Silvery Checkerspot

Chlosyne nycteis

Insectstrong against fungi, fish

Common

Swarm

While active with another insect in play, each of its attacks also hits the opposing bench for 10, without knocking them out (20 with two others).

Chlosyne nycteis

Photo: iNaturalist (original photo) · CC0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Fungi
Fish

Weak against

Amphibians
Arachnids

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

The species

Chlosyne nycteis, the silvery checkerspot, is a species of Nymphalinae butterfly that occurs in North America. In the United States, it is listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut and Maine, and is believed to be extirpated in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Chlosyne nycteis, 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: 22,805 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 250 mg
Diet: Herbivore

What it eats (GloBI)

Border privet
Butterfly milkweed
Aster puniceus
Conyza canadensis
Daucus carota
Doellingeria umbellata
and 23 more

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 21
DEF 39

How they’re shared out:

Type: Herbivorous insect: HP 44, ATK 27 and DEF 29 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 22,805 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size: About 250 mg: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.