Maple Spindle Gall Mite

Vasates aceriscrumena

Arachnidstrong against insects, birds

Common

Venom

While active with another arachnid in play, its target loses 4 HP at the start of each of its turns, as long as it stays active (7 with two others).

Vasates aceriscrumena

Photo: © psweet (original photo) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Insects
Birds

Weak against

Amphibians
Fish

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

The species

Vasates aceriscrumena, the maple spindle-gall mite, is an eriophyid mite in the genus Vasates, which causes fusiform galls on the upper surfaces of the leaves of certain maple species in the eastern United States.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Vasates aceriscrumena, 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: 6,495 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 0.3 mg
Diet: Herbivore

What it eats (GloBI)

Acer saccharum
and 1 more

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

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

HP 50
ATK 22
DEF