Sleeping Princess

* Normal
* Upgrade

**Sleeping Princess** is a character card. She is a 0/8, but casting a targeted spell on her transforms her into an Awoken Princess - an 8/8.

## Strategy

**Sleeping Princess** is a 0/8 character, meaning that at base, she will not attack or counterattack.

In some situations, **Sleeping Princess**'s base form can actually be somewhat useful provided she does not have an attack buff - perhaps you have Ranged characters in your backline, and if **Sleeping Princess** is on the front line, the enemies will need to kill her before they can access your back-line. And **Sleeping Princess** will not take up the back-line's attacks, as hers is skipped. 1 Alternately, she can be buffed with Mad Mim or other Attack boosts to be somewhat respectable in combat on 3.0 or 3.1 using her Health pool despite her base 0 Attack.

However, the most common time where **Sleeping Princess** is useful is if you are able to cast a targeted Spell on her to wake her up, turning her into the Awoken Princess. With an 8/8 stat line, she is the strongest level 3 character in terms of raw stats. If you are fortunate to find her in the same shop as a targetable spell and need an immediate power boost (as most boards do), taking **Sleeping Princess** and waking her up is a strong play.

A riskier play, if you are more desperate, is to take **Sleeping Princess** in the hopes of using such a spell on a future shop. However, this play is not as reliable as you might think, as there are only 5 spells in the level 2-3 pool that can transform her to Awoken Princess without also permanently turning her into something else:

* Magic Research
* Luna's Grace
* Sugar and Spice
* Potion of Heroism
* Mixawizzle (she will be Awoken Princess once she changes back)

This gives any given shop a roughly 20% chance of being able to transform her.

Gwen can also use her Knighthood on **Sleeping Princess** to wake her up and upgrade her - having a 16/16 on turn 4 or 5 is a huge power spike.

**Sleeping Princess** and Awoken Princess have relatively little upside heading into the rest of the game, but they are Royals, and so they can fit long-term on an King Arthur and/or Court Wizard-themed board. Mihri, King Lion is also likely to keep **Sleeping Princess**, as he would any Prince or Princess.

1 **Sleeping Princess**, provided she is given no Attack, is a useful unit for an unconventional Slay board called the "wall comp" that takes this to the extreme, having the only character with attack on the board have a Slay ability that they can repeatedly activate - because they are the only unit that attacks.

## Notes

* A three-card mix of **Sleeping Princess** and Awoken Princesses will result in an upgraded Awoken Princess.
* If Mixawizzle transforms another character into **Sleeping Princess** and then **Sleeping Princess** is transformed into Awoken Princess, she will not revert to the character she was originally, since she transformed.
* If an Evil Twin is cast on her (almost always done by playing Zippee the Zombee), it both transforms her, and creates a copy of the transformed Awoken Princess.

## History

 June 18, 2021 | Released in *Storybook Brawl's* Early Access launch.