Vigilant Spotted Orbweaver

Neoscona vigilans

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).

Neoscona vigilans

Photo: © Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman (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

Neoscona vigilans is a species of orb-weaver spider in the genus Neoscona. It has a very wide distribution across sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and much of Asia from Iran and Pakistan to Japan and New Guinea.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Neoscona vigilans, 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: 1,487 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 300 mg

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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 40
ATK 34
DEF 26

How they’re shared out:

Type: Arachnid: HP 45, ATK 40 and DEF 15 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,487 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.