Alliaria petiolata
A perennial-herb Competitor: a cheap, resilient buffer in its native range and a nimble attacker where it invades.
Garlic Mustard is a perennial-herb card. Native across Europe and western Asia, it plays a scrappy buffer; throughout North American woodlands, where it is a widespread invader, it turns attacker. See nativity.
Standard perennial-herb kit — level-1 starter, level-10 free ability, level-18 advanced attack, uncapped damage. Native, its moves deal baseline power; invasive, they hit roughly 1.75× harder.
It carries Resprout: once per battle it survives a lethal hit at about 25% HP, giving you one guaranteed extra turn. See abilities.
No innate keyword; poison-rider/thorns-recoil apply only if flagged in the infobox. Its cheap 10-Sun retreat makes it flexible, so field gear that leans into its role fits well — durability gear as a native, offense as an invasive.
Low-to-moderate HP with level-scaling Def, light Sun cost, and a 10-Sun retreat. Native, the HP ×1.15 cushion plus bench HP overshield make it a surprisingly sturdy wall for its size; invasive, it takes the ATK spike and pays Faustian bench self-damage on each damaging attack.
Perennial-herb → Competitor group: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb), ×0.667 resisted by Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte).
A fine early-collection card. As an invasive attacker it clears wild plants for coins efficiently and swaps out cheaply if a bad matchup shows up; back it with a bench, since Faustian and the KO bounty punish reckless play. Garlic mustard is genuinely foraged as a spring green — but if your card reads edible, note that Pl@ntNet can misidentify, so never eat a plant on the strength of a scan alone.