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What do the border colours on trait cards mean, and must a species' diet match them?

The designer listed the colour meanings, and the second edition changed the older meanings.

  • domcrap · Designer · 2015-06-01
  • Chango · Community · 2015-06-01superseded
  • kalma · Community · 2015-09-11
  • runtsta · Community · 2015-09-11
  • runtsta · Community · 2025-02-23
  • Chango · Community · 2025-02-24

The colours sort the card rather than restricting it. Red traits help a Carnivore attack, grey or beige traits defend a species, green traits relate to food, and yellow traits relate to Population or other effects. Any species can hold any colour; a trait that does not apply simply does nothing, for example Foraging on a Carnivore.

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