Black-Eyed Pea

Unreleased

Black-Eyed Pea is a premium rare plant card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Mega-Grow plants. It costs 2 and has 2/3 when first played. Its effect gives itself +1/+1 whenever the opposing hero plays a trick.

Origins
Its appearance and name is based on the black-eyed pea, which is a legume of a subspecies of the cowpea.

In addition, it may be a reference to "The Black Eyed Peas", an American musical group.

Statistics

 * Class: Mega-Grow Plant
 * Tribe: Bean Pea Plant
 * Effect: This gets +1/+1 when a Zombie Trick is played.
 * Rarity: Premium - Rare

Card description
You shoulda seen the other guy!

Strategies
By itself, Black-Eyed Pea is a powerful plant for its cost, with its 2/3 stats being at the high point for 2-cost cards. However, its real use lies in its ability as a deterrent against heavy trick usage from the opposing hero: As zombie tricks can be highly dangerous to the plants if properly used, Black-Eyed Pea can help cutting trick usage by giving the plants notable benefits with each trick usage and force the enemy to be more careful.

Additionally, since Black-Eyed Pea is a Pea Plant, it can benefit from The Podfather and Torchwood, making it even stronger.

Counters
Avoid using tricks too early unless the zombie fighters can deal with it. This plant essentially locks down nearly all tricks and is pretty formidable early with its stats. Using powerful zombies will be the key, as well as bouncing this plant. A sneaky strategy is if you have Rocket Science or Cut Down to Size, then you could spam cheap tricks until this plant has a high enough amount of strength points, then finish it off with the aforementioned tricks.

Trivia

 * Before update 1.2.11, if a trick was used to get its health exactly to 0, it won't die; it will do its special effect and survive with a +1/+1 boost.
 * Despite being called a Black-Eyed Pea, it is also a Bean card.
 * This is because the real life plant is a bean; its name coming from the fact that it has the appearance of a "black-eyed" pea.