Shiitake

Lentinula edodes

Fungusstrong against amphibians, reptiles

Common

Mycelium

While active with another fungus in play, it regains 5 HP at the start of your turn (8 with two others).

Lentinula edodes

Photo: © Scott Morris (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Amphibians
Reptiles

Weak against

Mammals
Insects

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

The species

The shiitake (Japanese: [ɕiꜜːtake] Chinese mushroom, black mushroom, Lentinula edodes or sometimes Lentinus edodes) is an edible mushroom native to East Asia and mainland Southeast Asia, which is cultivated and consumed around the globe. The earliest written records of their cultivation dates to 1209, during the Song dynasty in China.

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

No global status on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 1,482 on iNaturalist

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 38
ATK 33
DEF 29

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fungus: HP 36, ATK 34 and DEF 30 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,482 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.