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Exploding Fruitcake is an event zombie trick card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the PvZH Crazy IconCrazy class. It costs 2BrainPvZH to play, and its ability does 7 damage to a selected plant and Conjures a fruit card for the plant hero, unless the plant hero already has 10 cards in their hand.

It was introduced in update 1.18.13, alongside Transfiguration, Go-Nuts, Witch Hazel, Haunted Pumpking, Ketchup Mechanic, Fraidy Cat, Sneezing Zombie, Unexpected Gifts, and Frankentuar. It is now craftable as of update 1.24.6.

Origins[]

Fruitcake

It is based on a fruitcake, a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in alcohol.

Its name is a combination of "exploding," referring to its appearance and animation, and "fruitcake," the real-life object it is based on. Its description is a reference to how fruitcakes can also not contain real fruit.


Statistics[]

  • Class: Crazy
  • Tribes: Gourmet Party Trick
  • Abilities: Do 7 damage to a Plant. The Plant player Conjures a Fruit.
  • Set: Event

Card description[]

Once you get past all the dynamite and bombs, fruitcakes actually contain at least 5% Fruit.

Update history[]

Update 1.18.13[]

  • Added to the game.

Update 1.22.16[]

  • Ability change: Do 6 damage to a Plant → Do 7 damage to a Plant.

Update 1.24.6[]

  • Became craftable.

Strategies[]

With[]

This card can be seen as a much more cost-effective Cakesplosion, doing 7 damage for 2BrainPvZH as opposed to 4 damage for 4BrainPvZH. This makes it perfect for removing tough plants such as Wing-Nut and Transfiguration for a cheap cost. In fact, Exploding Fruitcake does enough damage to qualify as a hard removal card since the vast majority of plants vulnerable to tricks have just the amount of health or less.

And while this trick Conjures your opponent a Fruit card, this is rarely useful to the opponent meaning it does not hurt the card's usage nor it's viability in decks, so getting it is worth the cost.

You can also have a Quickdraw Con Man on the field to do some extra damage to the Plant Hero.

As this is a Gourmet Card, the Cheese Cutter can conjure it. Its low cost also makes it viable in Trick-based decks and rushes since the Crazy Class usually aims to take down their opponents as soon as possible, and Exploding Fruitcake helps to remove tanky threats.

With all this said, Exploding Fruitcake is an extremely effective and valuable card to put in practically any PvZH Crazy IconCrazy deck. Most decks in the competitive meta use it, so it is definitely worth crafting.

Against[]

There isn't much you can do against this card other than to keep your plants' health above 7, which can be hard to do in the beginning turns of the match when this trick can be played. You can also fill the field with many dangerous plants as this trick can only target one plant, one recommended strategy is with Three-Nut, as it is a very viable card and it can be used to fill the board with plants with good strength, and leaves the Zombie Hero struggling due to the single targeting of the trick. But even then, Crazy Heroes have Bungee Plumber and The Chickening to help taking out multiple plants.

Dark Matter Dragonfruit (which can be conjured by it) and Forget-Me-Nuts can also increase Exploding Fruitcake's cost to make it harder to be played. If you have multiple Dino-Roar plants on the field, some can get a boost triggered through the Conjure.

One card that Exploding Fruitcake cannot reliably remove is Veloci-Radish Hunter, as it makes two plants for 3 Sun, so the Zombie Hero would have to use two copies to fully destroy the card, which would leave them in Brain and Card disadvantage. If only one of the Veloci-Radish Hunters is removed, then the other one can get the Dino-Roar boost and do more damage.

A fact is that Water Chestnut is the only 2 cost or less card that can survive the trick as it has 8 health. However, with only one health, it will go down in literally any attack.

For easy reference, here is a list of plants Exploding Fruitcake can Conjure:

Gallery[]

In other languages[]

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language Name Description
United States of America English Exploding Fruitcake
China Simplified Chinese 爆炸水果蛋糕
Taiwan Traditional Chinese 水果蛋糕
France French Torréfruiction
Germany German Explodierender Obstkuchen
Italy Italian Torta di frutta esplosiva
Japan Japanese 爆発のフルーツケーキ
South Korea Korean 폭발 과일 케이크
Brazil Brazilian Portuguese Panetone Explosivo
Russia Russian Взрывной кекс
Spain Spanish Tarta de frutas explosiva


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