Zippee the Zombee

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You get an Evil Twin every 15 enemies you kill. (Create a plain copy of a Good character, but it's Evil!)

**Zippee the Zombee** is a hero card. For every 15 opposing characters killed in brawls, **Zippee the Zombee** gets an Evil Twin in their hand, letting them create Evil copies of their Good characters. (A counter will show up next to your hero portrait telling you how many enemies you need to kill before this happens.)

## Strategy

**Zippee the Zombee** has a powerful ability, giving it access to several Evil Twins throughout the course of the game and letting it triple Good characters, getting treasures reliably.

When the counter gets low, be careful to have a free hand space going into a brawl, or have a character you want to use it on. If you don't have hand space when your counter hits 0, the Evil Twin will show up in your shop with a 0 Gold cost, but you will need to cast it before you roll your shop or else lose it permanently. Note that as long as the spell goes to your hand, you can save it for later, potentially using 2 of them at once to instantly Upgrade a Good character and get the treasure.

While your ability is powerful, it does come with some unique drawbacks. You will need to draft Good characters, but when Evil Twin results in that character upgrading, the result is Evil, potentially shutting off some synergies (while perhaps enabling others). The most clear example is Good Boy, which will likely not fit your board despite otherwise having characters that fit. In particular, while **Zippee the Zombee** can pursue a Royals strategy well thanks to being able to Upgrade Royals reliably with Evil Twin, Good Boy will not be a good option later if you do this. Conversely, Empress Pea or Hercules might slot decently into a board featuring The Great Pumpkin if you make them Evil this way.

Beauty's Influence is a noteworthy spell for **Zippee the Zombee**, allowing you to use their ability on otherwise-Evil characters or bringing characters made Evil back to being Good.

As of the October 3, 2022 patch, Questing characters can triple and then also complete their quests, which can allow **Zippee the Zombee** to amass multiple treasures with 2 Evil Twins (or if you have Sky Castle, just 1 - so look out for this treasure). Brave Princess, The Nutcracker, Lancelot, and Hercules are all candidates at level 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. When you triple a Quest character, the resulting character will have the progress of the most progressed copy, so if your original has almost completed their Quest, completing the quest should be easy from there, especially since the upgraded copies of Quest characters tend to have an easier time with their quest than unupgraded ones. You can also double-dip on Noble Steed this way - it affects tripled quest characters too! Getting two level 7 treasures from Hercules can win you the game.

Overall, **Zippee the Zombee** is a powerful late-game hero that can do very well if you can survive to midgame and can master the quirks of their power. Early game, focus on staying alive and going for short-term power, as you usually won't get to use your ability until late level 3 or early level 4, and if you take too much damage before then, you often won't be able to use it to its full potential. As opponents boards have more characters and you get stronger, you should hopefully get your ability every 2-3 fights from there.

Humpty Dumpty, B-a-a-d Billy Gruff, and Sleeping Princess work well for surviving the early game, letting you get kills early and avoid taking too much damage.

## Notes

* The Evil Twins that **Zippee the Zombee** gets are special in that they also allow you to cast an additional spell that turn, even if you don't have Crystal Ball.
* As with any spell cast from hand, Evil Twins cast from hand will not be duplicated by Forking Rod, Wand of Weirding, or Black Prism.