Saddled Tree frog

Taruga eques

Amphibianstrong against insects, arachnids

Epic

Toxic skin

While active with another amphibian in play, any card that hits it loses 6 HP, without being knocked out (12 with two others).

Taruga eques

Photo: © Vsevolod Rudyi (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Insects
Arachnids

Weak against

Reptiles
Fungi

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

The species

Taruga eques (common names: Günther's whipping frog, Spurred Tree-frog, Montane Hour-glass Tree-frog) is a species of tree frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the central hills of Sri Lanka.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Taruga eques, 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: 145 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 5.3 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 44
ATK 41
DEF 60

How they’re shared out:

Type: Amphibian: HP 37, ATK 30 and DEF 33 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 145 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.