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Hushbarrow

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A silence with a shape. It empties the room of everything you cast with in one long draught, counts your ribs while your hand sits full and unpayable, then puts its entire weight through the marks it made. In its airless dark every spark of mana you conjure is grounded through your own ribs, the Dust you have gathered settles out of the still air a little more with every turn you spend in it, and the Hone on your blade goes off it in the same dead calm.

Boss 181 HP hits for up to 28 7.6 damage per turn on average

The airless one. It takes the breath you cast with in one long draught, counts your ribs while your hand sits full and unpayable, then puts its whole weight through the mark. A deck that scales with cards played per turn falls off a cliff and cannot pay for the block either.

Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
drinks the heat out of your sword-arm in one long draught (Chill 1: your next strike lands at half)debuff1Chill
counts seven points along your ribs (Shatter 3, its next hits land harder)debuff3Shatter
drives its whole weight through the first mark for 22attack22—
closes the distance without a sound for 16attack16—
finds three more points it missed (Shatter 1)debuff1Shatter
THE FOG SWALLOWS what you have worked into it (Shrug 1) (only below 50% HP)shrug1—
spends everything it took from you, all at once, for 28 (only below 50% HP)attack28—
Tuned against

This boss is built to punish the Storm deck. It never stands at the end of Descent I against that deck; from Descent II on, bring something else, or bring an answer.

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❄️ Chill
This unit's next attack deals HALF — one stack is spent per attack.
💜 Shatter
The next hits on this target each deal +3 bonus damage — one stack is spent per hit.
🏜️ Dust
A counter that lasts the whole fight. It is never spent — your Dust cards read it and hit harder the more of it you have.
🗡️ Hone
At turn's end, gain that much Edge — but only if you played 2 or fewer cards this turn. A third card forfeits all of it. Some foes dull your blade and cut what you bank, which is why the card says "up to".
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