Acer platanoides
A broadleaf-tree Competitor — a bench-healing support engine at home, a heavy committed attacker where it invades.
Norway Maple is a broadleaf-tree card. Native to Europe and western Asia, it plays a bench-supporting buffer; across northeastern North America, where it shades out native seedlings, it plays a heavy attacker. See nativity.
Broadleaf-tree kit: level-1 starter, level-10 free ability, level-18 advanced attack, no damage cap. Native moves deal baseline power and support the team; invasive moves hit about 1.75× harder.
Two always-on abilities: Network (a Sun overshield to allies) and Mycorrhiza (per-turn bench healing). A strong engine card even when it never attacks.
No innate keyword; conditional poison-rider/thorns only if flagged. Its expensive retreat rewards staying in, so field gear that pays off over time fits — support/defensive as native, offensive as invasive.
High HP and level-scaling Def, a large Sun pool for Network, and a heavy 30-Sun retreat. Native → HP ×1.15 cushion and bench HP overshield; invasive → ATK spike with Faustian bench self-damage each damaging attack.
Broadleaf-tree → Competitor group: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb); ×0.667 into Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte).
Play it as a bench anchor: Network and Mycorrhiza keep a team of attackers alive, which is its highest-value use. As an invasive it is a tanky front-liner, but the 30-Sun retreat locks it in and a KO hands over a bounty, so it is better as a slow wall than a racer. One of the more useful team cards in this batch.