It is based on a rocket, a missile, spacecraft, aircraft, or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
Its name and description are a play on the phrase and common idiom, "It's not rocket science," meaning that something is not as hard as rocket science, the primary field of aircraft and spacecraft more properly called aerospace engineering, which is generally considered to be very complicated.
Statistics
Class: Brainy
Tribes: Science Barrel Trick
Ability: Destroy a Plant that has 4 or more.
Set - Rarity: Premium - Super-Rare
Card description
Turns out, it IS rocket science.
Update history
Update 1.2.11
Set - Rarity change: Basic - Common → Premium - Uncommon
Update 1.10.22
New sound effects when Rocket Science is played.
Update 1.10.23
New animation when Rocket Science is played.
Update 1.14.13
Rarity change: Uncommon → Rare
Update 1.16.10
Rarity change: Rare → Super-Rare
Update 1.30.4
▲ Tribe added: Barrel
Strategies
With
Rocket Science has a simple ability to help you remove any high strength plant instantly, meaning its usefulness increases as you go later into the match, when the Plant Hero will usually play stronger plants that this trick can target. However, Rocket Science isn't very viable compared to other removal options, and as such isn't seen much in competitive matches.
Rocket Science can sometimes be referred as a "brick" card, meaning it can become useless for many turns if drawn at a bad moment, which can be quite common with it, as the player can get it beginning the match in a bad mulligan, rendering it unusable for at least 3 turns and clogging your hand, or it could be drawn later on, but the opponent may not play any plant targetable by it. For these reasons, other options like Exploding Fruitcake or Extinction Event are generally more useful, as they don't have any restrictions to their abilities and are cheaper.
Against
Relying on only a few high-strength plants when playing against a Brainy hero is very risky, as they can play Rocket Science to destroy one and put you in a bad situation. The only sure way to combat Rocket Science is to use Untrickable cards like Umbrella Leaf (however, it is vulnerable to tricks and will be likely taken out quickly due to the ability hindering the zombie hero greatly) and Apotatosaurus.
If you don't have such cards, try to get the most out of a hard-hitting plant by making it do bonus attacks, use fighters with 3 strength or less, or get many high-strength plants out on the field.
Gallery
Rocket Science's statistics
Rocket Science's card
Rocket Science's card image
Rocket Science being played (1)
Rocket Science being played (2)
Old
Rocket Science's statistics before update 1.30.4
Rocket Science's statistics
Rocket Science's statistics before update 1.14.13
Rocket Science's card
Rocket Science's silhouette
Rocket Science's silhouette
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Premium Pack
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Premium Pack before update 1.6.27
The player receiving Rocket Science from a Basic Pack before update 1.2.11
The player having the choice between Chimney Sweep or Rocket Science as the prize for completing a level before update 1.2.11
Rocket Science being played
Trivia
A rocket similar to this one is found in Wall-Knight's and Z-Mech's comic strip.
It had the most rarity changes out of all cards in the entire game, from Common to Uncommon, then to Rare, and finally to Super-Rare.
The Chinese translation of the description is entirely different. It reads: "Nobody knows how could this rocket strike its target". Aditionally, the name is translated to "Rocket Launch".
Brainy class.
to play, and its ability instantly destroys a selected plant with 4
or more. Its plant counterpart is Shamrocket.
or more.
Untrickable cards like Umbrella Leaf (however, it is vulnerable to tricks and will be likely taken out quickly due to the ability hindering the zombie hero greatly) and Apotatosaurus.
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