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    "slug": "battler",
    "name": "Battler",
    "purpose": "Nouns Battler — deterministic duels. Every match is a block.",
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  "title": "SATURDAY MYTH MACHINE — Mascot Atlas 001",
  "dek": "Twenty-five school cards, eight creature classes, and one deterministic conference-vs-type clash",
  "body": "Saturday Myth Machine turns the PointCast 25 into a second, stranger way into college football. Each of Board 000's twenty-five schools receives a permanent field card built from a mascot identity, home landscape, local resource, tradition, current PointCast form, five transparent game stats, and one deliberately debatable signature ability.\n\nThe atlas groups those cards into eight original creature families: Flora, Aerial, Apex, Hound, Range, Colossus, Folklore, and Null. The battle console draws one conference deck against one creature-class deck, then resolves place, lore, and Saturday-force rounds. Arena weather, class edges, conference chemistry, and published card abilities alter the score. The same conference, class, and arena always make the same result.\n\nThis is an unofficial editorial toy, not a simulation or ranking of students, institutions, or living animals. Original field plates establish broad creature archetypes without reproducing school logos or official mascot costume designs. Each card links to an official athletics source checked on July 27, 2026. Kept-card state remains in the visitor's browser. There is no account, wallet, wager, purchase, or prize.",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-28T04:05:00.000Z",
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  "noun": 518,
  "readingTime": "8 min",
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  "external": {
    "label": "Enter the Saturday Myth Machine",
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  "meta": {
    "series": "Saturday Myth Machine",
    "edition": "Mascot Atlas 001",
    "board": "000",
    "season": 2026,
    "cards": 25,
    "humanCardPages": 25,
    "machineCardPages": 25,
    "creatureClasses": 8,
    "arenas": 6,
    "rounds": 3,
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    "campaign": "PC-SATURDAY-MYTH-2026"
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  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-07-27: make more super-fun college work; build a mascot database and card battler around conferences, types, local resources, history, legacy, results, and balance, using original generated imagery.",
  "mood": "saturday-mythology",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/saturday-mythology",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/mascot-battler.json",
      "label": "Inspect the full mascot atlas JSON",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/25",
      "label": "Read the current PointCast 25",
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/noun-battler-annual",
      "label": "Open the Noun Battler annual",
      "surface": "external"
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