the stream was so fun, i laughed so much during the improvs. i left at the ~3h mark cause my eyes were closing on their own but i can't believe MAID WADA was mentioned at the end AND I. WAS NOT. THERE!!!! I! I! ME ME ME!!! I WANT MAID WADA MEEEE I DOOOOOOOO MEEEEEE I WANT!! MAID!!! WADA!!!!!!!!! TAKES OUT TWENTY CREDIT CARDS AND BASHES THEM ALL ON THE TABLE!!! MAID WADA!!!!!!!
why: little guy in a cute costume stumbling around but still trying to do his absolute best. peak.
also tetro whWHITE?! ...tetro will never end...100 years of tetro!!!!
i love how student 12's fake portrait is a straight up recolor of wada asgfsdf
Jack: "Will you slip away with him?"
Will: "Part of me will always want to."
Jack: "You have to cut that part out."
Will, two episodes earlier: *vividly fantasises about helping Hannibal ~slip~ a knife through Jack's neck, ~cutting~ his throat*
so... while i'm in the middle of reading Harrow the Ninth, some friends have dragged me back into my old addiction, Magic the Gathering. ...so naturally, i came up with a Harrowhark deck.
i like to build decks that are flavourful and thematic more than having clever combos or powerful creatures, and though this is my first time building a deck inspired by something not within the game, i had SO much fun with it.
(commentary under the cut)
first off, this deck is based more specifically on Gideon the Ninth, rather than Harrow the Ninth or The Locked Tomb series in general. of course, Liliana - and in particular, this version of Liliana - is meant to represent Harrow herself, with the Creature version being Harrow as a mere necromancer, and flipping to become a Planeswalker represents her transformation into a Lyctor.
obviously, for a Harrow deck, i had to give it PLENTY of Skeletons, and skeletal non-Skeleton creatures (like Tormod's Cryptkeeper and Carrion Wall). with Skeleton not being one of the more common creature types, i wound up using basically every Skeleton worth its salt... and probably more than a few that aren't.
most of the non-Skeleton creatures represent specific characters. Titan Hunter is Gideon, Blind Zealot represents Harrow's aunts, Marshal Crux is the Priest of Gix, the Dusk Legion Zealot is Ortus Nigenad, and the Vampire Champion is Aiglamene. even though they aren't really hers, the bone constructs i just had to include for being so cool. Grimdancer is the sword-armed construct in the first testing chamber that Harrow and Griddle take on together, while Sepulchral Primordial, Mortivore, and Skeletal Wurm kind of work together to sketch in an outline for Cytherea's boss monster, since i couldn't quite settle on one to represent it in a way i was content with. also, how could i NOT include a card with "sepulchral" in the name?
i also threw in a few other thematically appropriate creatures just to give the deck a little more variety. Cavalier of Night kinda just represents the general concept of cavaliers, while Disowned Ancestor sort of slips in as a reference to Gideon's mother (and a little bit Gideon herself at the end... and perhaps a couple of other characters... maybe even including the Body...). and the way Grief fits into the theme of Harrow should be pretty self-evident.
as for artifacts, Deathrender is for Gideon's two-hander, while Bladed Bracers and Veteran's Armaments are her cav weapons. the Skeleton Key is, of course, the first key Harrow and Griddle recover from the tests (and all the keys, more generally). the living weapons are actually more pulled in from Harrow the Ninth, but they just seemed cool and i wanted to try them out in a deck.
beyond that, most of the other cards are just miscellaneous things that fit the general ideas of "crypts", "bones", and "skeletons", or the general idea of the Ninth House as this group of withdrawn, esoteric cultists... the two cards that i pretty much did just include for mechanical reasons were Jet Medallion (coz i'm just not used to the idea of playing a Commander deck without at least one mana artifact), and Death-Priest of Myrkul who i could handwave as fitting in with the general... necromancer Ninth cultist thing... but honestly, it was just because she's basically the only card that has any sort of tribal effect for Skeletons, and i couldn't quite force myself to ignore that.
