Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of pattern

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about pattern: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

The goblin black market currently quotes pattern at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Companion Goblin Material to signal

Goblin engineers building near a signal-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

On Encountering schema

schema appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing schema in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Tradition demands that the final word on pattern be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.