Delta Smelt
Hypomesus transpacificus
Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids
Mythic
Counts as two fish: while active, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with another fish in play).
Hypomesus transpacificus
Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS (original photo) · public domain (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) is an endangered slender-bodied smelt, about 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) long, in the family Osmeridae. Endemic to the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary of California, it mainly inhabits the freshwater-saltwater mixing zone of the estuary, except during its spawning season, when it migrates upstream to fresh water following winter "first flush" flow events (around March to May). It functions as an indicator species for the overall health of the Delta's ecosystem. Delta Smelt are usually found at temperatures of less than 25 °C and prefer temperatures of around 20 °C. They are euryhaline but occur mostly at salinities of 0–7 practical salinity units.
Because of its one-year lifecycle and relatively low fecundity, it is very susceptible to changes in the environmental conditions of its native habitat. It is listed as a federally threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Efforts to protect the fish from further decline and extinction have focused on limiting or modifying the large-scale pumping activities of state and federal water projects at the southern end of the estuary, thereby limiting water available to farming. However, these efforts have not prevented the species from becoming functionally extinct in the wild.
Abridged excerpt from the Wikipedia article Delta smelt, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Mythic.
Every Mythic card has 160 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 71