Pseudotsuga menziesii
A sturdy conifer that opens fast for a tree, self-heals, and hits harder than most as an invader — one of the stronger cards in this group.
Douglas fir is a conifer — armored and durable. It is native across eastern and western North America and invasive in Africa and Europe, so it holds both roles: a wall at home, a hard-hitting attacker abroad. It is among the better cards in this batch: bulky, self-healing, and unusually quick off the mark for a tree.
Its opening attack, Raysteal (level 1), costs 2 Sun for 31 native / 35 invasive and heals a sliver: "Takes the light by force — strike and heal 10%." The ability Fire-Sealed Vault (level 25) does "Cones that only fire can open: +4 ATK and heal 20%." — a buff-and-heal. Its advanced attack, Resin Flood (level 40), costs 6 Sun for 24 / 27: "Floods the foe in resin until it sets — pinned, and weakened."
From level 10 it carries Xylem Tracheids — a flat reduction on incoming direct attacks (armor on top of its DEF, subtracted after the damage ratio). At level 68 it adds Serotinous Cones: when it is knocked out, it chips every living enemy on the way down, so it leaves a mark even when it falls. Below level 68 it has only the damage reduction.
No thorns, no toxin. As a canopy tree it is a Network carrier, lending a Sun overshield bar from the bench. Not a climber, so no Moss Pole. Between its DEF, its flat damage reduction, and its move self-heals, it is built to stay in and trade.
At level 40 it reads, native, HP 140 / ATK 23; invasive, HP 122 / ATK 32 — a solid attacker step. DEF is 21 and retreat 18 Sun. Its opening tempo is 40 — high for a conifer — while its sustained tempo is 25: it lands the first hit and then gets out-paced later in the fight, so use that opening. Invasive, it pays Faustian bench self-damage each attack and concedes 2 prizes on a knockout.
By the cap it becomes a wall: DEF 46 from wood density, native HP 276 / ATK 41 (invasive 240 / 64). Retreat rises to 38 Sun and its tempo sinks near floor — the quick opening of its youth fades, so it stops out-speeding anyone and simply out-tanks them. Maturing buys durability and staying power.
Douglas fir is a Specialist: ×1.5 into Competitors (perennial herbs, vines, shrubs, broadleaf trees), ×1.5 taken from Ruderals (annual forbs, grasses, aquatics, bulbs), even with fellow Specialists. Fast weeds and grasses are its worst matchup.
Native, it is a self-healing wall and a Sun-lending Network carrier. Invasive, it is one of the better single-player attackers in this group — durable, self-healing, and a threat even in defeat through its on-knockout chip. It is not edible, so fertilizer banks ×1.25 XP; feed it to level. Its bulk makes it power-favored from a low level (crossover near level 13), but it does keep a real turn-1 edge early — open with the first hit, then let the armor carry 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.