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Astrocado Pit is a tokenplantcard in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and a member of the Solar class. It costs 1 to play, and has 1. It does not have any traits, and its ability transforms it into an Astrocado at the start of the next turn.
It is based on the pit of an avocado, the fruit of the Avocado tree, a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae.
Its name is a portmanteau of "Astrocado," the plant fighter it originates from, and "avocado pit," the real-life object it is based on.
Statistics
Class: Solar
Tribe: Seed Plant
Traits: None
Ability: Start of Turn: This transforms into an Astrocado.
Set - Rarity: Token
Card description
Getting defeated is the pits.
Update history
Update 1.16.10
Added to the game.
Description change: Was originally Give him time. He'll grow on you.
Strategies
With
While this plant is very cheap, it is also incredibly vulnerable as it only has 1 with no strength. Since it also transforms into a powerful plant, your opponent will likely prioritize on destroying it. If you manage to keep it alive, however, you regain your Astrocado for a cheap price. This often causes a battle between you and your opponent to try to stop one another from keeping/destroying Astrocado Pit.
While the simplest way to protect it is play it on an empty lane, Astrocado Pit will still be vulnerable to zombie tricks such as Rolling Stone, Nibble, or Bungee Plumber. However, this can be remedied by boosting its stats or limiting trick usage by playing certain cards.
Each plant hero has their own ways to protect this plant:
Wall-Knight can protect it by using tough Team-Up plants such as Template:PvZHLink, boosting his health using Steel Magnolia, or by playing Astrocado Pit in Template:PvZHLink, giving guaranteed protection to not only it but also Astrocado. However, his opponent can still use stat-lowering cards such as Nibble or instant-kill cards such as Locust Swarm, rendering Force Field and Team-Up plants useless. Additionally, they can override the environment with one of their own.
Chompzilla can boost it with Fertilize or Grow-Shroom, giving it not only a health boost but also a strength boost to retaliate against any suspecting zombie. She can also use Umbrella Leaf to give it Untrickable to protect it from tricks.
Template:PvZHLink can Freeze or Bounce zombies that threaten Astrocado Pit, helping it to survive the turn. She can also play Brainana to protect it from zombie tricks. Although she needs to make at least 7 sun, generating extra sun is not a problem for her with due to sun-producing cards like Template:PvZHLink.
Solar Flare can play Berry Blast or Sizzle to destroy zombies that threaten this plant. In addition, she can play it in Pair Pearadise, creating a copy of it, in most cases ensuring that at least one will survive even if the other is destroyed. If both survive, she will have two Astrocados next turn, further increasing the value of one Astrocado Pit.
Against
Astrocado Pit is a relatively easy plant to destroy, as its low health gives it a variety of counters against it. Having a zombie in every lane ensures that this plant will not be able to transform unless it is protected with Team-Up plants, or if your opponent has instant-kill cards such as Template:PvZHLink. Because of this, the most secure way to get rid of this plant is by using tricks. Environments such as Trapper Territory or Total Eclipse can also be of use. However, if Astrocado Pit is played in the late game in a situation where you don't have many cards left in your hand, it can start to become a threat.
You should have instant-kill cards such as Locust Swarm to ensure that even if your opponent finds a way to keep this plant alive and allow it to transform, the Astrocado will just be removed instantly. Although this continues the cycle once more, it allows you more time to deal with it, possibly allowing you to destroy Astrocado Pit itself and stop the cycle.
Its old description was very similar to Doubled Mint's, except the sentences were swapped and the word "just" was removed. In update 1.16.10, it was changed to Astrocado's original description, while Astrocado's description was changed.