The Thornwitch, the one who never falls
She heals every turn, poisons anyone who touches her, and lets time do its work.
Third entry in our series on the heroes of Mythsworn: Spells & Poker: the Thornwitch.
Who she is
Keeper of the cursed forest, she smothers her enemies under thorns and spores. She joins the adventure once the Crypt of the Forgotten Kings is freed, in the free part of the game.
How she plays
She is the endurance hero. Her color is Roots (the green cards): three cards of her color in a line deal ×1.5 damage. Her power makes the board's cards grow: a 9 becomes the 10 that closes a straight, a Queen becomes the King of a pair.
She starts with the least health (90), but she heals all the time: she wins long fights, once the poison has had time to work.
Her four forms
Each poker hand fills the Ascension gauge, and she rises in the middle of a fight. Each form hits harder, gains health and armor, and changes her power, and at each Ascension a creature joins her.
- Initiate, Growth (0 mana): a board card rises 1 rank.
- Champion, Blossom (0 mana): two board cards rise 1 rank each. As she becomes a Champion, a Bramble Wall protects her: every blow it takes poisons the monster.
- Legend, Rising Sap (3 mana): the same two cards, then 6 damage to every enemy. As she becomes a Legend, the Elder Tree awakens and heals her.
- Mythic (Transcendence): the ultimate form, unlocked at the end of the adventure. Discover it by playing.
How to play her well
- Raise the card your line is missing before laying your pair: one rank up often makes a straight.
- The Bramble Wall is perfect against monsters that hit often: every blow poisons them.
- Her ideal familiar: Solenne, who heals her even more and cleanses poison and silence.
Next in the series: the Necromancer. To follow the game until its release, the game page has everything, and so do our accounts on X, YouTube and Instagram.