Lead Casing

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'''Lead Casing''' is an [[Power (BCS)|Advanced Power]] [[card]] in ''[[Bloons Card Storm]]'', introduced in {{BCS version|4.0}}. It increases a target [[Bloon (BCS)|Bloon]]'s [[Armor]] by 20.

'''Lead Casing''' is an [[Power (BCS)|Advanced Power]] [[card]] in ''[[Bloons Card Storm]]'', introduced in {{BCS version|4.0}}. It increases a target [[Bloon (BCS)|Bloon]]'s [[Armor]] by 25.

The card artwork depicts a [[Blue Bloon]] being operated by many robotic arms carrying pieces of Lead plates towards the Bloon. The location is set at an industry line in a factory.

==Tips==

*Lead Casing is an expensive ~~investment that becomes useless~~ if the opponent ~~has a~~ Bloon ~~remover~~ (e.g. [[Return to Sender]], [[Extreme Heat]], and [[Bloon Master Alchemist (BCS)|Bloon Master Alchemist]]) ~~or [[Armor Piercing]]. If they don't, you can force the opponent to give in to the Bloon~~.

*The main use of Lead Casing is stacking Armor on existing Bloons for an expensive cost. However, every other Armor-building card is simply more dependable, even though the alternatives are more effective with groups of Bloons instead of a single Bloon.

**Lead Casing is a ~~bad choice against human opponents. Most~~ competent ~~opponents would have at least some~~ of ~~those cards, or deal~~ high damage ~~via things like~~ [[Sniper Monkey (BCS)|Sniper Monkey]] or [[~~Long Range Rang~~]] ~~before enough Armor is stacked to make it non-poppable.~~

*The strength of this card mostly depends if the opponent lacks anything to pop down the target before enough Armor gets stacked. This card is very easy to brick the hand for the investment required, being unviable in Aggro, and is hard-countered by [[Armor Piercing]] and Bloon removers (e.g. [[Return to Sender]], [[Extreme Heat]], and [[Bloon Master Alchemist (BCS)|Bloon Master Alchemist]]).

*[[Mass Lead Production]] can give all of ~~your Bloons 15~~ Armor ~~for half the cost, making it almost always a better choice in any deck~~ that ~~you'd run~~ Lead Casing ~~in. Likewise, [[Lead Coating Bloon]] for 1 less Gold~~ can ~~pile up Armor gradually but give Bloontonium too.~~

*Most human players avoid Lead Casing. Not only are there a wide variety of hard counters to it, any competent Tempo deck has so many methods of dealing high damage (e.g. [[Sniper Monkey (BCS)|Sniper Monkey]], [[Super Monkey Storm (BCS)|Super Monkey Storm]]) that exceeds the amount of Armor that Lead Casing can provide.

*This card's cost and two charges makes it very easy to brick with.

==Update history==

==Development==

This set of buffs is aimed to make it significantly more viable for human players to run as a protecting card without making it too expensive to the point of unusability.<ref name="odysseyTOS-6.4">{{cite|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5RCsiqq--s|title=6.4 Tester Commentary - Bloons Card Storm|publisher=YouTube|author=OdysseyTOS}}</ref>

==Gallery==

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-'''Lead Casing''' is an [[Power (BCS)|Advanced Power]] [[card]] in ''[[Bloons Card Storm]]'', introduced in {{BCS version|4.0}}. It increases a target [[Bloon (BCS)|Bloon]]'s [[Armor]] by 20.
+'''Lead Casing''' is an [[Power (BCS)|Advanced Power]] [[card]] in ''[[Bloons Card Storm]]'', introduced in {{BCS version|4.0}}. It increases a target [[Bloon (BCS)|Bloon]]'s [[Armor]] by 25.
 The card artwork depicts a [[Blue Bloon]] being operated by many robotic arms carrying pieces of Lead plates towards the Bloon. The location is set at an industry line in a factory.
 ==Tips==
+{{outdated|reevalaute post-6.4 due to cost reduction}}
 {{BCS last updated|6.2|section=y}}
-*Lead Casing is an expensive investment that becomes useless if the opponent has a Bloon remover (e.g. [[Return to Sender]], [[Extreme Heat]], and [[Bloon Master Alchemist (BCS)|Bloon Master Alchemist]]) or [[Armor Piercing]]. If they don't, you can force the opponent to give in to the Bloon.
+*The main use of Lead Casing is stacking Armor on existing Bloons for an expensive cost. However, every other Armor-building card is simply more dependable, even though the alternatives are more effective with groups of Bloons instead of a single Bloon.
-**Lead Casing is a bad choice against human opponents. Most competent opponents would have at least some of those cards, or deal high damage via things like [[Sniper Monkey (BCS)|Sniper Monkey]] or [[Long Range Rang]] before enough Armor is stacked to make it non-poppable.
+*The strength of this card mostly depends if the opponent lacks anything to pop down the target before enough Armor gets stacked. This card is very easy to brick the hand for the investment required, being unviable in Aggro, and is hard-countered by [[Armor Piercing]] and Bloon removers (e.g. [[Return to Sender]], [[Extreme Heat]], and [[Bloon Master Alchemist (BCS)|Bloon Master Alchemist]]).
-*[[Mass Lead Production]] can give all of your Bloons 15 Armor for half the cost, making it almost always a better choice in any deck that you'd run Lead Casing in. Likewise, [[Lead Coating Bloon]] for 1 less Gold can pile up Armor gradually but give Bloontonium too.
+*Most human players avoid Lead Casing. Not only are there a wide variety of hard counters to it, any competent Tempo deck has so many methods of dealing high damage (e.g. [[Sniper Monkey (BCS)|Sniper Monkey]], [[Super Monkey Storm (BCS)|Super Monkey Storm]]) that exceeds the amount of Armor that Lead Casing can provide.
-*This card's cost and two charges makes it very easy to brick with.
 ==Update history==
 {{BCS change list by name|Lead Casing}}
+==Development==
+This set of buffs is aimed to make it significantly more viable for human players<!--"human", as Dreadbloon always runs this card to some success, albeit cheesable due to some dreadbloon brainfarts--> to run as a protecting card without making it too expensive to the point of unusability.<ref name="odysseyTOS-6.4">{{cite|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5RCsiqq--s|title=6.4 Tester Commentary - Bloons Card Storm|publisher=YouTube|author=OdysseyTOS}}</ref>
 ==Gallery==

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