Grandmother Willow
Movie character
17
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Grandmother Willow".
Oct 8, 2026
JimmyHOST
Um, what sort of brought you over to this, um, style of Amber Steel? It's not necessarily our traditional, uh, Amber Steel even before rotation, um, where it has actual ramp in some of these higher cost cards.
KirstenGUEST
I, I- I've, I mean, I feel like in the past I've been playing that more ramp style ever since Grandmother Willow came out and Akud.
KirstenGUEST
I feel like those are always basically staples in Amber nowadays, at least in Amber Steel, and oftentimes in other Amber decks.
KirstenGUEST
Um, I think that the difference is just the amount of higher cost characters, which is, I think, very fun.
KirstenGUEST
I don't, I don't mind if I miss a one-drop.
KirstenGUEST
Um, and there's just different options.
KirstenGUEST
So, like, if you don't have Grandma Wither- Grandmother Willow, you have Ham.
KirstenGUEST
Um, as long as you have, like, an a- a one-drop or a two-drop Angel, depending on if you're going first or second, and you can sing Accoutre, that's even better.
KentHOST
Quinn brought back a tree that was very important to the Cult of Fenris.
KentHOST
Why? Because it was a piece of Grandmother Willow.
KentHOST
But it was only a piece.
KentHOST
You take care of what's within, the tree doesn't necessarily die, though it will over time, as all things do, because it doesn't have that extra oomph.
TatyanaHOST
Eventually, it may take years, decades, centuries or even eventually the edges of a ripple are going to reach you and you'll wonder how you got there.
MollyGUEST
Thank you, Grandmother Willow.
TatyanaHOST
like oh my god and i think that it's so it's just like so important in this day and age where we're having all these conversations about this is getting so fucking deep guys we're like welcome to the therapy session sit down it's like these conversations are getting so deep in the in for us especially in like a creative industry of the questions of ai and like all of that being like shoved down your throat and like what the environmental impacts and things like that are on this and huge developers and like not having anything small and i think like as a generation especially millennials but like I think Gen Z even and us, we are so starved for nostalgia and the simple things and wanting to go back to a different...
TatyanaHOST
None of us asked for this.
Chris WilliamsGUEST
And I, I think that's, it, it's a really fun number, and then it, you know, it's one of the ones that doesn't really resolve.
Chris WilliamsGUEST
It, it kind of turns into more of a searching question number at the end as she goes to see Grandmother Willow.
Chris WilliamsGUEST
Um, but when it's really bouncy, I enjoy it.
Chris WilliamsGUEST
I think it's a lot of fun.
Josh SpiegelHOST
It takes a half hour- Not an, not exaggeration for people who haven't seen the movie in a while.
Josh SpiegelHOST
It takes a half hour for John Smith and Pocahontas to meet each other.
Josh SpiegelHOST
And so th- what I like, I like the song a lot, but I do wish the movie had a little bit more breathing room overall, and to the point where after this song, she goes to, uh, meet with her favorite friend in the forest, the magical talking tree, Grandmother Willow, voiced by Linda Hunt, because obviously the people who made this movie said, "We love The Year of Living Dangerously."
Scott RenshawHOST
[laughs]
Maddie SassmanHOST
Yeah
Colton KingstonHOST
... my, um, my next one, uh, hear me out, is Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas.
Maddie SassmanHOST
Yes.
Colton KingstonHOST
[laughs] 'Cause I, I like being taken care of by a wise woman who literally looks at me and says, "Listen with your heart.
Artie EspositoGUEST
So you were performing your, your hand in his mouth, and then you were- had your other hand above controlling his, his claws.
Artie EspositoGUEST
Um, and then of course the bear puppets, and then I did a, a show called Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends where Grandmother Willow, I was actually inside the Grandmother Willow tree.
Artie EspositoGUEST
So that was sort of a big lip sync, and then I was underground for a character called Sprig, which was a mechanical puppet where we used a monitor to see our performance.
Artie EspositoGUEST
So, so many different types of puppetry.
GlennHOST
Then they're not gaining the law and you can overtake it like that.
GlennHOST
or you can play cards like rapunzel um so the four cost uh emerald rapunzel um who allows you to discard a card and then bounce a character back to their player's hand um so she's four cost but again we're playing amber so we can ramp into her um if we can get an aurora down on one And a Grandma Willow on two, she could come down as early as three and just bounce Mickey and Minnie straight back into the hand.
GlennHOST
And that is a massive, massive tempo swing because it's going to take them another two turns to get it down on board.
GlennHOST
In those two turns with the aggro deck, you're going to have added another three, maybe four characters onto the board.
RyanHOST
It's just such a flexible card and gives you so much consistency that it's by far, in a way, the strongest card that was printed.
RyanHOST
And it is so strong simply because Grandmother Willow exists as well.
RyanHOST
If Grandmother Willow did not exist, you'd be really far behind by using that as your turn one play.
RyanHOST
But because Willow exists and you can play your one drop right next to it, it doesn't matter that you missed turn one with your character board, with you building your board.
RyanHOST
So...
Fancy HagoodGUEST
And I feel like I really just started understanding God more when I thought of it as like a grandmother voice.
KatieHOST
Oh my God, like Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas.
KatieHOST
Exactly.
KatieHOST
That is the vibe.
JeffHOST
Oh, all right.
JeffHOST
Grandmother Willow.
JeffHOST
Mm-hmm.
JeffHOST
Ham.
JeffHOST
So these are your ones that can get you cheaper cards out.
ErikaHOST
Okay.
JeffHOST
So Grandmother Willow, just player, you get minus one on the next character.
JeffHOST
Ham, you actually have to exert.