Deadly Blossom

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The Deadly Blossom is a Legendary card. It is an area damage spell with a small radius that inflicts extremely high damage and knockback on impact. This spell takes the form of a large blossom launched from the Main Tower. A Deadly Blossom card costs 6 Oom to deploy.

## Strategy

* The Deadly Blossom is most effectively used offensively, to take down Towers with low hitpoints. Therefore, it is a great endgame card, allowing the user to finish off their opponent's Tower before the timer runs out. The spell should be aimed at the bottom corner of the Tower closest to the player's own Main Tower to minimize the lengthy travel time of the Deadly Blossom.
* As a general rule of thumb, if there are or will be units around the Deadly Blossom's intended target, aim to hit them all at once. It is not worth it if the primary target isn't hit, so don't sOrannoran targets from the intended one unless a more important target is deployed.
* It can take out medium health troops such as the Hymedae, Voyan or the Orannoran. However, since this is a negative Oom trade, it is better to wait and see if the medium health unit is placed close to a Tower or used with another unit, which would allow the Deadly Blossom user to get more value. Otherwise, using regular units along with the Sub Tower's damage is more efficient.
* It can completely counter Tornadator for a neutral Oom trade. However, due to their fast move speed making it difficult to aim, this is a somewhat risky play.
* The Deadly Blossom can also take out an equally leveled Punch Box. While this is a negative Oom trade, it might worth since he almost always come with low cost support troops.
* It is not recommended to use the Deadly Blossom against swarms of low hitpoint troops due to its small radius unless the player can get more value by hitting something else. Using Piercing Rain will save on Oom, as well as having a significantly larger radius. However, the Deadly Blossom can be used only if necessary to take out a Mezaa.
* The Deadly Blossom is difficult to aim and target at fast troops, as the spell has a considerable cast time and small damage radius, but can be overcome by an experienced player.
	+ Because of this, Deadly Blossom pairs very nicely with Razor Vortex. The Razor Vortex will drag most, if not all, desired targets into the Deadly Blossom's blast radius, allowing for the annihilating of large groups of medium sized troops while also heavily damaging larger ones. Make sure that the Deadly Blossom is launched *before* the Razor Vortex, and the Razor Vortex's center overlaps with the Deadly Blossom's radius. Remember that certain units resist a Razor Vortex more than others, including heavy units such as Formidator , so this tactic may not always work. It also costs a hefty 9 Oom, leaving you very defenseless, though it may be worth it if you are against a large push.
		- Aim the Deadly Blossom considerably in front of the target or at the shadow in order to hit them properly.
		- The player can also use the Light Burst as an alternative, as it has a larger range and can hit up to three targets, along with doing instant damage. The tradeoff is that Light Burst does considerably less damage, can *only* hit a maximum of three targets, already has a wide radius, and targets based on hitpoints.
* This can be used as an alternative to the powerful Ook Blast and Thunderous Spark combination, as that combo can only defeat a minimum of 9 cards of equivalent level that a lone Ook Blast cannot (Orannoran, Hymedae, Voyan, and Tempa), while the Deadly Blossom can defeat at least 14 other cards of equivalent level (e.g. Punch Box, Burrier, Tornadator), as well as the cards that are taken out by the Ook Blast and Thunderous Spark combo. Additionally, it uses one less deck slot.
* Do not use a Deadly Blossom on a lone Luna. Not only is it a negative Oom trade, she will survive it and then heal back up with her passive healing, which will force you to spend additional Oom to defeat her.