Fringed Ornamental Tarantula

Poecilotheria ornata

Arachnidstrong against insects, birds

Epic

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).

Poecilotheria ornata

Photo: © Christoph Moning (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

Poecilotheria ornata, known as the fringed ornamental or ornate tiger spider, is a large arboreal tarantula, which is endemic to Sri Lanka. Their legspan sometimes reaches 10 inches (25 cm) in females, and is probably the second largest of the genus, behind Poecilotheria rufilata.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Poecilotheria ornata, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Epic.

Observations: 62 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 15 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from145 points, the Epic budget

Every Epic card has 145 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 55
ATK 57
DEF 33

How they’re shared out:

Type: Arachnid: HP 45, ATK 40 and DEF 15 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 62 observations on iNaturalist: too few for extra HP.
Size: About 15 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.