Yellow Cardinal

Gubernatrix cristata

Birdstrong against fish, reptiles

Epic

Swoop

While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).

Gubernatrix cristata

Photo: Diego Carús (original photo) · CC0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Fish
Reptiles

Weak against

Mammals
Arachnids

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

The yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus, Gubernatrix.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Yellow cardinal, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Epic.

Observations: 651 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 48 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from145 points, the Epic budget

Every Epic card has 145 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 42
ATK 45
DEF 58

How they’re shared out:

Type: Bird: HP 33, ATK 31 and DEF 36 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 651 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size