Sunflower Seed

Sunflower Seed
Statistics
Strength	2
Health	2
Cost	3
Set	Colossal
Rarity	Super-Rare
Class
Tribe	Flower Seed Plant
Traits	None
Abilities	When destroyed: Make a Sunflower here.
From every night's end comes the beginning of a new Sunflower's dawn.

Sunflower Seed is a colossal super-rare plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Solar class. They cost 3 to play and have 2/2. They do not have any traits, and their ability makes a Sunflower on their place when they are destroyed.

Origins

They are based on the seed in real life with the same name.

Their description is a reference to their ability.

Statistics

• Class: Solar
• Tribes: Flower Seed Plant
• Traits: None
• Ability: When destroyed: Make a here.
• Set - Rarity: Colossal - Super-Rare

Card description

From every night's end comes the beginning of a new Sunflower's dawn.

Update history

Update 1.22.12

• Added to the game.

Update 1.24.6

• ▼ Health change: 2 → 1
• Description change: Was originally "Mommy, where do little Sunflowers come from?"

Update 1.30.4

• ▼ Strength change: 3 → 2
• ▲ Health change: 1 → 2

Strategies

With

Sunflower Seed is a below-average plant for their cost, having 2/2. Offensively, Sunflower Seed has no notable traits or abilities and can simply be used as a 2 fighter.

While that is disappointing for a super-rare card, their ability makes them more useful. When destroyed, Sunflower Seed will make a Sunflower here, which guarantees you an additional +1 the next turn, unless they are confronted by a Frenzy zombie, who can destroy the Sunflower made as well before the start of the next turn. This leaves your opponent with a small dilemma: destroy Sunflower Seed and give you a sun advantage, or keep getting hit for 2 damage with the risk of them being boosted.

Since Sunflower Seed is a flower, they work well with Briar Rose to completely destroy their attacker and leave a Sunflower behind (which is also a flower), and also with Power Flower since the number of flowers will stay the same even if they are destroyed. However, beware of zombie tricks, because no zombie hero will ever be unaware of the Briar Rose on the field.

Sunflower Seed can also activate Muscle Sprout and Astro-Shroom's abilities as well. One when Sunflower Seed is played, the other when it makes a Sunflower once destroyed, making it activate their abilities twice. And because Sunflower Seed makes a Sunflower when it is destroyed, Go-Nuts will activate their ability, boosting strength for all Team-Up plants. Note that only Chompzilla, Solar Flare and Rose can take advantage of this respectively.

Against

Sunflower Seed, while not a major threat, is a moderate inconvenience. Destroying Sunflower Seed is a minor conundrum as they give your opponent a Sunflower, which will give them an advantage the following turn.

A way to get around Sunflower Seed's ability is to use a zombie with Frenzy, which will destroy both Sunflower Seed and Sunflower, as well as land a direct strike on your opponent. Vimpire and Ancient Vimpire are especially good examples, as they will get a total of +4/+4.

Alternatively, tricks can be played to destroy Sunflower Seed and force the Sunflower they make to become more vulnerable. A Beastly hero can play Total Eclipse to weaken a Sunflower Seed and ensure that the Sunflower does not survive if the seed is destroyed.

Gallery

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  Sunflower Seed's statistics

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  Sunflower Seed's card

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  Sunflower Seed's grayed out card

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  Sunflower Seed's card image

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  HD Sunflower Seed

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  Sunflower Seed's sprites

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  Sunflower Seed being played

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  Sunflower Seed on the field

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  Sunflower Seed attacking

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  Sunflower Seed hurt

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  Sunflower Seed activating their ability (1)

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  Sunflower Seed activating their ability (2)

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  Being played (animated)

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  Idle (animated)

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  Activating ability (animated)

Old

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  Sunflower Seed's statistics

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  Sunflower Seed's statistics

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  Sunflower Seed's card

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  Sunflower Seed's card

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  Sunflower Seed unlocked

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  Sunflower Seed attacking

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  Sunflower Seed activating their ability

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  Sunflower Seed with the Strikethrough and Untrickable traits

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  Sunflower Seed Fused with Pumpkin Shell

Concepts (Scrapped concept)

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  Unused destroyed animation (animated)

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sunflower Seed
Simplified Chinese	向日葵种子	"Sunflower Seed"
Traditional Chinese	向日葵種子
French	Graine de tournesol	"Sunflower Seed', lit. "Seed of Sunflower"
German	Sonnenblumenkern	"Sunflower Kernel"
Italian	Seme di girasole	"Sunflower Seed', lit. "Seed of Sunflower"
Japanese	サンフラワーの種	"Sunflower Seed", "Sunflower" is transliterated
Korean	해바라기 씨	"Sunflower Seed"
Brazilian Portuguese	Semente de Girassol	"Sunflower Seed', lit. "Seed of Sunflower"
Russian	Зерно Подсолнуха	"Sunflower Seed"
Spanish	Semilla de Girasol	"Sunflower Seed', lit. "Seed of Sunflower"

Trivia

• The unused "When Destroyed" animation may imply that Sunflower Seed didn't have its current ability when initially designed, or it is made for when its ability failed to activate.
  • This is further hinted at by how the ability animation for it seems to have been made to loop, which wouldn't make much sense considering it only plays when Sunflower Seed is destroyed.
• Their old description was a reference to how kids usually ask their parents where they came from.
  • Their old description was also similar to Mystery Egg's current description and Graveyard's old description.
• This card was drawn and animated by Dominic Sodano.

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