Seedling is a basic common plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the 
Kabloom class. It costs 2
to play and has 2
.
It does not have any traits, and its ability transforms it into a random plant that costs 6 or less at the start of the next turn. Its closest zombie counterpart is Mystery Egg.
Origins
It is based on a seedling, a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.
Its description references its ability to turn into a random plant.
Statistics
- Class: Kabloom
- Tribe: Seed Plant
- Traits: None
- Ability: Start of Turn: This transforms into a random Plant that costs 6 or less.
- Set - Rarity: Basic - Common
Card description
It's the tiny seed of a... nobody actually knows.
Update history
Update 1.2.11
- Plants transformed from Seedling now activate their "When played" abilities if they have one.
Update 1.60.79
- ▲ Health change: 1 → 2
Strategies
With
Using Seedling is a slightly risky move, as even though it has the ability to transform into powerful plants like Dandy Lion King or Three-Headed Chomper, it can also transform into a plant that doesn't work with your deck, like The Podfather in a non-pea based deck, a weak or useless plant like Peashooter, or even into itself.
Make sure to protect Seedling while it is on the field with plants that have the Team-Up trait, such as Shellery, since if taken out by a zombie, Seedling will not be able to transform into anything, wasting 2 sun and a potential free plant. You can also play it in Force Field to make it invulnerable to damage, practically guaranteeing its transformation (barring methods of destruction such as Locust Swarm or Primordial Cheese Shover. However, only Spudow can do this naturally, and by the time Force Field is an option, there are many other strong plays you could make.
If possible, play this card in the earlier turns, as less dangerous zombie fighters will appear due to the low number of brains the zombie hero may have, especially if the zombie hero has 0 brains and if any of the lanes are freely open. However, the player will still need to rely on luck on whether it will survive, as a zombie trick can easily destroy this.
The player can use tricks such as Fertilize to increase the health of Seedling, however, stat boosts will not affect the plant it transforms into. Therefore, boosting tricks are not recommended, even if necessary, as the boost will be lost when it transforms. Instead, environments are a better idea. For example, Captain Combustible can play The Red Plant-It so that Seedling will gain a boost, which will still apply for the plant it transforms into since environments affect all plants in it.
Very rarely, Seedling may transform into Brainana. If that happens, your opponent will lose all their brains immediately at the start of the turn. In that case, you should apply maximum pressure against your opponent as their ways of recovering damage suffered are extremely limited, giving you a chance to greatly weaken their defenses. However, keep in mind that cards which cost 0
can still be played, whether thanks to its base cost (like Swabbie) or the help of other cards (like Flag Zombie), and there are also cards that can give brains back, such as Gentleman Zombie.
Seedling also synergizes well with cards that require you to play plants for their ability to activate. Muscle Sprout can be potentially boosted twice, however only Captain Combustible can primarily do this. It can also be used with Astro-Shroom to deal 2 Bullseye damage for each Seedling on the field, assuming they are allowed to transform. Seedling can also be played in Pair Pearadise to potentially activate its ability twice, or at least have two copies of a plant if one of them survives.
Usually, the AI in single player missions will never target this with zombies or tricks unless it blocks the way for a zombie, so playing Seedling may be a good idea to possibly get a strong plant.
Seedling can transform into any plant that costs 6 or less, excluding Superpowers. Here is the list of plants it cannot transform into:
There are 203 possible Seedling transformations.
Against
Due to Seedling's low health, you can simply use any low-cost zombie to destroy it, or cheap tricks such as Bungee Plumber or Rolling Stone. Take advantage of its low health with 
Frenzy zombies, such as Smashing Gargantuar, since they should be able to destroy the Seedling in one attack, which allows them to attack again, damaging anything behind it, and stat-degraders like Nibble or Acid Rain.
If you do not know when will it be played, simply use tricks that spawn zombies like Beam Me Up or Summoning, direct damage cards such as Conga Zombie, or moving cards like Sumo Wrestler or Terrify.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Seedling.
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In other languages
Please note that only official translations are used.
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Name |
Description
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 English
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Seedling
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 Simplified Chinese
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小种子
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lit. "Seedling"
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 Traditional Chinese
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植物苗
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lit. "Plant Sapling"
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 French
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Jeune pousse
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"Young sprout"
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 German
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Setzling
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"Seedling"
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 Italian
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Piantina
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"Seedling"
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 Japanese
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種っ子
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 Korean
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묘목
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"Sapling"
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Sementinha
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"Seedling"
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 Russian
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Рассада
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"Seedling"
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 Spanish
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Semilla
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"Seed"
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Trivia
- A Seedling can turn into another Seedling as it costs less than 6 sun.
- Prior to update 1.12.16, viewing Seedling's stats during the "Fight!" phase would allow the player to see what it is transforming into, before it begins its animation to do so.
- In AI battles, a player can tell whether or not something is going to be done to Seedling by tapping it and seeing if it transforms into a plant or not. If Seedling does not show what plant it transforms to, this means that Seedling is bound to be destroyed.
- If it transforms into a plant with a "When played" ability, one will only see the end of the ability animation as the ability's animation will start before the Seedling has completed the transformation, causing the beginning to become hidden by Seedling's transformation animation.
- It, Mirror-Nut, and Sweet Potato all fire off the same projectile when attacking (a rainbow beam).
- Formerly, its attack was firing a shockwave, in similarity to the one in Dandy Lion King's attack and that of many other cards.
See also
Kabloom
Mega-Grow
Smarty
Solar