Magic-shroom

Magic Mushroom (魔术菇; pinyin: móshù gū) is a plant in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. It throws playing cards at zombies which deal 2 normal damage shots per hit forward and backward, but not at the same time.

Puzzle Pieces for this plant can be collected through daily sign-in reward for Android users in August. It was released in the Sky City update for iOS, along with Rose Swordsman and Bamboo Brother.

Origins
Magic Mushroom's color scheme is very similar to the Agaricus mushroom. The "magic" part comes from its magic hat-shaped cap and the cards that surround the said cap, which are often used for many magic tricks.

Almanac entry
Sun cost: 175

DAMAGE: Moderate

RANGE: Front & Back

RECHARGE: Mediocre

魔术菇可以发射扑克攻击前后方的僵尸.

特点： 可以攻击前方或者后方的僵尸.

植物特征：蘑菇家族

在成为耀眼的魔术菇之前，魔术菇只不过是蘑菇村落中最普通的圆脑袋蘑菇，但是这一切都在它接触魔术世界的时候改变了. “对！我就是一个耀眼的明星！”魔术菇熟练地耍着手中的扑克，这是他认为自己最英俊的姿态. 不要愚蠢地以为魔术菇的帽子里面藏了一只兔子，掀开它你就完蛋了！

In English:

Magic Mushroom throws playing cards back and forth at zombies.

Special: It attacks zombies at front and back

Plants feature: mushroom family

Before becoming a dazzling Magic Mushroom, Magic Mushroom was just a mushroom with the most common round mushroom head in mushroom village, but everything's changed when it comes in contact with the world of magic."Yes! I am a shining star!" Skillfully playing with Magic Mushroom's poker in his hands, which he considers with his most handsome gesture... Don't be so fool to think that Magic Mushroom's hat contains a rabbit. If you open it then you're finished!

Plant Food effect
When given Plant Food, Magic Mushroom summons five large top hats on random tiles on the lawn, creating illusions of zombies that consists of Basic Zombies, Conehead Zombies, and Buckethead Zombies, and sometimes Gargantuars. These Zombie illusions are respective to the world the level is in and fight for the player.

Costumed
It will only spawn Buckethead Zombies and Gargantuars. In the 1.6.2 update and up, it now reduced the chance of spawning a Gargantuar and instead, it will now spawn illusion Conehead Zombie as well.

Strategies
The Magic Mushroom is not very strong at battling zombies, as somewhat most other offensive plants are powerful than it. However, it can shoot backwards and can be used against Prospector Zombies and Flying Imps. But the true power of it is in its Plant Food ability, where it is capable of spawning multiple high-health zombies that fight for the player that can include Gargantuars, which exceeds Hypno-shrooms in advantage as the Hypno-shroom can only create one hypnotized zombie at a time. Five to ten level 4 Magic Mushrooms connected by Tile Turnips are very deadly as the player can have a huge wave of illusion zombies approaching through the lawn, which will end up in the current zombie crowd overwhelmed. It is even usable as aerial defense in Sky City as in there the zombies created are aerial, allowing them to fight other zombies easily. Beware, as stronger plane zombies can kill even illusions Gargantuars in a slice.

Trivia

 * Magic Mushroom, Freeze Mushroom, and Flame Mushroom are the only mushrooms that are exclusive to the Chinese version.
 * They are also the only mushrooms that use magic to attack.
 * Magic Mushroom, Bonk Choy, Squash, Split Pea, Ghost Pepper, Homing Thistle, Phat Beet, Wasabi Whip, Kiwibeast, and Grimrose are the only plants that can attack in both the front and the back.
 * It is the only mushroom to do this.
 * Magic Mushroom shares the same idle animation with Sun Bean and the aquamarine Bowling Bulb.
 * For some reason, in the upgrade menu, it has Rotobaga's level upgrade icons.
 * However, since the Lost City update, Magic Mushroom has new level upgrade icons.
 * Magic Mushroom first appeared on the Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars website in May 2015.
 * In the 1.6.0 update, Magic Mushroom and Rose Swordsman had their sound effects added.
 * It always shoots the ace of spade card.
 * The Zombies do not have a hypnotized coloration, but they still fight for the player. This is because they are simply illusions created by the Magic Mushroom.
 * Since 1.6.2 version, Magic Mushroom Plant Food's effect has been nerfed:
 * In Kongfu World, if an illusional zombie managed to reach a Weapon Stand, it will somehow get reverted back.
 * It has less of a chance to spawn a Gargantuar and instead spawn Conehead Zombies more frequently.
 * Any illusional zombies that are in Loquat's range can be attracted. The same is also happen to hypnotized zombies and pumpkin-head zombies.
 * This is the only mushroom that is a monthly special plant.
 * Illusion Gargantuars will not attempt to toss their Imps.
 * Since Kongfu World has no specific Gargantuar, it reuses the original Garagntuar.
 * In its seed packet and Puzzle Piece, it does not have any cards surrounding its cap.
 * Its cards cannot hurt a Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel. Instead, the cards will fly over the barrel and hurt the Barrel Roller Zombie pushing the barrel or another zombie if the Barrel Roller Zombie has been defeated.
 * Even though Magic Mushroom cannot destroy Barrel Roller Zombie's barrel, it will keep trying to attack it.

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