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Card #c258IR // #c258Synthesis

You’ve heard the refrain about the Ghosthead always ‘digging for their chances’?

— In our words · Source: The Scar (China Mieville)

[Use when]

Use when a culture treats opportunity as excavation, not luck.

[Why it matters]

Opportunity as geology — chances exist but must be excavated, which reframes luck as labor.

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