There are very few things in gaming that is worse than the dreaded Demonic Spider. These things in a nutshell are powerful enemies that are boss worthy but are in reality found amoung the common mook. And they tend to ruin the day of gamers should they get the chance.
So, in your experience, what are the most annoyingly lethal Mooks (i.e. not a character card) you've ever come across in Sentinels?
Glamour takes that spot for me. She will usually hit play and annoy the heck out of any character having a hard time making more than one hit a turn. I still consider her a mook cause she doesn't have a character card.
For me, it's Akash'Bhuta's brambles. The fact that they constantly tie up a character - usually the DPS hero - is really annoying
Hired Guns.
This. Also, whipacorns although whipacorns are easier to deal with.
But the brambles don't fight back.
But they prevent you from acting while the other limbs do fight back.
I hate to admit it but Cursed Acolyte. Suddenly appearing and burning all your team for -2 then another -2 damage sucks.
Somewhere the pantsless one cackles with glee.
Some things are better left unsaid.
As for me, Tamar. She always and only shows up at the worst times, usually involving ships.
Agreed – especially if there's some kind of damage boost out. Villains who hit you twice are always a pain.
Citizen Truth comes to mind since it means I have to take him out regardless of how many other Citizens are in the trash already. He gets worse is Citizen Anvil was already out.
Corrupted Effigy is also bad to encounter.
When Paired with Profane Zealot… Damn…
But for me, Citizen Truth, and GLoomweaver's worshippers with a lot of heroes.
The Dark Hero is a card that makes me groan everytime it comes out, even worse on Dreamers flip side.
Bubbles
Sure, all the other answers here are ok. But when the thing you dread most, more than deamons or serial killers or cosmic entities that can destroy entire universes, are bubbles...well...
But what if they're nice and comradely?
If there is a nice and comradely-esque bubble, i've never seen one.
Wait… are you talking about the Zealot and the Acolyte? or the bubbles. Or a combination?
Those are cultists not bubbles silly
I always thought that Omnitron's Electro-Pulse Explosive card caused more panic than the boss its self. You pretty much have to deal with it as soon as it comes up and ignore everything else or you die.
Yeah Electro-Pulse was my first thought too.
With the right cards though, you can really use it to your advantage.
Ahh, someone beat me to mentioning the EPE - that was the first thing I thought of, too :D. Char is also someone who generally needs to be be dealt with as something of a priority (even more so if any Rabits...err, Imprisoned Rogues are out ;)).
Citizen Truth. You know it in your heart. Him coming out is almost as bad as Devastating Aurora, unless you've got a *ton* of firepower on hand and nothing else you desperately need to kill. And even if you've killed him once, him being dead makes Return With The Dawn tens times scarier, because every single turn there's a chance he'll be back.
Yeah, Truth is pretty nasty. Also, the dreaded Blood/Sweat/Tears combo, and the COHORTS.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears or really anything else that forces a discard are in my list of hated cards to be sure. Although because it hadn't been mentioned here yet I'll submit: The Informant and cards like her. These cards that that punish you for a standard action, and you have to do said action to deal with them. Specifically the out of turn villian plays can really let things get out of hand quickly.
The Periapt of Woe with Runes of Malediction is just an annoying hurdle, but on Orb of Delerium it can slog the game down to a halt with low damage heroes.
The Amazing Mable. True, she's easy to kill, but she's easily the most dangerous of all La Capitan's crew. Kill on Sight, and heaven help you if your team is melee heavy.
Oh, gawd, I forgot about bloody Mable...urgh :P. Yeah, she has to die ASAP >:(. Runes and Effigy are a pain in the arse too. And I agree on the Truth-and-Anvil pairing. And the Informant. Boooo :P.
Claustrophobic Delusion turns target-heavy decks into this. Well, if you have no environment destruction, at least.
The Hitman.
Especially after Chairman has flipped.
You mean the Contract?
I’m gonna have to go with the Sweat + Tears combo. Especially if Truth is also in play…
That or the Cohorts. The Matriarch is tough enough with all the birds and the retaliation damage for all the birds, but then she also has the Carrion Fields. And THEN she ALSO has the Cohorts. And THEN one of them pulls the other out of the trash.
Do Prison Break, Darken the Skies, Devastating Aurora, and Forced Deployment count?
EPE jumped to mind first. Many of the others mentioned. Particularly the Informant. Char comes to mind. There's an Ennead card that destroys hero cards and then unleashes a ton of fire damage.
EPE?
Electro-Pulse Explosive in Omnitron's deck.
Because when it comes out, you totally say "Eep!"
EPE because it's pretty much guranteed to be the first card off the deck when you are playing Omni with some long setup heroes, or 3 player, or both (not that I experienced that recently, grr). Then when you kill it the second one comes out the next turn
Or they both come out the first turn because of rampaging robot...
I don’t really think the Electropulse Explosive counts as a “demonic spider,” though. It’s SUPPOSED to be a big hit, like the Conqueror.
Instagibbing the whole team on turn 1 was probably not a strictly intended outcome.