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Elite

The Sandglass Widow

The Sandglass Widow portrait

The gallery matriarch and the last true spider in it, black and glossy, the red sandglass bright on her abdomen. She shrouds herself in silk and cocoons what stops moving — and she turns the glass on your grains: every dust you bank runs its toll back through you as it is banked. No cold reaches her vault: the frost never slows the fangs.

Elite 103 HP hits for up to 17 3.8 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
spins her shroud (+16 Guard)defend16—
her bite softens what it touches (Swaddle 2)debuff2Swaddle
sinks her fangs for 15attack15—
COCOONS you for the larder — 17 (only below 50% HP)attack17—
presses wet mortarcreep into your seams (Mortarcreep 4) - it rears back a full beat before it lands, then it sets slowly, and it sets on youdebuff4Mortar-Creep
How it scalesFloors 3–5, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 163 HP and its attacks carry +1. On the deepest, 203 HP and +2. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
🛡 Guard
Absorbs incoming damage. Resets at the start of its turn.
🎗️ Swaddle
You can play at most 6 minus that many cards a turn, never fewer than 1. Decays by 1. The wrap slackens a turn of work back to you..
🧱 Mortar-Creep
Whenever you gain Guard from a card, the foe gains that much Guard. Decays by 1. The mortar sets on both of you — turtling hardens the thing you are trying to kill.
Where you meet it
Others behind the same doors
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