Macedonian Crested Newt
Triturus macedonicus
Amphibianstrong against insects, arachnids
Rare
While active with another amphibian in play, any card that hits it loses 6 HP, without being knocked out (12 with two others).
Triturus macedonicus
Photo: © Benny Trapp (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.
Triturus macedonicus, the Macedonian crested newt, is a newt species of the crested newt species complex in genus Triturus, found in the Western Balkan peninsula (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, north-western Greece and south-western Bulgaria).
To the North, its range borders that of the Danube crested newt and the Northern crested newt and to the East, that of the Balkan crested newt.
It was first described as a variety of Triturus karelinii, later considered a subspecies of Triturus carnifex, and was elevated to species rank following molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2007.
Triturus arntzeni was considered a synonym of T. macedonicus, but this name applies in fact to a hybrid between this species and the Balkan-Anatolian crested newt (T. ivanbureschi), and thus is a synonym of both species.
Paedomorphosis in T.macedonicus is rare, but it does occur, as inticated by two surveys in Montenegro and Greece.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Triturus macedonicus, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.
Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 52