After years of uncontrolled MtG addiction, I have so many basic lands that I used them for that, and to scoop up weed to put in the bowl, and to pick my teeth, and to cut into doobie filters, etc etc.

Hint: it’s the ignorance / under-education.

Given that both ends pass through a hole in the post, to the back side that we can’t see, I’m going to guess that knots are holding it in place.