“In the webs of fate, Tulah doesn’t struggle. She spins.”
Tulah the Spider Queen brings unique mechanics and powerful versatility to your party. Whether you’re healing under pressure, cursing enemies with Sanctify, or melting minds with Vanish-fueled spells, she thrives in roles few others can fill. This guide offers three builds that focus on her strengths; each sharpened by traits, perk paths, and card suggestions that will help you craft a deck worthy of her silk-threaded domain.
Big shoutout to @BinBin in Discord for teaming up with us on this hero guide! Their tips, feedback, and all-around brainpower helped bring this to life for the AtO community. If it saves your run or sparks a new build idea, make sure to show BinBin some love in the comments or over in Discord! 🔥
🧭 This guide also includes quick TL;DR beginner notes, as we wanted to support both new players and seasoned veterans. Visuals and combo examples are provided throughout.
⚙️ Perk Selection Basics
• Always take Energy.
• Use Speed if needed to adjust turn order.
• Choose extra perks based on team synergy! Regen, Vitality, or Buffer are great for support builds.
• Spend remaining points on Resistances, Max HP, Shards, or Gold.
🧡 Build 1: Healer Tulah
This build focuses on a minimal deck built around high-efficiency healing spells.. Rather than loading up on lots of healing cards, Tulah benefits from cycling a tight core of spells. Cards like Prayer of Healing become very effective when discounted by Omen of Peril and Holy Hatchery. Use vanishing low-cost cards like Clarity or Detoxify to further slim your deck while still supporting your team.
✅ Strengths:
• Leverages a small deck size for fast, repeated spell access.
• Prayer of Healing and Spark of Life scale well with Bless.
• Great adaptability when you need reliable healing and status cleanse tools.
🔧 Traits:
Holy Hatchery ➝ Temple Lurkers ➝ Cleansing Prayer ➝ Webweaver
🛠️ Perks:
• Core: Energy, Healing, Bless
• Further Support: Powerful, Regen, Vitality, Buffer
• As Needed: Speed, Resistances, Max HP, Shards, Gold
🃏 Core Cards:
Healing: Prayer of Healing, Flash Heal, Benediction, Spark of Life, Omen of Peril
Support / Dispel: Clarity, Detoxify, Dispel Magic, Delay Response, Healing Rain
Utility: Fanaticism, Expected Prophecy, Meditate, Demonic Tutor, Scry, Fortune Telling
🔄 Play Pattern
Begin by vanishing cheap support cards like Clarity or Detoxify to cycle quickly. Reach Prayer of Healing or Spark of Life, which should now cost less thanks to Holy Hatchery. From there, replay discounted cards over and over, while protecting your allies from debuffs and bleed.
📘 TL;DR Healer Tulah: Quick Beginner Tips
Small deck = consistent healing. Try to keep your deck below 20 cards!
• Omen of Peril makes healing spells cheaper each time you cycle your deck.
• Clarity and Detoxify are perfect vanish cards to help you further reduce your deck.
• Prayer of Healing heals everyone, and works great with Bless.
✝️ Build 2: Holy Priestess Tulah
This build turns Tulah into a Sanctify-focused damage dealer. Sanctify reduces enemy Holy resistance and heals allies. Tulah works best in teams that revolve around Holy Damage, as each charge of Sanctify increases everyone’s Holy Damage. She can apply Sanctify to heal up her allies while supporting her allies, or if you are looking for even more damage, she can combo with Fade to set up big AoE damage turns using Holy Storm.
✅ Strengths:
• Strong AoE burst damage with healing synergy
• Benefits from both support and DPS party setups
• Smooth transition between offense and utility roles
🔧 Traits:
Holy Hatchery ➝ Temple Lurkers ➝ Cleansing Prayer ➝ Webweaver
🛠️ Perks:
• Core: Energy, Holy Damage, Sanctify
• Further Damage: Powerful, Bless, Stealth
• Further Support: Buffer, Regen, Vitality
• As Needed: Speed, Resistances, Max HP, Shards, Gold
🃏 Core Cards:
Damage: Flash, Dawnlight, Holy Nova, Holy Storm, Radiant Assault
Further Damage: Fade (amplifies AoE), Inner Fire, Holy Smite
Support: Healing Rain, Delay Response, Dispel Magic, Anthem of Hope
Utility: Fanaticism, Meditate, Demonic Tutor
🔄 Play Pattern
Start by buffing Tulah with Energize, Inspire, or Bless. Then reduce their resistances with Sanctify before, setting up a Fade and unleashing powerful AoEs like Holy Storm or Holy Nova.. If played well, this build creates momentum that snowballs over time.
📘 TL;DR Holy Priestess Tulah: Quick Beginner Tips
Buff Tulah first, then go all in with Holy Storm.
• Fade makes your next spell much stronger, make sure to use it before big AoEs.
• Sanctify lowers the enemy’s Holy resistance and heals your team, so stack it with AoEs!
*Here's a before and after showing how damage scales with more stacks of Sanctify! 
🌀 Build 3: Deja Vu Tulah
In this build, Tulah sheds her healing silk for threads of madness. She becomes a Mind-based damage dealer, fueling her power through Vanish; a mechanic where cards disappear from your deck during combat. The core of this build is Deja Vu, a spell that grows stronger the more cards you’ve Vanished. Doing this successfully means that Tulah can unload bursts of Insane damage that tear through resistances and sanity alike.
✅ Strengths:
• High-scaling damage that ramps with each Vanish
• Applies Insane, weakening enemy resistances and output
• Can flex into hybrid damage or support roles as needed
• Plays well with draw-heavy and vanish-friendly items
🔧 Traits:
Premature Hatching ➝ Mental Scavengers ➝ Pendulum ➝ Webweaver
🛠️ Perks:
• Core: Energy, Mind Damage, Insane
• Further Damage: Powerful, Bless, Stealth
• Further Support: Buffer, Regen, Vitality
• As Needed: Speed, Resistances, Max HP, Shards, Gold
🃏 Core Cards:
Damage: Dawnlight, Mind Blast, Deja Vu, Spectral Missiles
Further Damage: Mind Twist, Clairvoyance, Foresight, Pandemonium
Support: Clarity, Detoxify, Delay Response, Dispel Magic
Utility: Fanaticism, Expected Prophecy, Meditate, Demonic Tutor
🔄 Play Pattern
Begin by flooding your Vanish pile with 0-cost or vanish-enabled cards like Clarity, Dawnlight, and Mind Blast. Use draw tools like Expected Prophecy to refill your hand and cycle again. Then cast Deja Vu for massive damage and Insane application. Clean up with Mind Twist or additional Mind spells.
📘 TL;DR Deja Vu Tulah: Quick Beginner Tips
• Deja Vu deals more damage for every Vanished card, so vanish early and often.
• Look for draw cards (like Expected Prophecy) to help you chain turns.
• Sanctify lowers the enemy’s Holy resistance and heals your team, so stack it with AoEs!
• Insane makes enemies take more Mind damage and reduces their output—stack it against bosses.
• Items that draw and vanish are especially powerful in this build (e.g., Fishing Rods, Mixed Salad).
*P.S.: This build was our capture artist's absolute favorite out of the three!
🧪 Final Thoughts
“The web doesn’t ask what you intend. It only holds or breaks. It’s up to you.”
Tulah isn’t defined by a role. She’s not just a healer, or a Sanctify spammer, or a Mind damage dealer. With the right deck, the right traits, and the right timing, she becomes the backbone of your run, whether it’s to keep you alive or be the sharpened edge of it.
You can choose to guide her threads toward restoration, revelation, or ruin and she’ll reward your precision.
🕸️ “Choose your thread. Then pull.”