Bloons Card Storm glossary

Terminology

Term	Description
Active Ability
Ammo
Attack
Attack Power	The amount of damage a Monkey deals with its attack to a Bloon. Some Monkeys have card effects that deal damage independent of their Attack Power, which means they are not affected by Attack Power modifiers.
Bloon
Bloontonium
Card
Card back
Cost	The amount of Gold or Bloontonium required and consumed in order to play a card.
Damage
Deck
Deck out
Delay
Draw	An action that adds a card from the player's deck to their hand. Most drawing actions draw the top card(s) of the player's deck to their hand, such as the draw that occurs at the start of each turn, but some actions can search for and draw specific kinds of cards.
Economy	The base amount of Gold the player earns at the start of their turn.
Effect
Enemy
Friendly
Gold
Hand
Heal	An action that restores the health of a Hero or Bloon, but cannot grant more health than the target originally started with. Actions that can raise health above the normal amount are usually referred to as "gaining <x> health" in descriptive text.
Health
Hero
Hero Ability
Keyword
Map
Match
Monkey
Mulligan	The act of discarding a card from the player's hand, returning it to the deck, and drawing a new card. Each player can mulligan a card in their starting hand up to three times before the first turn.
Opponent
Owner
Passive Ability	A Hero Ability that triggers its effects automatically as long as that Hero's Bloontonium is at or above a specific threshold.
Pick
Play
Player
Power
Rarity
Reload
Remove
Round
Shield
Storm
Summon	An action that creates a Bloon, such as a player playing a Bloon card or the Storm generating a Bloon. Originally referred to as "spawning" in in-game text, but all instances of it were replaced with "summoning" (or other conjugations of the word) in version 2.2.
Target
Turn

Common aliases and abbreviations

Term	Description
DMT	Dart Monkey Twins
JBD	Jungle's Bounty Druid
PoD	Prince of Darkness