Devils River Minnow

Dionda diaboli

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).

Dionda diaboli

Photo: Hagerty, Ryan/USFWS (original photo) · public domain (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 Devils River minnow (Dionda diaboli) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. The minnow coexists with other closely related species and other cyprinids in the range of northern Mexico and southern Texas.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Devils River minnow, 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: 7 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 593 mg

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from145 points, the Epic budget

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

HP 39
ATK 38
DEF 68

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 7 observations on iNaturalist: too few for extra HP.