The Speaking Squid

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-Ceph

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Cards: The Minish Cap item cards complete set

The Minish Cap item cards complete set

Here is every item in The Minish Cap set.

This is the twelfth game in the Zelda franchise I have drawn a complete set of item cards for. You can see every complete set here.

You can download the complete set of individual item cards as well as print ready PDFs at the following links:

Black and white print ready PDF on Ko-Fi

$5 Color and black and white PDFs and individual cards Ko-Fi link

$5 Color and black and white PDFs and individual cards on Patreon

I have been at this project a long time and I improved immensely in the course of drawing the roughly 1,200 cards in those first twelve sets. I always look back at the set to see which stands out as my favorites and which ended up missing the mark.

My two favorite drawings out of this set are the match and the birthday candle. I really like the way I approached a burning version of the same object. Also, my kid really likes “blowing out” the double sided cards I printed out and that is worth more than gold.

The cards that really stuck with me for being disappointments were the magic mirror and the water carafe. Metallic objects are still real hard for me, and I’m still pretty disappointed every time I try. Also the face in the magic mirror just didn’t land well.

There are always more items to draw and more cards to share. See you next week for some non-Zelda cards and then we’ll start the Twilight Princess the week after that.

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-Ceph

Sunday, October 18, 2026

The Minish Cap: Daily news

Daily news

Newspapers: These drawings were extra versions of the newspapers representing the swordsman’s newsletters. If you ever need to specifically give your players Sunday’s news, I got you covered.

Your contact said they’d reach out through the regular channels, that means classified ads. You’ve got every paper for the last week spread out in front of you. Now all you have to do is find the coded message to find a way to make contact and get this job started.

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That is the last item cards from the Minish Cap. We have been working our way through these cards for a long time. Thank you for joining me on this ride.

Next week is the collected retrospective, and after that I take a brief break from Zelda items before we dive into the items from the Twilight Princess.

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-Ceph

Sunday, October 11, 2026

The Minish Cap: Some news is hard to hear

Some news is hard to hear

Swordsman Newsletter: These newsletters are filled with helpful tips and adventure hooks to keep Link exploring. Fusing kinstones with the right people begins the newsletter's publication, but Link must earn new tiger scrolls to unlock further newsletters. Each issue costs a whopping 200 rupees, so I wouldn’t be surprised if many players skip these.

Three newspapers seemed like a very lackluster reward for recovering the Professor’s quantum chronometer from the League of Politicians. That was before you really inspected each paper. Yesterday’s news didn’t have any surprises, Today’s news had articles about things that must have happened only a few moments ago, and tomorrow’s news is filled with things that haven’t happened yet, but the lottery numbers have already been cut out.

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Giving a player tomorrow’s news without actually describing it as anything but a folded newspaper is a fun way to reward players that pay attention to small details.

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