Ability
Poison Tail. If the rival can't beat it and passes, they discard 1 more card.
The myth
From the edges of India she came, carried by the word of a Greek physician at the Persian court: martyaxwar, "man-eater." Ctesias described her with the body of the largest lion, burning cinnabar-red, and on those beastly shoulders a man's face with grey-blue eyes, three interlocking rows of teeth in each jaw, and a voice that was trumpet and flute at once. Behind her lashed a scorpion's tail, bristling with quills she shot like arrows and that grew back again; her venom killed everything that breathes, save the elephant. She was never a goddess nor the spawn of Titans, but something more unsettling: an animal that learned men recorded as real. Pausanias unmasked her centuries later — a tiger, he said, enlarged by fear — but it was too late: a copyist's error renamed her "manticore," and under that false name she has gone on hunting through the bestiaries for two thousand years.