The Rocky Horror Show (Modern)

Based on original idea by Jeremy Smith for Inquest Magazine #68 (#67, November 2000, p.23)

Original Description: Toilet paper, squirt guns, and Toast? That can mean only one thing...

It's time for the perennial classic for this time of year: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. You can bust out with your own audience participation lines every time you cast a spell.

And if you ever had the urge to spontaneously break out in song and prance around in drag while playing Magic (and who hasn't?), here's your big chance!

Original decklist: One can tell with a quick look at the list that it's all over the place. Despite Rocky Horror's themes of indulgence, innocence lost, and hubris, this deck seems more like an excuse to call Brad Majors an A*Hle. Still, I see potential for a Grixis tricolor reanimation theme deck. Now, if we could just make it a little faster...

This decklist: Gather around, my libertines. The Criminologist has a cautionary tale to tell, a reminder to keep your wits about when travelling across the countryside in a dark and stormy night.

He tells of a debauched mad scientist who loves to cross dress (or was he a woman the whole time? Whatever, Dr. Furter was weird), the siblings who helped him in his dirty work, the lovers he toyed with and discarded, and the unsuspecting couple who got caught in his web of indulgent malice.

There will be scenes of forbidden arts, sudden violence, and other taboo things your mother will never let you watch. There shall be musical numbers, and eye-rolling in-jokes fit for a B-movie narrative like this.

And as with all B-Movies, it's hard to connect with our clean cut protagonists. But that's okay, it makes it easier for you to use them how you see fit. Only when the game ends can it stop. At least, until that time of the year again...