This might also mean that you remove the ability to more permanently get rid of the card. By blanking the card text, you temporarily remove any abilities on the card, including Forced effects, constant effects, and so on.
This only affects treachery cards that actually enter play – such as those that instruct you to put the card into play in your threat area, such as Frozen in Fear, those that attach to another card in play, such as Locked Door, and those that are put into play next to the agenda deck, such as Tough Crowd. When you use it, you select a non-weakness treachery card in play, and its text box is considered blank for the rest of the round. The actual ability has many nuances and caveats.
It is also possible to use In The Thick of It to purchase it at the start of a campaign. Secrets are a commonly available type of uses in Seeker, and can be replenished with several cards such as Truth From Fiction, Ariadne’s Twine, Enraptured and, of course, Eldritch Sophist.Īs a level 1 asset, it is inexpensive and can reliably be acquired after the first scenario in any campaign. Orphic theory is a relatively cheap asset, using the Arcane slot, which is not typically heavily contested in Seeker. Until the end of the round, treat that card’s printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits). Spend 1 secret: Choose any non-weakness treachery not attached to an Elite enemy. That latter option, at least, is very achievable. I want it as a poster on my wall, as a playmat (which it actually is, for those lucky enough to have attended an Arkham Nights event in 2022) and as a card in my deck. It was created by Ethan Patrick Harris, who has created plenty of other excellent pieces of card art, such as Essence of the Dream and Worlds Merge. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s cover art for an utterly incredible death metal album. The black-on-gold colour scheme is evocative and appealing, and it depicts a bizarre scene with a cosmological diagram with what might be Azathoth in gold at the centre. It’s not clear which of the many meanings of “Orphic” is most emphasised in the card Orphic Theory, but what is clear is that the artwork for the card is completely awesome. The myth of Orpheus has inspired countless works of art through to the present day, all of which could be considered “Orphic”. By extension, the term “Orphic” can also mean ‘mystic’ or refer to significance not readily percieved by the senses, or even ‘entrancing’. Another meaning of Orphism is an offshoot of the Cubist artistic movement in the early 20th Century. Orphic beliefs have been referenced by many later scholars and occultists from the Renaissance period and later. This article will be long enough without reproducing several Wikipedia articles’ worth of analysis, but suffice it to say that the Orphics were an ascetic mystery cult who believed that humanity had a dual nature much like later Dualists, and they expressed complex religious and ritual beliefs through poetry and other art.
Orphism is an ancient religious movement supposedly founded by Orpheus, the legendary bard, animal-charmer and Argonaut of Greek myth who descended to the underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice. “Orphic” refers to Orpheus and, by extension, Orphism. They’ve been positioned at the end of the article so that you can read the rest of the article without campaign spoilers. The table of contents below will let you skip to the parts you need – the ‘Breakdown by treachery card’ section and ‘Breakdown by campaign/scenario’ section might be useful to revisit any time you’re starting a new campaign. After that, I’ll give an overview of how the card interacts with every single eligible treachery card in the game, and then a breakdown of where those treacheries appear by scenario and campaign so that you can judge how valuable it would be to add Orphic Theory to your deck in a given campaign, and how early it’s worth including – as such, this article will to an extent provide analysis of the campaigns in general, and this analysis would be particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of cards that fill a similar niche, such as Alter Fate. I’ll start out by looking at the flavour of the card, followed by its underlying mechanics and quirks, and then deckbuilding. It turns out that Orphic Theory offers great potential depth for analysis, so let’s dive in. Legendary community member Veronica has created her Ambassador project, wherein community members play with and talk about specific cards in the expansion so that each can have a moment in the spotlight – and as luck would have it, I pulled Orphic Theory. The Scarlet Keys Investigator Expansion has arrived, and with it dozens of fascinating player cards, many of which could form the centrepiece of a deck.
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