Western Tiger Salamander

Ambystoma mavortium

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).

Ambystoma mavortium

Photo: Ben Keen (original photo) · CC0 (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 barred tiger salamander or western tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium) is a species of mole salamander that lives in lower western Canada, the western United States and northern Mexico.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Barred tiger salamander, 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: 7,633 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 5 g

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Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

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

HP 35
ATK 28
DEF 37

How they’re shared out:

Type: Amphibian: HP 37, ATK 30 and DEF 33 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 7,633 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.