Cricket-bat Orbweaver

Mangora acalypha

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).

Mangora acalypha

Photo: © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoliy Ozernoy (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

Mangora acalypha, also known by its common name cricket-bat orbweaver, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae, found throughout the Palearctic realm. This species was originally described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 as Aranea acalypha.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Mangora acalypha, 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: 16,752 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 300 mg
Diet: Carnivore

What it eats (GloBI)

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

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

HP 40
ATK 33
DEF 27

How they’re shared out:

Type: Arachnid: HP 45, ATK 40 and DEF 15 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 16,752 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size: About 300 mg: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.