Storycraft Decks™: The Rhetorica

Storycraft Decks™: The Rhetorica

Card XXX: Brutus

Write the cost of conviction

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What if conviction was heavier than love?

What if the most dangerous decisions were made not from hatred, but from devotion to an idea?

What if the act meant to save the future was the very thing that made it impossible to return?

This is the spirit of Card XXX: Marcus Junius Brutus, The Burdened.

Brutus loved Rome more than he loved Caesar, and that devotion destroyed them both.

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