Hell ant (amber) is a 4-star fossil card from the Iron Age. Hell ants were Cretaceous ants with jaws that swung upwards, unlike any living ant.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +20% first-strike damage |
| Uncommon | 2 | +36% first-strike damage |
| Rare | 5 | +60% first-strike damage |
| Epic | 10 | +90% first-strike damage |
| Legendary | 20 | +140% first-strike damage |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Hell ants (Haidomyrmecinae) are known from amber, especially from Myanmar.
- Uncommon: They lived about 100 million years ago.
- Rare: Their jaws pointed up and snapped towards a horn-like head.
- Epic: Some species had a metal-like reinforced horn.
- Legendary: They died out long ago and left no living relatives.
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Field guide
| Size | Unknown |
| Colony | Unknown |
| Queens | Unknown |
| Nest | Unknown |
| Diet | Predators of other insects; some may have drunk their prey's body fluids |
| Defence | Unknown |
| Active | Unknown |
| Lifespan | Unknown |
| Where it lives | Known from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, northern Myanmar, plus a few other amber sites |
Did you know?
- About 16 species are known, and their group lasted nearly 20 million years.
- One amber piece shows a hell ant holding a cockroach relative's young, about 99 million years ago.
- Long horns evolved twice within the group.
Sources: sci.news