on the EM spectrum. Oval comes from "ovum" (egg).

As such, I'm less tempted to view this card as an Ace and more as The Fool. A traveler at the beginning of their journey filled with red hot ambition and cool blue determination. They are freshly hatched and excited to see what's out there, to the detriment of reason and caution.

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Today we take to the skies with what was originally and now colloquially called the "Bearded Tit." As experienced ornithologists will point out, though, it is not a tit, and its markings more resemble a moustache than a beard.

While you may famously associate monogamous birds with penguins, the bearded reedling also mates for life (some level of infidelity notwithstanding). And mate they do, as even the flavor text of this card points out. They can brood as many as four times a year. Probably why this card produces eggs.

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I admit I don't know the most about MtG, but Pain Seer certainly feels viscerally ominous as a title. An uneasy feeling reinforced by the cryptic flavor text: "Every twitching nerve and pulsing vein carries a message, discernible with the right tools." The right tools, I imagine, being those of a wizard who reads the messages told by the squirming and writhing of pain.

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As the card says, playing it allows you to burn bread to summon a toast ghost. This ghost then allows you to force the next player to take three turns for each dead player. 

Mistakes can be costly. They can bring the ghosts of previous experiences into the present, and they might haunt more than just you. But not all spirits are bad. 

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