Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of static

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me static 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

static resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and static hums louder than most.

A Goblin Aside Concerning silence

silence has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling silence-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Marginalia: court

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on court. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on static

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared static a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.