ENTRY 27: OVERLORD OF THE HAUNTWOODS

The Hauntwoods are definitely "my" part of the house, forests infested with mutated plants and oversized arthropods. It's a place where "the inside and outside are blurred," plant life bursting in and out of architecture, huge forests still contained in even larger rooms and many, many deteriorating greenhouses. This is where the Wickerfolk form their scattered villages, and sometimes even an ordinary, everyday balustrade will eat you.

The Hauntwoods Overlord is definitely the ghostliest and most elegant of the bunch. Its body is kind of like a hairless grey-skinned deer, but its forelegs are tiny and stunted, plus there's four of them. Its hind legs are fully developed, or overdeveloped, mour humanlike and elongated with extra joints and spindly hands, also there's four of those too! It has a long neck that ends with a small, pale, humanoid face kind of like a little smiling porcelain mask, and surrounding this is blue hood that extends into a vast, dark sheet of flesh, like a manta ray, but also giving the impresion of a huge dark bird, and it connects to the body kind of like a partially flayed pelt!

My favorite detail, however, are the "horns." The top of the hood, just above the little cute face, is impaled by two long, bent metal curtain rods, complete with long, dangling dingy curtains covered in an eerie pattern of black, spade shaped leaves with "eyes." It positively rocks.

Unlike Booksy of the floodpits, Curtains of the Hauntwoods retains more or less the same design in their alternate art card, but you get a nicer closeup look, and now there's a lot more of the little t-rex arms. The head is really cute up close too, like a flattened, happy turtle skull.

Every time Curtains enters or attacks, it creates a colorless land token called "everywhere" that counts as every land type. This is not only useful for generating (colorless) mana, if it does indeed do that (does that have to be specified, or is it just assumed?) but quite a few card abilities interact with the number of lands you control, and generating land tokens is a pretty rare ability.

If you're from reddit or tumblr's Magic the Gathering circles, though, it's possible you recognized today's celebrity from a viral post that I'm going to have to acknowledge or everyone will bring it up anyway:

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