Blacktailed Icius Jumping Spider
Icius nigricaudus
Arachnidstrong against insects, birds
Epic
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).
Icius nigricaudus
Photo: © Robert Wienand (original photo) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
Icius nigricaudus, the Blacktailed Icius Jumping Spider, is a species of jumping spider in the genus Icius that lives in South Africa. It was first described in 2009 by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad. The spider is small, with a carapace measuring between 1.3 and 1.4 mm (0.05 and 0.06 in) long and an abdomen that is between 1.2 and 1.6 mm (0.05 and 0.06 in) in length. The female has a larger abdomen than the male, but otherwise they are similarly sized. The carapace is brown with a white stripe down the middle, the male also having white spots. The female abdomen is black with a white stripe. The male black and olive-yellow with white patches. The spider has distinctive copulatory organs. The male has a distinctive pedipalp with a tegulum with a low posterior node, a straight embolus, and hooked tibial apophysis, or appendage. The female has a simple epigyne with long and narrow seminal ducts.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Icius nigricaudus, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Epic.
Every Epic card has 145 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 42