Quarterly Bonus

Pirate's Booty redirects here, not to be confused with Pirate Booty.

Quarterly Bonus
Statistics
Strength	-
Health	-
Cost	4
Set	Triassic
Rarity	Uncommon
Class
Tribe	Barrel Professional Trick
Abilities	Strength of a Zombie becomes 4, then it does a Bonus Attack.
Zombie Pirates kick a lot of booty. Maybe someday they'll figure how to spend it.

Quarterly Bonus is a triassic uncommon zombie trick card in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and a member of the Brainy class.

It costs 4 to play, and its ability increases a zombie's by 4 and makes it do a bonus attack.

Origins

While Quarterly Bonus means an employee’s reward during a fiscal quarter, it could be named that because of the fact it gives 4 Strength to a Zombie, and 1/4 is a quarter in fractions. Its description makes a play on two meanings of "booty," a person's buttocks ("kick butt" meaning to act in a forceful or aggressive manner), and valuable stolen goods.

Statistics

• Class: Brainy
• Tribes: Barrel Professional Trick
• Ability: Strength of a Zombie becomes 4, then it does a Bonus Attack.
• Set - Rarity: Triassic - Uncommon

Card description

Zombie Pirates kick a lot of booty. Maybe someday they'll figure how to spend it.

Update history

Update 1.24.6

• Added to the game.

Update 1.60.79

• ▲ Brain cost change: 5 → 4
• Tribe change: Pirate Barrel → Barrel Professional
• Ability change: Draw a card for each Zombie. → Strength of a Zombie becomes 4, then it does a Bonus Attack.
• Name change: Pirate's Booty → Quarterly Bonus

Strategy

With

After the rework, Quarterly Bonus becomes far more potent (potentially due to a bug), allowing a Zombie to do a bonus attack with 4 extra strength. This can easily cripple your opponent's field, though it should be played with caution, as it makes certain zombies vulnerable to removal (such as Shamrocket).

Using this in tandem with a card that creates a zombie during the trick phase, such as Beam Me Up is also a very powerful play, as it basically does 12 damage if your opponent has an empty lane and does not block at least 1 of the shots.

Against

With its (potentially bugged) rework, Quarterly Bonus becomes a much, much more powerful version of Lurch for Lunch and can be countered the same way. Your options include dissuading or preventing the opponent from playing it such as using Forget-Me-Nuts, Dark Matter Dragonfruit, Brainana, Sportacus and Black-Eyed Pea, destroying as many zombies as possible to prevent or reduce this card's value or having a Wing-Nut on the field, however this method still lets the card grant a zombie +4 strength. Inversely, having a Pecanolith on the field makes the +4 strength granted to the zombie practically redundant but doesn't prevent the bonus attack.

Gallery

Statistics (1.60.79)

Card (1.60.79)

Quarterly Bonus's card image

HD Quarterly Bonus

Quarterly Bonus's textures (1)

Quarterly Bonus's textures (2)

Being played (animated)

Old

Pirate's Booty's statistics

Pirate's Booty's card

Pirate's Booty's grayed out card

Pirate's Booty unlocked

Pirate's Booty being played

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Quarterly Bonus
Simplified Chinese	海盗财宝
Traditional Chinese	海盜的戰利品
French	Trésor de pirate
German	Piratenschatz
Italian	Il bottino del pirata
Japanese	海賊の獲物
Korean	해적의 전리품
Brazilian Portuguese	Vida de pirata!
Russian	Трофей пиратов
Spanish	Bono Trimestral

Trivia

• While the description states that a zombie’s becomes 4, it adds 4 instead. It is currently unknown if this is a typo or a bug.
• This card has gathered widespread infamy among the community for its poor counterplay. It's frowned upon by many to add this card to your deck, especially because it could potentially be an exploit.

V · E	Zombies in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

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Tokens	Zombie · Returned Octo Zombie
Superpowers	Flick-a-Plant · Get Well · Motivate