Gulf Coast Tick
Amblyomma maculatum
Arachnidstrong against insects, birds
Common
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).
Amblyomma maculatum
Photo: © drnancyjackson (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick) is a species of tick in the genus Amblyomma. Immatures usually infest small mammals and birds that dwell on the ground; cotton rats may be particularly favored hosts. Some recorded hosts include:
Geothlypis trichas
Cardinalis cardinalis
Passerina ciris
Sialia sialis
Thryothorus ludovicianus
Troglodytes aedon
Zonotrichia albicollis
Dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
Dama dama
Human (Homo sapiens)
Eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana)
Odocoileus virginianus
Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)
Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus)
Hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)
Pig (Sus scrofa)
Sylvilagus palustris
In 2013, the infectious agent of American tick bite fever, Rickettsia parkeri was detected in a female A. maculatum collected at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, near Smyrna, Delaware, providing the first evidence of association of this pathogen of humans with this species of tick in the state.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Amblyomma maculatum, 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.
Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 28