Ailanthus altissima
A broadleaf-tree Competitor that supports the whole bench when native and turns into a heavy, expensive-to-retreat attacker when invasive.
Tree of Heaven is a broadleaf-tree card. Native to China and Taiwan, it plays a bench-supporting buffer; across North America, Europe and Australia, where it is one of the most aggressive urban invaders, it becomes a heavy attacker. See nativity for the split.
Broadleaf-tree kit: a level-1 starter attack, a free once-per-battle ability at level 10, and an advanced attack at level 18 — not damage-capped. As a native it deals baseline move power and plays support; as an invasive its damaging moves hit about 1.75× harder. A tree is slow to reposition, so it wants to stay in and swing.
Broadleaf-trees run two always-on abilities: Network, which projects a Sun overshield onto allies, and Mycorrhiza, which heals the bench each turn. Together they make this card the engine room of a team even when it is not attacking.
No innate combat keyword; apply a poison-rider or thorns-recoil only if the infobox flags toxic or thorns. Because its retreat is expensive, field gear that rewards staying put suits it — support/defensive gear as a native, offensive gear as an invasive.
Solid HP and level-scaling Def, a larger Sun pool to feed Network, and a heavy 30-Sun retreat — it commits to the field. Native, it gains the HP ×1.15 cushion and its bench projects an HP overshield; invasive, it swaps that for the ATK spike and Faustian self-damage to its own bench each damaging attack.
Broadleaf-tree is a Competitor group card: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb), resisted to ×0.667 by Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte); neutral otherwise.
This is a team card first. Native, park it on the bench so Network and Mycorrhiza keep your attackers topped up. Invasive, it is a durable front-line hitter, but the 30-Sun retreat means you cannot cheaply pull it once committed, and a KO hands the opponent a bounty. Best used as a slow anchor rather than a racer.