During the reproduction phase, you may instead choose to buy a single amoeba of another player's in the same space as one of your own. Pay 2BP to the bank and 2BP to the player whose amoeba was assimilated. Set one of your color food on the amoeba you assimilated, instead of removing it from the board. If there's a magnetic amoeba to the south and the current is west, a non-magnetic amoeba moves one space south and one space west. If there's two magnetic amoebas to the east, one to the south, and the current is west, move two spaces east, one space south, and one space west.
Magnetic amoebas repel other magnetic amoebas in a similar fashion.
However, no two of your amoebas may eat as the same opposing player's amoebas do in the same turn. Your amoebas only excrete one block of your own color when they eat. Whenever one of your amoebas takes 1 point of damage all amoebas in the same square also take one point of damage. Bumper cost 4 mutation 5 When moving into a square you may bump an amoeba in that square one space in the same direction. Amoebas with tentacle can still take food.