Finishing Move: The "Stair-Chill" – Drops the ambient temperature of a lane, slowing the next card that enters it.
Origins: Cryonix is a long-necked, frost-plated giraffe character that patrols the stairwells connecting the Ascendant's lower ducts to its main archive floor. It is an Approachable scout, its height giving it an early view of any push before heavier Ice cards arrive.