Rubus armeniacus
A perennial-herb Competitor with Resprout — a thorny, thicket-forming survivor that walls or races by nativity.
Himalayan Blackberry is a perennial-herb card. Native to Armenia and the wider Caucasus of western Eurasia, it plays a buffer; across the Pacific Northwest of North America, plus parts of Europe and Australia, where it forms vast thorny thickets, it plays an attacker. See nativity.
Perennial-herb kit: level-1 starter, level-10 free ability, level-18 advanced attack, uncapped damage. Native power is baseline; invasive moves hit roughly 1.75× harder.
Resprout — once per battle it survives a lethal hit at ~25% HP. See abilities.
This bramble is fiercely thorny in the wild, but the game applies thorns-recoil only if the card carries the thorns trait in its infobox — verify there. No poison-rider unless flagged toxic. For field gear: defensive gear thickens the native wall; offensive gear sharpens the invasive spike.
Sturdy HP and level-scaling Def, light Sun, 10-Sun retreat. Native → HP ×1.15 cushion and bench HP overshield; invasive → ATK spike and Faustian bench self-damage per damaging attack.
Competitor group: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb); ×0.667 into Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte).
Resprout plus a cheap retreat makes it a resilient, flexible PvE attacker; if it carries thorns, the recoil adds free chip to every attacker that hits it. Keep a bench for the Faustian self-damage and KO bounty. Its fruit is widely foraged — but if your card is flagged edible, note that Pl@ntNet can misidentify, so never eat a plant on the basis of a scan alone.