Terminology
| Term
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Description
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| Active Ability
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| Ammo
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| Attack
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| Attack Power
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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.
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| Bloon
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| Bloontonium
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| Card
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| Card back
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| Cost
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The amount of Gold or Bloontonium required and consumed in order to play a card.
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| Damage
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| Deck
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| Deck out
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| Delay
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| Draw
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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.
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| Economy
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The base amount of Gold the player earns at the start of their turn.
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| Effect
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| Enemy
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| Friendly
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| Gold
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| Hand
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| Heal
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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.
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| Health
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| Hero
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| Hero Ability
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| Keyword
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| Map
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| Match
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| Monkey
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| Mulligan
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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.
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| Opponent
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| Owner
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| Passive Ability
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A Hero Ability that triggers its effects automatically as long as that Hero's Bloontonium is at or above a specific threshold.
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| Pick
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| Play
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| Player
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| Power
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| Rarity
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| Reload
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| Remove
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| Round
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| Shield
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| Storm
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| Summon
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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.
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| Target
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| Turn
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Common aliases and abbreviations
| Term
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Description
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| DMT
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| JBD
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| PoD
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