Bloons Card Storm glossary: Difference between revisions

:A friendly Monkey in the space directly next to a Monkey on its left or right side (as in [[Monkey Village (BCS)|Monkey Village]] or [[Radar Scanner Village]]).

:The amount of damage a Monkey deals with its attack to a Bloon. Originally referred to as "Attack Power" or "AP", but was renamed in {{BCS version|4.4}} to avoid confusion with [[Armor Piercing]].

:A property of a Monkey that indicates it cannot attack and has no ATK (treated as zero ATK by cards like [[Bed Time]]) or reload stat.

:The player whose board a card is placed on. There does not appear to be a distinction between a controller and owner ([[Emboldened Bloon]] uses "control", while [[Return to Sender]] uses "owner", but they refer to the same concept).

:The amount of Gold or Bloontonium a card or Hero Ability requires to play and consumes when played.

:*The amount of health that a Bloon loses from a Monkey, Hero, Power, or card effect.

:*The amount of health that a Hero loses from a Bloon or Power.

:To remove a Bloon via popping or leaking. All non-[[Undead]] Bloons that were destroyed go to the Graveyard.

 

:A property of a Monkey that indicates the card can attack, but the player cannot control when or what it attacks.

:A card the opponent controls.

:A card the player controls.

;Gold spent

 

;[[Graveyard]]

:A playable character that has special abilities that require or cost Bloontonium, and is capable of equipping cards unique to them.

;{{anchor|Leak|Leak}}

:A playing field for Heroes to play Monkeys and Bloons, with additional game conditions (e.g. +5 Bloon Health on [[Dark Castle (BCS)|Dark Castle]], +2 starting Gold on [[High Finance (BCS)|High Finance]]) that are unique to the map.

:The opposing player, who is always placed at the right of the map.

:A category of card that only has an effect and no placeable unit.

:Indicates that the game chooses the target of an effect using [[wp:random number generation|random number generation]].

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Players (and, occasionally, patch notes or official decks) commonly use these terms. However, they are not used within gameplay-related text, such as card descriptions or Hero Ability descriptions.

:The process of immediately and constantly applying pressure to an opponent with Bloons before their defense is established. Aggro usually sets out to kill the opponent before they can establish control of the board, and tends to use low-delay Bloons like [[Yellow Bloon (BCS)|Yellow Bloon]] to put on immediate pressure.

:A play that forces or goads the opponent to respond in a specific way, such as playing a weaker Bloon to get the opponent to use all their ammo on it, then playing stronger Bloons on the next turn to make it harder for the opponent to defend. This term does not describe an archetype, but can describe the purpose of specific Bloons in decks (Such as a tempo deck running [[Swarm Yellow Bloon]] to bait [[Super Monkey Storm (BCS)|Super Monkey Storm]].)

:Cards which are held in hand for an extended period of time without a way or reason to use them, thus taking up space in a player's hand. Bricks are often categorized for having either very conditional ways to play them that are infrequent, costing loads of money, or having high charges combined with high prices.

:A playstyle that focuses on chipping the opponent's health with cards that are difficult to prevent damage from, like [[Bloon Strike]] and [[Pink Bloon (BCS)|Pink Bloon]]. Burn decks often can be similar to Aggro decks, but are differentiated due to their higher focus on cards with instant damage.

:The process of eliminating as many opposing threats as efficiently as possible to ensure they are unable to react to threats in later rounds, or run out of cards in their deck. Control decks often have many Monkeys and Powers to ensure their opponents cannot kill them before or while in the lategame.

:A card that acts as a way to reduce an opponent's remaining health to 0 by itself, such as [[Pink Bloon (BCS)|Pink Bloon]] or [[Quick Ready]].

 

:Another word for [[#Leak|leaking]].

:A playstyle that focuses on winning in the mid-game by surviving early-game aggro decks and beating control decks before they can set up their main defenses.

;{{anchor|OtK|OtK}} / OTK

:Short for "one-turn kill", meaning reducing the opponent's health from full to 0 in one turn. OTK decks commonly run Bloons such as [[Double Yellow Bloon]] with cards like [[Quincy Action Figure]] to set up OTKs. OTK decks also are not necessarily slow, as some OTK decks will go faster than others.

:The process of getting high value out of offensive and defensive cards to create a snowballing effect and win the game by having higher stats than the opponent. Cards like [[Banana Farm (BCS)|Banana Farm]] are often used to gain gold and stat leads on the opponent.

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*CGK/Kiln: [[Ceramic Glazing Kiln]]

*DMT/Twins: [[Dart Monkey Twins]]

*Exneg/Negotiator: [[Expert Negotiator]]

*Gwoice: [[Gwen's Choice]]

*Vengeance/HoV: [[Heart of Vengeance Druid]]

*IAOFN: [[It's All On Fire Now]]

*Mass Det/Mdet: [[Mass Detonation]]

*POD: [[Prince of Darkness (BCS)|Prince of Darkness]]

*PST/Slowing Totem: [[Powerful Slowing Totem]]

*QR: [[Quick Ready]]  

*R2S: [[Return to Sender]]

*Steady Growth: [[Steady Growth Bloon]]  

*Stun Gas: [[Stun Gas Bloon]]

*TBO/TB1: [[The Big One (BCS)|The Big One]]

*TT5/TTM: [[Total Transformation Monkey]]

*ZJS: [[Zee Jay Special]]

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