Plants vs. Zombies: The Last Hope/Speflunkers

Speflunkers is a special gamemode in PvZ The Last Hope, unlocked in Sandy Sands and develops the theme of exploring the ancient tombs and looting the twisting tunnels.
== Background ==
After unlocking it after beating Sandy Sands - [TBA], Penny notes the path ahead leads away from the tombs they have just battled through, but they have uncovered the long lost tombs of Holediggeria, ancient even by ancient Egyptian standards. Even the resident zombies only scratch the surface and upkeep only the most recent of graves. While irrelevant to the main storyline, Penny observes the promise of adventure is tempting and forgotten treasures (and dangers) await them. If the player chooses to enter the tombs (at the cost of buying the key via gems), it triggers the Speflunkers adventure. 
== Heroes ==
In this sense the player plays not as themselves, the generic, invisible gardener, but as a Plant Hero leading a courageous crew of plants into the tombs. There are currently five playable heroes that the player can control, each with a different skill set, strengths and weaknesses.
Name 	Flavour text 	Description 	Ability
Nate Timely 	"There's pizza at the bottom of the dungeon, right?" 	Nate's unbridled enthusiasm (and cluelessness) lets him plant and attack faster, but he shrinks in the face of BIG enemies. 	All non-exclusive plants have +20% recharge and attack speed, but this bonus is lost during huge waves and when large enemies or a huge wave is present.
Patrice Blazing	She doesn't really care about treasure, but she hasn't kicked her daily recommended amount of zombie butt yet. 	Patrice is resourceful and efficient, conjuring a useful seed packet or tool out of her well-stocked backpack when she needs them most. 	Every 25 seconds, you may tap Patrice's backpack to randomly gain a seed packet or lawnmower or tool, with an increased chance that it will be useful toward your current situation. This ability's cooldown is refreshed when a huge wave or boss arrives.
Flara Croft 	Badass, fiery and formidable. She's also a sunflower, incidentally. 	Flara's special sword can slash a zombie, inspire sunflowers or even call down the sun. Choose wisely! 	Every 30 seconds, you may tap Flara's sword and select a target. If it's a nearby zombie, she slashes it, doing 35 damage and setting it aflame. If it's a sunflower, it and all plants around it are healed to full and get +50% attack speed. If it's a faraway zombie, she calls down a sunbeam, doing 20 damage to all zombies on its tile.
Green Shadow 	Yes, she's involved in this too. She didn't bother changing her name to something pretentious either (cough, Flara, cough). 	Simple and good. One heavy pea down the middle lane. At the same speed as a Peashooter. Like before, if it works, don't change it to something pretentious.	Every 7 seconds, you may tap Green Shadow to make her fire off a heavy pea down the middle lane. It does 7 damage to the first thing it hits.
Citron 	The irony of bringing a futuristic warrior to pillage ancient zombie tombs is lost on him. If only he could incorporate that into a poem.	Citron can toggle between suppressing the zombie closest to home with a laser, or projecting a Peel Shield to protect himself or his friends! 	Tap Citron's blaster to toggle between Defense Mode, where he projects a 50-ndb Peel Shield to cover a selected 2x1 area, and Attack Mode, where if the zombie closest to home is 5 tiles away or less, he fires a constant laser that does 2nds a second and slows the target.
== Decks ==
Each hero starts with a standard, basic deck (of two seed packets, eight plants and two special cards) which is then expanded by taking loot packs from cleared treasure rooms. Each hero has different loot possibilities, creating varying strategies to take on the Spelunk. Once you 'draw' a seed packet (via the conveyor) it remains there permanently, but if a plant only exists as a card, it can only be planted once.
Nate Timely:
- Peashooter Seed Packet
- Sunflower Seed Packet
- Tall-nut x2
- Potato Mine x2
- Lawn Mower x2
- Melon-pult x2
- Grawww-Bear, Ultimate Face-Puncher x1*
- War Tortoise x1*
Patrice Blazing:
- Sunflower Seed Packet
- Torchwood Seed Packet
- Pea Pod x3
- Cherry Bomb x1
- Lawn-Mower x2
- Stallia x2
- Jeff the Bloomerang x1*
- Cattail Companion x1*
Flara Croft:
- Sunflower Seed Packet
- Puff-Shroom Seed Packet
- Fire Peashooter x2
- Red Stinger x2
- Power Flame x1
- 150 Instant Sun x1
- Inferno Reed x2
- Snapdragon on Steroids x1*
- Fred the Sunflower x1*
*: Special card, exclusive to this gamemode
== Special Cards ==
Each Hero starts with two special cards and more can be acquired as they venture deeper into the tomb complex. Each special card is designed to give the Hero a powerful boost, so they all have powerful abilities, are deliberately overpowered, and cannot be used normally outside this gamemode (though several weakened versions can be looted and taken as prizes, then used in regular gameplay). 
Name 	Sun Cost	Ability 	Can be used by...	Notes
Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face Puncher	100 	Functions similar to a Bonk Choy, attacks with a two-punch combo (1st punch 2 nds, 2nd punch 5 nds with a 30% chance to knockback) 	Nate Timely 	Starter card
War Tortoise 	100 	A Carrotillery mounted on a pet tortoise, functions like a standard Carrotillery but has higher health and is much cheaper 	Nate Timely 	Starter card
Jeff the Bloomerang 	125 	Throws a boomerang that ricochets between nearby and next-door targets. The boomerang returns to Jeff (hitting its targets again) after four ricochets, and Jeff can have up to three boomerangs in the air at any one time. 	Patrice Blazing 	Starter card
Cattail Companion 	25 	Every 5 seconds, she lines up a piercing laser that goes through everything, can be angled to hit other lanes, and does 5 damage to zombies. This cuts Patrice's ability cooldown by three seconds. 	Patrice Blazing 	Starter card
Snapdragon on Steroids 	200 	Belches 6-damage fireballs in a 3x3 range in front of it incredibly rapidly. Each fireball does area damage. After shooting 35 fireballs, he gets tired and breathes clouds of zombie-slowing smoke instead for 10 seconds, before reverting to belching fireballs. 	Flara Croft 	Starter card
Fred the Sunflower 	0 	Produces large sun, 1.5 times the speed of a regular Sunflower. 	Flara Croft 	Starter card
Super Sidekick 	25 	Acts like a Repeater, but shoots slightly faster. If she would be destroyed or removed in any way, she reverts to card form and 'escapes' by shufflling herself into your deck (essentially she never truly dies because you will eventually be able to replant her). 	Green Shadow 	Starter card
Invisibility Cloak 	50 	Both Green Shadow and the target plant become invisible and untargetable (but can still be damaged) for 15 seconds, while continuing to perform their normal functions. After you play this card, it is shuffled back into your deck, allowing it be played an unlimited number of times. 	Green Shadow 	Starter card
Infi-nut Buddy 	0 	Functions like an Infi-nut but occasionally releases waves of static that slow and damage zombies. Tap him and an empty tile to make him teleport to that tile, releasing a powerful knockback shockwave on arrival. He can't teleport again until 15 seconds later. 	Citron 	Starter card
Psionic Turret 	100 	When activated, fires a powerful psionic beam that pushes back and damages groups of zombies, while disabling most of their abilities. The beam is narrower (but more intense) the closer its target is. The beam drains fuel (replenish by tapping and holding, the longer you hold the more fuel is restored but the more sun is consumed). Most zombies cannot damage the turret and it automatically deactivates and retreats into a fortified shell when threatened.	Citron 	Starter card
== Trivia ==
* This page is the brainchild of N00bslayer2016!!
* The name 'Speflunkers' is a portmanteau of 'Spelunker', meaning someone who explores caves, and 'flunk'.
* Nate Timely, Patrice Blazing and some of their exclusive cards are heavily based off the characters in the PvZ graphic novels by Dark Horse
* Flara Croft is Solar Flare's alter ego, dressed up for a tomb raid. Her name is a pun on 'Flare' and 'Lara Croft', the hero of the Tomb Raider franchise.
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