Xylobolus subpileatus

Fungusstrong against amphibians, reptiles

Common

Mycelium

While active with another fungus in play, it regains 5 HP at the start of your turn (8 with two others).

Xylobolus subpileatus

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

In battle

Strong against

Amphibians
Reptiles

Weak against

Mammals
Insects

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

The species

Xylobolus subpileatus is a species of crust fungus in the family Stereaceae first described in 1849 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis. The fungus forms tough, crust-like fruit bodies with somewhat flat to wavy caps that feature a dark zonate top and light underside, typically growing on fallen oak logs. It creates a distinctive honeycomb-like decay pattern by selectively degrading lignin in the wood, with fruiting bodies appearing more frequently as the wood advances through decay. Though widely distributed across North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, X. subpileatus is considered endangered in several European countries, where it is often confined to old-growth oak forests.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Xylobolus subpileatus, 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: 1,918 on iNaturalist

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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 38
ATK 33
DEF 29

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fungus: HP 36, ATK 34 and DEF 30 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,918 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.