Microraptor

Microraptor is the middle rung of the green ladder

Microraptor sits on the green header, the bar the index uses from wave 1 through wave 9. Its header says DINO - WAVE 7, between Pegomastax at wave 6 and Dilophosaurus at wave 9. The pills read HP 55, DMG 9, SPD 21 and $11.

It is the middle of the green price ladder: $3 more than Pegomastax, $15 less than Dilophosaurus. It is not the fastest green card, because Compsognathus prints SPD 26, and it is not the hardest hitter. What the $11 buys is a second body before the wave 10 boss.

Green cards beside Microraptor

Pegomastax has the best damage per dollar of this group at 0.88, and Compsognathus has the highest SPD. Microraptor is second on damage per dollar at 0.82 and tied for the best HP per dollar with Pegomastax at 5.0. No column makes it the obvious pick, which is why it is a filler rather than a target.

Is Microraptor worth buying before wave 10?

Wave 10 is Titanhorn on the red boss header: HP 6K, DMG 90, SPD 3.5, $900. Microraptor's DMG 9 is a tenth of that DMG, and its price is $11 against $900. The card is not a boss answer. It is a cheap body placed while the waves are still green.

The header prints wave 7, which the index page treats as the unlock wave. If your cash is under $11 when wave 7 arrives, take Pegomastax at $8 instead. The two cards are $3 apart and neither one changes the Titanhorn fight.

Microraptor has no juvenile card

The index has four cards with Juvenile in the name: Juvenile Carnotaurus at wave 27, Juvenile Tyrannosaurus at 31, Juvenile Stegosaurus at 39 and Juvenile Spinosaurus at 52. None of them is a Microraptor, so there is no base and juvenile pair for this card.

The upgrade path is by header, not by level. Microraptor is followed by Dilophosaurus at wave 9, then the header turns blue at Oviraptor and Troodon on wave 12. The card carries no level field, so there is no level-up projection to run.