Sand Bucket Orchid

Sand Bucket Orchid is a seedium Reinforce-mint plant in , which was introduced and is only obtainable in the 2022 event by collecting 250 of its seed packets. Sand Bucket Orchids create sand sculptures that can serve as a defensive plant to hold off the zombies from reaching your lawn. 
However, it needs time to recharge and create sand sculpture. It will take 15 seconds to create a single sand sculpture. Sand sculptures that Sand Bucket Orchid creates are sand castles, cones, and buckets. These sculptures are considered which means it can be placed on a tile occupied with another plant.
Sand castles have the least health out of the three sculptures and are uncommon, but it can slow down zombies that are eating it. Sand cones have moderate health but have no special abilities, they are commonly generated by Sand Bucket Orchid. Sand buckets have the rarest chance of being generated with the highest health. 
==Origins==
Sand Bucket Orchid is based on the real-life plant named Coryanthes, commonly known as the Bucket Orchid because of its bucket-like shape.
Sand buckets are common on the beach in the summer which people use to store sand to sculpt sand castles and sculptures with.
==Overview==
Sand Bucket Orchid costs 400 sun with a 20 second recharge, and takes 15 seconds to create sand sculptures. When the sand sculpture is finished, it will be ready to be placed anywhere. The player can tap on the plant when it is ready and then choose to put it anywhere they want, and once the plant is placed, it will start creating again. 
Sand castles are vine plants produced by Sand Bucket Orchid that has 1500 of health that slows down zombies eating it while providing a weak protection, it has a 35% chance of being made. Sand cones have 2500 dps of health while having no special abilities, it has a 55% chance of being made. Sand buckets has 3500 dps of health and protects the plant it occupies from a single smash and has the rarest chance of being made by 10%. 
==Almanac entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant food effect===
When fed with plant food, Sand Bucket orchid will deploy a sand castle, cone, and bucket onto 3 random tiles occupied with plants that has no vine plants. It will choose a random tile if there are no other plants left.
===Reinforce-mint effect ===
When boosted by , Sand Bucket Orchid will generate sculptures at 5 seconds instead of 15. Along with that, all the sand sculptures on the board gain an extra 1000 dps of health, and the sand castles will have a higher chance of slowing down zombies.
===Level upgrades===
TBA
===Mastery upgrades === 
*Chance to boost
*Faster reload time
*Toughness Bonus
==Strategies==
Sand Bucket Orchid is an extremely great utility plant that is useful for providing extra health to defensive plants, or using it to replace defensive plants in seed selection. While it has decent health, it is not a good front line plant due to its quite low health. However, it can defend itself from zombies launched amidst your defenses such as or , putting it on the back of the board or behind your front defenses is a great placement for it.
Its sculptures can be deployed anywhere on the board, and can be great for several scenarios. Its sand sculptures provide great defense for any front-line plants such as or . However its sculptures provide the best utility for defensive plants that deal passive damage such as or even . Due to the increased health, it increases the damage potential for plants by a large margin. 
 has great synergy with sand castles generated by Sand Bucket Orchid because of its slowing down effect which isn't negated by Torchwood's fire peas. In addition its passive damage gets a huge damage potential boost with extra health provided by the sand sculptures. However other sand sculptures are also great for protecting it, as the damage potential is greatly increased.
It can help protect plants behind and in the range of Imps being thrown by by putting sculptures on plants on that area, as helping with extra reinforcements can prevent important plants from getting eaten by zombies.
==Trivia==
*This plant was a submission for the Summer Nights 2022 contest.
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