King Rail

King Rail

Rallus elegans

Birdstrong against fish, reptiles

Uncommon

Swoop

While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).

36

37

42

Rallus elegans

Photo: © Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

• Fish
• Reptiles

Weak against

• Mammals
• Arachnids

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

The species

The king rail (Rallus elegans) is a large, mostly brown rail native to North America, where it breeds in marshes.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article King rail, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

1. LC
2. NT
3. VU
4. EN
5. CR
6. EX

Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Uncommon.

Observations

1,565 on iNaturalist

Adult mass

313 g

Diet

Omnivore

What it eats (GloBI)

• Echinochloa crus-galli
• Leersia oryzoides
• Oryza sativa
• Paspalum scrobiculatum
• and 14 more

Wikipedia ↗iNaturalist ↗

Where its stats come from115 points, the Uncommon budget

Every Uncommon card has 115 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

• HP 36
• ATK 37
• DEF 42

How they’re shared out:

Type

Bird: HP 33, ATK 31 and DEF 36 out of 100 to start.

Popularity

1,565 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.

Size

313 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.

Variation

A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.