Update history:Bloons Card Storm/Version 5.0

Version 5.0

Build №	1688
Steam	22 July 2025

◄◄ 4.0

◄ 4.4

6.0 ►►

5.1 ►

Version 5.0 is the second major update to Bloons Card Storm of 2025. It introduced Mountain Obyn, the Bloontonium Refinery map, more levels for players and Heroes, more cosmetic items, and Ranked seasons 5 and 6.

Additions

• Mountain Obyn
• Bloontonium Refinery
• Ranked seasons 5 and 6

Cards

Lead Storm Card Pack

Card	Class	Rarity
Armor Powered Bloon	Advanced Bloon	Super Rare
Blooming Bloon	Basic Bloon	Common
Defend the Breach!	Advanced Power	Rare
Defense Prep Bloon	Advanced Bloon	Super Rare
Extra Shot Bloon	Basic Bloon	Uncommon
Gwen's Choice	Basic Power	Common
Howl	Advanced Power	Rare
Offense Best Defense	Basic Power	Uncommon
Precursor Bloon	Basic Bloon	Uncommon
Push the Initiative	Basic Power	Uncommon
Robo Monkey	Magic Monkey	Super Rare
Salvation	Exotic Power	Rare
Stunning Shot	Basic Power	Common
Taunting Bloon	Basic Bloon	Super Rare
Zany Juice	Exotic Power	Common

Other

Card	Class	Rarity
Dire Wolf	Monkey	Common
Sentinel Bloon	Bloon	Uncommon

Cosmetics

• New cosmetic item categories:
  • Emotes
  • Platforms
  • Pets
  • Voice Packs
  • Master Hero Cards (unlocked by reaching level 15 with a Hero)

Card	Category
Mountain Obyn	Avatar
Ranked Season 5	Avatar
Ranked Season 6	Avatar
Mountain Obyn	Card Back
Mountain Obyn	Card Back
Ranked Season 5 Cardback	Card Back
Ranked Season 6 Cardback	Card Back
Crying Emote	Emote
Facepalm Emote	Emote
Grin Emote	Emote
Love Emote	Emote
Thumbs up Emote	Emote
Balfrog Pet	Pet
Lieutenant Lucky Pet	Pet
Magician's Rabbit Pet	Pet
Gwen Fire Platform	Platform
Quincy Expert Platform	Platform
Zee Jay Skate Ramp Platform	Platform
Good Game!	Text Emote
Good Luck!	Text Emote
Nice Play!	Text Emote
RNG!	Text Emote
Thank You!	Text Emote
Thinking	Text Emote
Waiting	Text Emote
What Happened?	Text Emote
Adora Voice Pack	Voice Pack
Obyn Voice Pack	Voice Pack
Quincy Voice Pack	Voice Pack

Feats

• I've got strategy, and a Bazooka!
• My Sentinels shall prevail
• Refined Skill
• Decorated Soldier
• First Taste
• Card Dabbler
• Collection Enthusiast
• Avid Collector
• I love free stuff
• Back for more
• A good week
• A great month
• Super rewarding
• Here for the long haul
• Dreadbloon Bruiser
• Dreadbloon Attacker
• Dreadbloon Damager
• Dreadbloon Master
• Dreadbloon Punisher
• Dreadbloon Crusher
• Dreadbloon Annihilator

Changes

Levels

• Player level cap raised from 50 to 60
• Hero level cap raised from 10 to 15

Mobile UI

• Zoomed in the camera on mobile user interfaces
• Position of the player's hand is lowered, and tapping the hand raises the cards

General UI

• Added animations of Bloons reducing delay naturally, plus a pause for the text "BLOONS ADVANCE" if there are Bloons that reduce delay after the player's turn ended
• Added a pause plus the text "BLOONS ATTACK!" if there are Bloons that are able to attack the opponent's Hero after the player's turn ends

• Further adjustments to Tutorial

• Added an "open next pack" option after opening a pack
• Heroes menu is revamped, and its sub-menu is moved from "Profile" to "Collection"
• Decks now have a magnifying glass button to show the full list of cards in one screen
• Profile screen updated to include more stats and add the location for emote selection
• "All Bloons with the same delay will more consistently rearrange in terms of placement order"

Opponent AI

“

Minor improvements to AI - a continuous living project! The AI will now actually “Pick” a card when it plays a card with the Pick keyword, rather than just taking the first one. The logic for targeting Bloons with the most threat has also been improved overall.

”

• Altered the algorithm of AI opponents
  • Will now logically choose a card after playing a Pick card, instead of always picking the first card
  • Adjusted logic for targeting Bloons "with the most threat"

Daily Challenge

•  Mulligan max amount increased ― 3 → 5 (undocumented)

Striker's Adventure

• Added new items and potions to Striker's Battleground
  • New Potions: Bloon Juice, Future Visions, Pocket Rocket
  • New Items: Call in Support, Barrel of Monkeys, Miner’s Axe
• Bloon Sniper will now actually pop a Bloon even if that Bloon was affected by an On Play heal/buff such as ZJ's Passive Enhancements or Ceramic Glazing Kiln.
• Golden Idol's buff now wears off after playing a Power card.

MOAB Eliminator

•  Now reloads if it destroys a Piñata Bloon (bug fix)

Draining Bloon

•  No longer generates Bloontonium a second time after draining all Bloontonium (bug fix)

Shields Down!

•  Now removes all Shield instead of being capped at 999 Shield (bug fix)

Try this!

•  Can now target Temporary Monkeys (bug fix)

Emboldened Bloon

•  Emboldened Bloon reduces Gold cost correctly when targeted by Setup Bloon (bug fix)

The Prestige

“

Resolved some issues with how the graveyard was recording Bloons and what The Prestige summoned. This should now work as intended (The Prestige will remove Bloons from the graveyard as they are summoned). — Update notes

”

•  Now removes Bloons from the graveyard as they are summoned (bug fix)

Nested Bloons

“

Changed functionality so that Bloons that summon other Bloons now correctly summon their Bloons if there is space after the summoning Bloon disappears (ie. Nested Bloon, Blooming Bloon). — Update notes

”

•  If the board is full, Bloons that summon other Bloons will now allow at least one offspring to summon if that parent disappears (bug fix)

Bloon summoning

•  Bloons that spawn at the end of a turn, such as Undead Bloons summoned by Necromancers or the children of attacking Nested Bloons, no longer decrement their delay on the same turn (undocumented)

Visual changes

• Doomed buildings now correctly show that they're Doomed (bug fix)
• Wolf now has a separate sitting idle animation when out of ammo (undocumented)
• Large Bloons now animate when receiving a buff
• Steady Growth Bloon now animates when its On Turn Start effect triggers (undocumented)
• Strengthenator's On Turn Start effect now add an animation when buffing Bloons (undocumented)
• "Fixed a bug that allowed Monkeys to place on top of each other under specific circumstances"

Text changes

• All card descriptions, Hero Ability descriptions, and map descriptions that used the term "Attack Power" now use the abbreviation "ATK" instead
• Added Temporary Ammo keyword to Orders Received, Bionic Boomerang, and Berserker Brew
• Gwendolin's Fireball: description changed ― "Set target Bloon on fire. Burning Bloons take 30 damage per turn" → "Set target Bloon on fire. Bloons that are on fire take 30 damage per turn"

Other

•  Mine Supervisor no longer counts Baby Monkeys and Transformed Monkeys as Miners (bug fix)
• Added slowdown SFX when playing Powerful Slowing Totem

Introduced bugs

•  Whoops is now exclusive to Obyn and Mountain Obyn (undocumented) (bug)

Gallery

• 
  2025 Roadmap of version 5.0 during the teasers for version 4.0
• 
  Version 5.0 Roadmap reveal

In-game description

• New Hero! Mountain Obyn arrives to crush the Bloons!
• New arena, Bloontonium Refinery.
• Emotes system. Friendly emotes to interact with your opponent.
• Cosmetics, including Hero Platforms and Pets.
• Extended Hero and Player levels.
• New cards for the Lead Storm set.

External links

• Official preview notes on Reddit
• Official update notes on Reddit