Thorns inelegant

[Phillip]

Inelegant is a good word. It is the only hidden status in he game. Everything else is visible. There are no hidden buffs like increased attack/defense power since it would take away from the simplicity.

Especially troublesome, since that is the main way to remove the thorns efficiently. If you can't tell where they begin, you spend the entire game hacking at branches, wasting wits on things that only cost one to spawn.