Setup Bloon

Setup Bloon

On Leak: Reduce cost of a random Bloon in your hand by 2

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Class	Basic
Card Pack	Classic
Rarity	Super Rare
Keywords	On Leak
Introduced	Launch

Stats
Cost			3		Health			20
Charges			1		Delay			0

Setup Bloon is a Basic Bloon card in Bloons Card Storm. If it hits the opponent's Hero, it reduces the Gold cost of a random Bloon in the player's hand by 1. It has a Delay of 0, so it will attack the opponent at the end of the same turn it's played on under normal circumstances.

Tips

This section was last updated for: version 6.4

• As the name implies, the Setup Bloon's primary purpose is to set up a Bloon push on a later turn by reducing their cost.
  • Since it reduces the cost of all charges, it is efficient at discounting Swarm Bloons and Discount Bloons.
  • It can reduce the cost of expensive Bloons to allow the player to play more Bloons in a single turn. This can enable extremely aggressive plays when many Bloons are played at once when normally they could not be.
• Discount Bloon is efficient when discounting Bloons with more than one charge. Anything with two charges or above saves you more Gold than you spend on the Setup Bloon, with 2 charge Bloons giving +1 overall Gold and 3 charge Bloons giving +3 overall Gold. Cards like Swarm Yellow Bloon, Swarm Green Bloon, Yellow Bloon, Strike Bloon, or other early game aggressive Bloons are particularly powerful when discounted.
• Discounting Bloons can decrease the overall Bloontonium gain from them, so be wary when you need Bloontonium.
• The random targeting on the discount from Setup Bloon means that you should try and create a hand where Setup Bloon will very often or always guarantee value, mainly by running mainly 2 charge or above Bloons.
• With Zee Jay's Passive Awesomeness or Ceramic Glazing Kiln, this card deals only slightly less damage than a Bloon Strike, while granting a discount. Although this is a fair use for it, the damage is still low and may make it a low value inclusion in burn decks in terms of damage or when hitting a 1 charge Bloon.
• Setup Bloon is a cheap way to intercept an opponent's Hero Protection or Corvus Academy of Arts if they play either early.
• Setup Bloon can be popped by Defenders or Adora's passive ability, denying the discount. Play around Defenders to guarantee that it can gain value.

Update history

Version 3.0

•  The in-game Bloon model now has a hat (undocumented)

Version 4.0

• Description changed ― On Leaked: Reduce cost of a random Bloon in your hand by 1 → On Leak: Reduce cost of a random Bloon in your hand by 1 (undocumented)

Version 6.4

“

This is an overall pretty massive buff to Setup. Before, Setup really did not get that much value. Even hitting just a 2-charge Bloon didn't get you value because you would save 2, but you would also spend 2. Nowadays, if you use Discount Bloon^[sic] and hit a 2-charge Bloon, you'll get [...] minus 1 cost overall on the thing. On swarm Bloons, it's a much bigger discount; before, [...] if you hit a 3-charge Bloon with Setup, you would [...] save 3 for 2, but with this new rework, you would spend 3 to save 6, which is a much bigger discount. Setup is generally kind of like For My Next Trick in that department, but it's a little bit more liable, can be used by any Hero, and it generally is pretty dang good with some Bloons. I'd recommend trying it out with stuff like Swarm Yellows or the new Discount Bloon [...]
— u/No-Appearance1780's commentary, 7:17–8:17 (with most disfluencies removed)

”

•  Gold cost increased ― 2 → 3
•  Bloontonium gain increased ― 2 → 3
•  On Leak: Discount increased ― 1 → 2

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  Pre-release teaser image where it has 3 charges instead of 1
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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 3.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Danish	Opsætnings-bloon	—
German	Vorbereitungs-Bloon	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Bloon de montaje	—
French	Bloon de paramétrage	—
Italian	Bloon preparatorio	—
Japanese	ダマしのブルーン	—
Korean	설비 풍선	—
Norwegian	Bistandsbloon	—
Polish	Zdradziecki blon	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Bloon de Preparação	—
Russian	Подстраивающий шар	—
Swedish	Inställningsbloon	—
Chinese (traditional)	設置氣球	—

Flavor

Language	Text	Notes
Danish	Ja, der er ting der står med småt.	—
German	Ja, es gibt einen Haken an der Sache.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Sí, hay un lazo que los une.	—
French	Oui, des restrictions s’appliquent.	—
Italian	Sì, sono previsti vincoli.	—
Japanese	そう、これには仕掛けがある。	—
Korean	특정 제한 사항이 있을 수 있습니다.	—
Norwegian	Ja, vilkår gjelder.	—
Polish	Zawsze jest jakiś haczyk.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Sim, o negócio está amarrado.	—
Russian	Да, есть условия.	—
Swedish	Ja, det finns villkor knutna.	—
Chinese (traditional)	對啊，天下沒有白吃的午餐。	—