Keel-necked firefly
Pyractomena ecostata
Insectstrong against fungi, fish
Epic
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).
Pyractomena ecostata
Photo: © Laura Gaudette (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
Pyractomena ecostata, the keel-necked firefly, is an endangered species of firefly in the beetle family Lampyridae.
It is endemic to the United States, where it has a disjunct distribution of two widely geographically separate regions; one in coastal regions around the Mobile Bay region of Alabama and east through most of peninsular Florida, and the other in saltmarshes surrounding Delaware Bay and Cape May in the states of Delaware and New Jersey. This distribution is likely real and not just a consequence of selective sampling, as it is a distinctive species and would be easily detected. P. ecostata may be a relict species with its distribution being a consequence of marine transgression following the end of the Last Glacial Maximum; prior to this, it may have had a much wider distribution along the Atlantic coast until sea level rise reduced its range to just two regions.
It is found in brackish habitats, especially those that receive some saltwater intrusion, including black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) marshland in Florida and the margins of coastal meadows in New Jersey; however, it has also been detected in wet pastures along highways in Florida, so saltwater intrusion is not necessary for its survival.
Abridged excerpt from the Wikipedia article Pyractomena ecostata, 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 60