Arctichoke

The Arctichoke is the fourth plant obtained in the The Moon. Arctichokes can fire an ice beam anywhere on the lawn. The ice beam will freeze one zombie in the tile, deal heavy damage in a one-tile area and chill zombies in a 3x3 area.
== Suburban Almanac Entry ==
Believe it or not, Arctichoke wasn't always ice blasts and a cool conviction. Foolish in his youth, he signed up as a test subject for an experimental cryogenics program, which gave him his extraordinary powers of bodily refrigeration. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility, and Arctichoke thinks there's nothing more responsible than halting zombies in the name of environmental protection, even if that environment happens to be the moon.
== Plant Food ==
Fires 10 large ice beams at zombies on the lawn (in a similar way to the plant food of the Banana Launcher), which freeze all zombies within a one-tile area and do huge damage.
== Strategies ==
The Arctichoke is useful in The Moon to stop Astronaut Zombies from reaching your defences. The plant is useful in any situation where the player wants to chill a large number of zombies but cannot afford the high price of the Winter Melon. It can also be used to keep a few strong zombies like Gargantuars frozen. However, trying to keep particular zombies frozen amongst a large number of zombies would prove very difficult.
== Trivia ==
*Arctichoke is a portmanteau of arctic and artichoke.
**It was originally named Cryochoke, where the cryo- prefix was a reference to cryo-sleep. Cryo-sleep is a method of sedation and preservation of bodies for a long period of time that is popular in the sci-fi genre, for space travel in particular. The almanac entry was changed to reflect this instead.
*The original almanac entry was: "You think you can you beat me? Well, I can freeze you and your thoughts dead! Cryonara, my friend! It’s all it would take. That’s why you should be happy I’m on your side."
**Cryonara is a pun on the Japanese farewell 'sayonara' and amalgamation of cryo- and cynara (the Latin name for artichoke).
*Arctichoke fires the ice beam vertically upwards, which instantaneously strikes another tile vertically downwards. It is likely that the beam is reflected by a satellite dish orbiting the moon.
*The 'leaves' of the Arctichoke fold out when selected in preparation for firing.
== Gallery ==
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