Giant Broad-headed Treefrog

Osteocephalus taurinus

Amphibianstrong against insects, arachnids

Common

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).

Osteocephalus taurinus

Photo: © Manuel Vicente Miranda del Solar (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

The Manaus slender-legged tree frog (Osteocephalus taurinus), also known as the giant broad-headed tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, moist savanna, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is also reported to produce bufotenin.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Manaus slender-legged tree frog, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 2,437 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 50 g
Diet: Carnivore

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

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

HP 33
ATK 29
DEF 38

How they’re shared out:

Type: Amphibian: HP 37, ATK 30 and DEF 33 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 2,437 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size: 50 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.