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Nihoa Finch
Telespiza ultima
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Mythic
Leader · Swoop
Counts as two birds: while active, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with another bird in play).
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65
Wikapialpha version
Nihoa Finch
Telespiza ultima
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Mythic
Counts as two birds: while active, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with another bird in play).
Telespiza ultima
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (original photo) · public domain (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The Nīhoa finch (Telespiza ultima)(Hawaiian: palihoa) is one of the two endemic bird species of the tiny Hawaiian island of Nīhoa, the other being the Nīhoa millerbird. The island's population is 1000–3000 birds. The Nīhoa finch was added to the Endangered Species List by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on March 11, 1967. An attempt to protect the species against extinction was made by starting a colony on French Frigate Shoals, another leeward island. This would ensure its continued existence in case the Nīhoa population was wiped out. This attempt, however, failed. Nīhoa is part of a group of islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge which provides protected land for the Nīhoa finch to roam on. In August 2026, 49 Nīhoa finch were translocated to Kapou Island, also known as Lisianski Island/Papaʻāpoho, to establish an insurance population, the third single-island species translocation in the NW Hawaiian Islands after Laysan Finch and Nīhoa Millerbird.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Nīhoa finch, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Mythic.
Every Mythic card has 160 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 65