Birchday Cake

Birchday Cake is a special event premium plant in , obtained for free during the 2021 event (May 5th - May 14th) and can be purchased for 100 gems anytime after the event. Birchday Cake acts like a defensive plant, but drops it's cake on defeat, similarly to how explodes when eaten. The cake knocks back zombies in a 3x3 area away by 2 tiles and damages them for 100 DPS, which can be further increased via levelling up. The cake also acts like a defensive plant, absorbing 3000 DPS before being fully eaten. 
However, Birchday Cake has an additional ability, which allows it to store plants and allows them to slow down zombies near them. For example, let's say you plant an onto Birchday Cake. It will have no effect until Birchday Cake and it's cake has been eaten, where the cake will drop an Endurian seed packet. Similar to how seed packets work, they will last for a short amount of time before disappearing. Anyways, if you have planted the , it will create cream tiles in a 3x3 area around it. These tiles are very similar to 's sap, which slow down zombies. You can plant an unlimited number of plants in Birchday Cake. However, Birchday Cake will not drop the cake when shoveled and the cake will not drop seed packets when shoveled.
If this plant is endangered, the player will lose the level if it drops it's cake.
The cake will start to degrade at 15% of its health, show it's second degrade at 50%, and show it's third degrade at 85% of its health.
==Origins== 
Birchday Cake is based on the birch tree, a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood. 
Birchday Cake's name is a portmanteau of birch, a type of tree, and birthday cake, referring to the item it drops upon defeat. 
==Almanac Entry==
==Upgrades==
===Plant Food Effect===
When fed , Birchday Cake will toss it's cake in front of it and gains a new one. The tossed cake will land 2 tiles in front of Birchday Cake. Similarly to a dropped cake, it knocks back zombies by 2 tiles and damage them for 100 DPS, but can only absorb 2000 DPS. However, plants stored in Birchday Cake will now transfer to the tossed cake.
===Contain-mint effect===
When boosted by , Birchday Cake's knockback and damage upon defeat will increase by 3 tiles and 300 DPS.
===Level Upgrades===
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades 	Upgrades
Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Sun Cost	Recharge(Slow)	Damage  	Toughness	Cake Toughness	Special(Cake Knockback)	Plant Food Power (Second Cake)	Cream Slowdown	Cream Lifespan
1 	0 	0 	150 	30 seconds 	100 	1500 	3000 	2 tiles 	2000 	35% 	15 seconds
2 	10 	0 	150 	30 seconds 	110 	2000 	3500 	2 tiles 	2000 	35% 	15 seconds
3 	25 	0 	150 	28 seconds 	120 	2500 	4000 	3 tiles 	2500 	35% 	17 seconds
4 	50 	0 	125 	28 seconds 	140 	3000 	4500 	3 tiles 	2500 	40% 	17 seconds
5 	100 	0 	125 	25 seconds 	160 	3500 	5000 	3 tiles 	3000 	40% 	17 seconds
6 	200 	0 	125 	25 seconds 	180 	4000 	5500 	3 tiles 	3000 	40% 	20 seconds
7 	400 	0 	125 	23 seconds 	200 	4500 	6000 	4 tiles 	3500 	45% 	23 seconds
8 	800 	0 	100 	23 seconds 	240 	5000 	6500 	4 tiles 	3500 	45% 	25 seconds
9 	1,200 	0 	100 	20 seconds 	270 	5000 	7000 	4 tiles 	4000 	45% 	25 seconds
10 	1,600 	0 	100 	20 seconds 	300 	5000 	7000 	4 tiles 	4000 	50% 	25 seconds
==Strategies==
Birchday Cake may seem like a confusing plant at first, but it will become more versatile the more you use it. This is very good when paired up with defensive plants, like or , which can be planted in Birchday Cake and released to have extra longevity due to the effective slowing effect. You may also use with close ranged plants, like and , to allow them to dish out additional DPS before getting injured.
An interesting combo with Birchday Cake is with , as both can generate a 3x3 slowing area around them. This allows for a super effective stalling plant. This might not work if Stallia is level 5 or higher, since it gains the ability to knock back zombies, which may put some zombies outside of the range of the cream.
If there are many s or instant killing zombies, like the in a level, this plant will pair extremely well since it can survive 2 Gargantuar smashes, while also knocking it back since it drops it's cake on defeat, and Primal Wall-nut being able to survive for longer due to the cream slowing the Gargantuar down, giving the player more time to deal with threats.
==Gallery==
Birchday_Cake.png|Birchday Cake HD
Birchday_Cake_seed.png|Birchday Cake's seed packet
Birchday_Cake_seed imitate.png|Birchday Cake's imitated seed packet
Birchday_Cake_seed no sun.png|Birchday Cake's seed packet with no sun tag
Birchday_Cake_seed no mint.png|Birchday Cake's seed packet with no mint icon
Birchday_Cake_seed no sun mint.png|Birchday Cake's seed packet with nothing
Birchday_Cake cake.png|Birchday Cake's cake
Birchday_Cake cake dg1.png|Birchday Cake's cake downgrade 1
Birchday_Cake cake dg2.png|Birchday Cake's cake downgrade 2
Birchday_Cake cake dg3.png|Birchday Cake's cake downgrade 3
Cream_tile.png|Cream Tile made by plants that came from Birchday Cake
==Trivia==
*This plant's original design would be a fruitcake, where it would have a special effect for every degrade that happened.
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