Variable Big-headed Ant

Pheidole bicarinata

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).

Pheidole bicarinata

Photo: © Cole Shoemaker (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (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

Pheidole bicarinata, the Common Big-Headed Ant is a species of ant in the genus Pheidole. It is distributed across United States, from Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Utah and Nevada, east to New Jersey and Florida. It is found in a wide range of habitats.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Pheidole bicarinata, 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: 1,598 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 5 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 29
ATK 30
DEF 41

How they’re shared out:

Type: Insect: HP 32, ATK 39 and DEF 29 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,598 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.