Power: 2 | Speed: 4 | Rarity: Common | World Region: The Old Bark Forests
Origins: Bark Hound is the Speed anchor of Nature's Common tier – 2/4, armoured with dense bark coating, operating in the Old Bark Forests where the underbrush would slow most cards completely. The bark isn't just protection. It's what lets Bark Hound maintain 4 Speed through terrain that has no parallel running lane. Other cards slow down in the forest. Bark Hound uses it as a track.
Finishing Move: Root Dash: Sprints through root networks at full Speed – the bark-covered hide protects from any obstacle that would slow a softer card, and arrives at the target having cleared every intervening terrain feature without losing pace.
Synergy & Rivalry: The Speed contribution in Nature Commons. Earth's Dune Fox is its cross-terrain speed peer – two animals whose native environments are both difficult to run through, and who have developed parallel techniques for maintaining speed in obstacle-heavy terrain.
