Expert Negotiator
Expert Negotiator
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| Target enemy Monkey joins your team |
| Every Monkey has a price. |
| Class |  Advanced
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| Card Pack |  Classic
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| Rarity | Rare | |
| Keywords | — | |
| Introduced | Full Playable test | |
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| Cost |  8
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Charges | 1 | ||||||
Expert Negotiator is an Advanced Power card in Bloons Card Storm. It steals a target Monkey from the opponent's side and moves it to the player's side. If the player already has all 5 monkey slots filled, then Expert Negotiator instead removes the monkey it is used on. If successfully transferred, the Monkey is always placed on the available slot closest to the bottom, and if this Monkey has On Play effects, then they trigger again. The stolen Monkey is considered owned by the stealer; using Return to Sender will return the card to their hand, but Card Backs from the original owner will be retained.
The card art depicts Agent Jericho with a briefcase full of Monkey Money (in its Bloons TD 6 design rather than its Bloons Card Storm design).
Tips
This section was last updated for: version 5.0
- Expert Negotiator is best used if your side has space, so you can take advantage of the monkey you stole. Otherwise, it is just a more expensive Shrink that lacks a Baby Monkey.
- For the best value, use Expert Negotiator on Monkeys that have high long-term value. Good candidates include: Jungle's Bounty Druid, Dire Wolf, Arcane Master, scaled Wizard Monkeys and Spike-o-Pults, Monkeys buffed with Try this!, and most Ultra Rare Monkeys.
- If your enemy's side is swarmed with bloons, you can steal a Thunder Druid to trigger its effect, provided your side still has space.
- Be careful if you steal a Sun Temple, because the Sun Temple can sacrifice your monkeys on your side too. However, Sun Temple will gain up to +100 Damage if it sacrifices all four of your other monkeys.
- Care should be taken if stealing a Total Transformation Monkey, as it will transform all monkeys on your side. However, Transformed Monkeys have decent damage.
- An Expert Negotiator can counter an Expert Negotiator; it's a good way to get your stolen monkeys back.
- Note that an opponent counterplaying an Expert Negotiator may steal one of your more valuable Monkeys instead of their recently stolen Monkey.
- Keep a note of how many Expert Negotiators the opponent used; if they already used all 3, they will be forced to use other monkey removals to neutralize their stolen Monkeys
- Favored Trade can be used for freeing up space for Expert Negotiator. Other viable alternatives include Adora's sacrifice ability, and Salvation (also exclusive to Adora).
- Parting Gift also works, but is a very expensive combo.
- Return to Sender also works, but it's preferable to save it for removing an enemy Bloon or scaled Monkey instead of using two Monkey removals for one Monkey.
- Any Temporary Monkey also works, but the player needs to consume all of its ammo and wait until the following turn for the Temporary Monkey to be removed first.
- Monkeys that were Doomed also work, but can only be done at least the turn after applying the Doomed status.
- Expert Negotiator is an expensive power. If the opponent is currently playing aggressively, stealing a Monkey that lacks defense or ammo on the current turn is unwise. Likewise, Expert Negotiator is virtually useless against aggro because most aggro decks have few or no Monkeys.
- Expert Negotiator is completely useless against Bosses, as they cannot run Monkeys.
- Many control decks bring Expert Negotiator to prevent the opponent from capitalizing on their Monkeys, as well as benefit the player.
Update history
- Description changed
Before Target Monkey joins your team After Target enemy Monkey joins your team
When Expert Negotiator is used, the Sun Temple no longer copies the attack power gained from the original sacrifice, instead it gains power equivalent with the amount of monkeys sacrificed on the side of the Expert Negotiator user (bug fix)
No longer causes Extra-Super Monkey and Even More Tacks to gain their bonuses per Gold spent again (bug fix)
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Stealing a Wolf to a Striker Jones user
In other languages
This section was last updated for: version 3.2
| Language | Text | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | Ekspertforhandler | — |
| German | Verhandlungsexperte | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Negociante experto | — |
| French | Expert négociateur | — |
| Italian | Negoziatore esperto | — |
| Japanese | 交渉のエキスパート | — |
| Korean | 협상 전문가 | — |
| Norwegian | Mesterlig forhandler | — |
| Polish | Biegły negocjator | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Especialista em Negociação | — |
| Russian | Эксперт-переговорщик | — |
| Swedish | Expertförhandlare | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 專家談判者 | — |
| Language | Text | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | Hver abe har en pris. | — |
| German | Jeder Affe hat seinen Preis. | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Todos los monos tienen un precio. | — |
| French | Tout singe a un prix. | — |
| Italian | Tutte le scimmie hanno un prezzo. | — |
| Japanese | どのモンキーにも価値がある。 | — |
| Korean | 어떤 원숭이든 설득할 수 있습니다. | — |
| Norwegian | Alle aper har en pris. | — |
| Polish | Każda małpka ma swoją cenę. | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Todo macaco tem seu preço. | — |
| Russian | У всякой обезьяны есть цена. | — |
| Swedish | Varje Apa har sitt pris. | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 每隻猴子心中都有個價格。 | — |
