Dionaea muscipula
A carnivorous Weird-group biter whose Carnivory lifesteals about half its damage back — a self-healing wall when native, a self-sustaining attacker when invasive.
The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant, which puts it in the Weird succession group — off the type wheel entirely, so it neither deals nor takes a matchup multiplier. Its whole identity is one keyword, Carnivory: roughly half the damage it deals comes back to it as healing. As with every plant, its role is set by nativity. Native, it's a buffer (HP ×1.15, and benched natives project a green HP overshield onto whoever's active). Invasive, it's an attacker (ATK ×1.75, paid for with Faustian self-damage on every swing).
The flytrap runs the standard three-slot move kit: a starter attack at L1 (2 Sun), a free once-per-battle ability at L10 (0 Sun), and an advanced attack at L18 (6 Sun). Damage is round(dmg × ATK) − enemy DEF, floored at 1, and it drains the enemy overshield before base HP. Unlike the damage-capped spreaders (grass, vine, annual-forb, aquatic), the carnivorous advanced attack lands uncapped.
Every damaging attack carries Carnivory — the flytrap heals for about half the damage it lands. Native, the bites are modest but the lifesteal quietly keeps it topped up. Invasive, ×1.75 ATK means each bite hits far harder and heals far more, but it also triggers Faustian recoil: ~10 + level damage to its own lowest-HP benched ally, every damaging attack.
Carnivorous has no working passive — the lure is inert, so nothing fires at checkup. Unlike a conifer's Photosynthesis or a grass's Allelopathy, the flytrap gets no always-on effect. All of its value lives on its moves through Carnivory, and that's true in both roles.
Its certain keyword is Carnivory (guaranteed by family). It is not a climber (no Moss Pole) and isn't part of a Network, so cluster gear like Mulch does nothing for it. Useful field gear: Ca-Mg for +2 DEF (its photosynthesis bonus is wasted here), P for card XP, and Sulfur for spore immunity if you expect fern spore-chip. Native leans Ca-Mg to wall harder; invasive wants DEF and Sulfur — anything that keeps a fragile, self-taxing attacker on the field.
Sun caps at 120 and only regenerates out of battle; retreat costs 10 Sun. The overshield is up to 4 green HP + 2 gold Sun segments, but recoil, poison, and drain bypass it — so Faustian recoil to the bench, and any poison chip, land straight on HP.
| Native (buffer) | Invasive (attacker) | |
|---|---|---|
| ATK | baseline | ×1.75 |
| HP | ×1.15 + bench overshield | baseline |
| Cost | none | Faustian self-damage; bounty on KO |
Weird sits outside the wheel. The flytrap's bites are never super-effective and never resisted — ×1 into every group, and every group deals ×1 back. Its card shows neither a strong-vs nor a weak-vs. See weaknesses & resistances.
Native, play it as a durable pivot: the HP cushion, bench overshield, and lifesteal let it trade all day and heal the damage back. Invasive, it's a self-sustaining racer — ×1.75 bites that return ~half as healing can carry a fight, but Faustian recoil bleeds your bench, so keep a fodder ally alive and win before the tax catches up. Either way, no matchup swing: you win on raw numbers, not the wheel.