Blackside Dace

Chrosomus cumberlandensis

Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids

Epic

School

While active with another fish in play, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with two others).

Chrosomus cumberlandensis

Photo: © Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Mammals
Arachnids

Weak against

Birds
Insects

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

The blackside dace (Chrosomus cumberlandensis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is endemic to the Cumberland River drainage in Kentucky and Tennessee as well as the Powell River drainage in Virginia in the United States. It is a federally listed threatened species.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Blackside dace, 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: 15 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 1.7 g
Diet: Omnivore

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from145 points, the Epic budget

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

HP 41
ATK 40
DEF 64

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.