Pyrus cordata
A fast, very heavily armoured Broadleaf tree card that cannot be pinned — but hits softly in either role.
Plymouth Pear is a Broadleaf tree card with both roles: native to Europe and invasive in eastern North America. That single invasive region means the attacker version is only slightly sharper than the native one. See nativity and categories.
The starter attack, Raysteal, unlocks at level 1 for 2 Sun, reading 29 native and 30 invasive. Takes the light by force — strike and heal 10%.
The free once-per-battle ability, Old-Growth Reaction, unlocks at level 25 and costs no Sun. Centuries of shade — the foe stalls and withers.
The advanced attack, Crown Shade, unlocks at level 40 for 6 Sun, reading 32 native and 33 invasive. Casts deep shade that saps the foe. A modest step up from the starter. See moves.
Buttress Roots arrives on the first riser at level 10 — an immunity to Bind rather than an armour bonus. Any Bind spent on this card is wasted. See statuses.
Mycorrhiza stacks on at level 68, healing a benched ally each checkup. It triggers roughly 60% of the time rather than every checkup.
The species record lists no toxicity and no trait keywords, so no poison rider applies. For field gear, the gap is damage output, not survivability — this card is already very hard to remove. Its growth habit is not vine, epiphyte or hemiepiphyte, so a Moss Pole does not apply.
At level 40 native reads 103 HP and 17 ATK; invasive reads 89 HP and 20 ATK. Both attack figures are low. Armour is 27, the highest reading in this batch. Retreat is 14 Sun. Opening tempo is 45 and sustained tempo is 44, both strong — a fast, extremely tough tree. Invasive it pays Faustian bench damage per damaging attack and concedes 2 prizes on knockout. See stats.
By level 100 native reaches 190 HP and 30 ATK, invasive 165 HP and 36 ATK, with armour at 63. The full tree wall. Retreat rises to 27 Sun and the inverted tempo bottoms out, so the matured card is slow, immovable, and still not hitting hard.
Broadleaf tree is Competitor: strong into Ruderal — annual forbs, grasses, aquatics and bulbs — and weak to Specialist, meaning succulents, conifers, ferns and epiphytes. See weaknesses and resistances.
A blocker, and a very good one. Top-tier armour, immunity to being pinned, and enough speed to act before most opponents. Park it in front of something valuable and it will hold for a long time.
What it will not do is win a game. Both attacks are soft and the invasive step barely registers, so treat it purely as the card that buys turns for your real threat. That is a legitimate job, but be clear that it is the job.
It is edible with a fruit economy group, so a phosphorus soil amendment pays it ×1.25 coins. See the battle lab.
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.