Live Oak Erineum Mite

Aceria mackiei

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).

Aceria mackiei

Photo: © Justin (original photo) · CC BY 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

Aceria mackiei, previously Eriophyes mackiei, the live oak erineum mite, is an abundant eriophyoid mite that produces leaf-blister galls on coast live oak, interior live oak, huckleberry oak, and canyon live oak. This mite's ability to induce galls in oaks of both the black oak group and the intermediate oak group is unique. The distribution of this arthropod is western North America.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Aceria mackiei, 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: 2,481 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 0.3 mg

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.