Acer platanoides
A shade-casting invader: a hardwood wall in either role, immune to Bind with a revive chance.
Norway Maple is a broadleaf tree, and it plays as a Broadleaf tree card. It is native to Europe, where it fights as a buffer, and invasive in Eastern North America, where it takes the attacker role.
None of its moves carries an initiative rider, so it never seizes first strike or an extra turn — its turn order is set by its tempo (see Stats).
Read off the card's actual trait schedule, it keeps these always-on traits, arriving at the levels shown:
It carries no certain trait keywords beyond the schedule above. It is not Moss Pole-eligible (it is not a climber). A Calcium/Magnesium amendment stacks even more DEF onto its wall; a Cloche protects an attacker from contact poison.
Read at level 40, where every move is unlocked: DEF 23, retreat 18 Sun. Its tempo splits the usual way — initiative 18 orders turn 1 and SPD 18 orders turn 2 onward — and it holds a fairly steady tempo across the fight.
Its two nativity roles read differently. Native, it is a buffer: HP 121 (a +15% cushion baked in) and a benched HP overshield for your active, with ATK 25. Invasive, it is an attacker: HP 106 and ATK 35 — the higher figure is the introduced-range term the engine adds for a spreading invader, showing as the card matures. The invasive form pays "Faustian" self-damage to its own bench on every damaging attack (10 + level - 1, growing as it levels) and concedes 2 prizes when knocked out.
Maturity hardens it into a wall: DEF climbs to 52 while HP grows to 233. Retreat rises to 37 Sun as it roots in, and its inverted tempo sinks to near its floor — the quick opening it had as a seedling fades to a crawl. A grown one is slow but immense.
Norway Maple is in the Competitor group on the succession wheel. It deals x1.5 to the Ruderal group (annual forbs, grasses, aquatics, bulbs) and takes x1.5 from Specialists (succulents, conifers, ferns, epiphytes), against which its own damage is resisted to x0.667.
A shade-casting invader: a hardwood wall in either role, immune to Bind with a revive chance. Durable and reliable, if unexciting. It is not edible, so any fertilizer you feed it banks x1.25 XP rather than coins. The Total power gallery below marks its crossover — the level where its rising bulk overtakes its falling speed — at level 1 at home and 3 abroad; either way it only grows stronger with level, so there is never a reason to under-level it.
Leveling trades speed for power. A plant’s tempo (SPD + INI, the turn-order edge) fades as it grows, while its power (HP + ATK + DEF, net of the rising Sun cost to retreat) climbs. The crossover is the level where power overtakes tempo: below it the plant is a fast skirmisher, above it a heavyweight. Shown for each stance this plant can actually hold — native adds a HP cushion, invasive an attack edge, neutral neither — with the card at its crossover and fully grown at Lv 100.