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Rocket Science is a premium super-rare zombie trick card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the 
Brainy class.
It costs 3
to play, and its ability instantly destroys a selected plant with 4
or more. Its plant counterpart is Shamrocket.
Origins
It is based on a rocket, a missile, spacecraft, aircraft, or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
Its name and description are a play on the phrase and common idiom, "It's not rocket science," meaning that something is not as hard as rocket science, the primary field of aircraft and spacecraft more properly called aerospace engineering, which is generally considered to be very complicated.
Statistics
- Class: Brainy
- Tribes: Science Barrel Trick
- Ability: Destroy a Plant that has 4 or more.
- Set - Rarity: Premium - Super-Rare
Card description
Turns out, it IS rocket science.
Update history
Update 1.2.11
- Set - Rarity change: Basic - Common → Premium - Uncommon
Update 1.10.22
- New sound effects when Rocket Science is played.
Update 1.10.23
- New ability animation when Rocket Science is played.
Update 1.14.13
- Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare
Update 1.16.10
- Rarity change: Rare → Super-Rare
Update 1.30.4
Strategies
With
Rocket Science is exactly what it says on the tin - it's good at removing high-strength Plants. Nearly every Plant deck runs rocket targets, such as Pepper M.D., Cob Cannon, Tricarrotops, Muscle Sprout, Bananasaurus Rex, Jelly Bean, strength-boosting cards in general, etc. This means it invariably finds its way into many control decks, as it's unlikely to brick when most Plant decks will play multiple targets per game. However, aggro and occasionally even midrange decks can struggle to fit Rocket Science, since it's expensive and only destroys 1 Plant, so a more high-tempo play might be preferable. It's mostly seen on Rustbolt and Immorticia for 2 reasons; firstly, they tend to favor control decks, which easily benefit the most from Rocket Science, and secondly, they lack better heavy removal; while Professor Brainstorm usually has all the heavy removal he needs with Exploding Fruitcake, and Huge-Gigantacus and Super Brainz often prefer Backyard Bounce as it gets rid of stats on snowball cards like Pepper M.D. while also being able to unblock even against low-strength plants, all Immorticia has is the terrible Locust Swarm and Rustbolt doesn't even have that, so those two heroes will often end up running as many as 4 copies of Rocket Science.
Overall, Rocket Science is a solid Trick that should be considered in control, or in decks which struggle to get rid of Plant tempo when no better options are available.
Against
Relying on only a few high-strength plants when playing against a Brainy hero is very risky, as they can play Rocket Science to destroy one and put you in a bad situation. The only sure way to combat Rocket Science is to use 
Untrickable cards like Umbrella Leaf (however, it is vulnerable to tricks and will be likely taken out quickly due to the ability hindering the zombie hero greatly) and Apotatosaurus.
If you don't have such cards, try to get the most out of a hard-hitting plant by making it do bonus attacks, use fighters with 3 strength or less, or get many high-strength plants out on the field and force the zombie hero into a dilemma with distribution.
Gallery
Rocket Science's statistics
Rocket Science's card image
Rocket Science being played (1)
Rocket Science being played (2)
Old
Rocket Science's statistics before update 1.30.4
Rocket Science's statistics
Rocket Science's statistics before update 1.14.13
Rocket Science's silhouette
Rocket Science's silhouette
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Premium Pack
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Premium Pack before update 1.6.27
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Basic Pack before update 1.2.11
The player having the choice between Chimney Sweep or Rocket Science as the prize for completing a level before update 1.2.11
Rocket Science being played
In other languages
Please note that only official translations are used.
| Language |
Name |
Description
|
 English
|
Rocket Science
|
|
 Simplified Chinese
|
火箭发射
|
|
| Traditional Chinese
|
火箭科學
|
|
 French
|
Physique-chimie
|
|
 German
|
Raketenwissenschaft
|
|
 Italian
|
Scienza missilistica
|
|
 Japanese
|
ロケット
|
|
 Korean
|
로켓 공학
|
|
 Brazilian Portuguese
|
Ciência Espacial
|
|
 Russian
|
Китайская грамота
|
|
 Spanish
|
Ciencia aeronáutica
|
|
Trivia
- A rocket similar to this one is found in Wall-Knight's and Z-Mech's comic strip.
- The face on the rocket is the same as the face on Kite Flyer's kite, Rolling Stone, Balloon Zombie's balloon, and Toxic Waste Imp's barrel.
- It had the most rarity changes out of all cards in the entire game, from Common to Uncommon, then to Rare, and finally to Super-Rare.
- The Simplified Chinese translation of the description is entirely different. It reads: "Nobody knows how could this rocket strike its target". Additionally, the name is translated to "Rocket Launch".
See also
Brainy
Crazy
Hearty
Sneaky