Possible Clues:

• Harsh
• Overly harsh
• Harshly punitive
• Cruel old character upset Biblical town to the north
• No card can turn up with the boy being so severe
• How the card turns up on a boy in a harsh sort of way
• Severe rain can do damage
• Very strict
• Like some laws
• Harsh son of Judah trapping one under raised part of deck