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| Ba ba ya ga ga.... |
Baba Yaga is a witch of traditional eastern folklore. She's probably most famous for her walking chicken house, so I'm surprised the card went with something else. In folklore, witches seemed to use household objects as magic vehicles. In the Americas it became mostly the broom, but Baba Yaga did in fact use a mortar and pestle, though she still has a broom with her in the quote. As for that quote, yes, it is from a real Russian fairy tale collected by
Alexander Afanasyev.
Now as for the card itself, I find it odd the art went with depicting the mortar and pestle as opposed to the witch herself, though we at least get some menacing figures standing around it. I like to interpret this card's ability as the AI can learn and use programs, similar to how a witch uses spells. Making the program a cyberwitch, which I find very cool.
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