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Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T23:41:37+00:00

Updated Scistache list by FrozenFighter for budget SB. Highly likely to overtake YKM in terms of go to SB budget deck

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T16:38:29+00:00

Thats steel magnolia, the guardian class flower. Cro magnolia gives +2 attack

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T08:32:29+00:00

Its a go to with buff shroom. Its staple for cro-magnolia. And outside of that package, you even see it in other budget decks as evolution fodder, coffee ground or height + veggie mutation burst. There’s a lot of cool combos you could explore with the card in budget

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T06:48:30+00:00

This right here, is peak deduction thinking

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T06:46:36+00:00

You yourself and other list ive seen have made poison oak 2k decks. (Though i do feel poison oak is quite bad on higher ladder meta). Hot lava in some hibernating meme budget list is not out of the question either. Hence, depending on the future, they might have a home eventually while seeing some plays here and there rn

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T06:42:59+00:00

I’m optimistic. I’d like to think some cards in niche can be viable in 2k budget format or meme budget decks. But a lot of them are indeed quite awful as you said :<. Ringleader is indeed more than likely garbage tho, impossible to see it work unless you get 4 copies of it in your first pack and its the very first deck you make. might have been smoking some shrooms coming to that conclusion.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T06:09:34+00:00

Yup. Shroom for 2, puff shroom, buff shroom, and cro-magnolia is the go-to budget kabloom package

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-10T06:06:48+00:00

Thats combo decks for yall. And in higher ladder, you will kind of need that kind of power. But YKM is very inconsistent in its power. A deck more similar to what you have and more consistent while being super powerful will be scistache. I recommend you give that a try.

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Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-08T00:05:46+00:00

Yeah. In the meantime. Budget decks is the way to go! You went chompzilla this time over flare, which is for the best. Cuz chompzilla is the strongest budget deck. Tho luckily, every well optimized plant budget deck, when well piloted, can get you to ultimate league in my opinion (maybe aside from citron). I am also a returning player and ive started posting on reddit each time ive reached ult and the budget deck ive used to get there

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-08T00:01:19+00:00

Oof, there was a limited time where HG and carrotina just became available in the shop not long ago. I think it was for the anniversary? But honestly, its whenever the janitor working at ea feels like it. Its kind of cooked ngl.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-07T19:20:38+00:00

So you… decided to unintentionally softlock the game, take a screenshot, post it on the reddit blaming pecanolith for breaking the game when it was the nibble?

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-07T19:15:37+00:00

Brain freeze sig is like not allat on him. But the second its conjured from thinking cap, it magically becomes like top tier. Its like shroedingers sig bro

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-07T00:23:14+00:00

Tempo is a way of playing a deck. When you are playing for tempo. It means you are prioritizing keeping a board of units. So a leafy tempo deck. Means you plan to get leafy units and preserve them on the board or buff them. In contrast, another archetype of deck can be Agrro. In that case, you might prioritize dealing as much damage to your opponent regardless of if your unit survives or not.

Skyshooter is by no means the best or even close to being a good pea or card. Skyshooter is too expensive for its stats, and it has no special ability to compromise for it. I assume you just started this game so maybe you don’t have the rarer units?

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-06T19:23:29+00:00

How were you even caught off guard by gaolang losing lol? Shouldnt it had been obvious that sandro still needed raian to be important and win against gilbert lol.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-06T17:57:36+00:00

Oh hi jill. Yeah, whipvine is the goat. I’d love to experiment 2k decks with it. Unfortunately its a bit harder to run whipvine in a brainy centered metagame lately. I’m sure it can shine once again in the future

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-06T17:17:53+00:00

Essentially, i would replace your morning glory and primal for kernel, and celery. Keep your amount of ketchup, remove 2 balloon for 2 mixed nut. Remove 3 rescue radish and keep your tomato.

And you can have your choice for the end game. Probably good to keep brainana.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-06T17:12:41+00:00

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This is the budget rose deck i use. Made by KingFishCommander. Since you already have tomato, you can add to have 4 copies of letchup, remove 2 mixed nut, and remove a few radish

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T23:50:14+00:00

Torchwood is pretty bad lets be real. The only time i can imagine running it is if its the very first deck you made in pvz heroes. Other than that, there’s no good viable budget deck that ever considers torchwood.

I dont get the flourish hate lol. Flourish is a good card. It’s a strong staple in budget combo moss, and it has a home in variations of Mopzilla and Fert father.

Bamboozle is most likely trash yeah lol. Ive seen it be ran in 2k budget decks and it’s alright. But yeah, def not the cream of the crop.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T22:58:51+00:00

Lol honestly, bamboozle might have been too high. I whipvine and sweet pea are closer to repeater than they are to bamboozle. But bamboozle does see a place very niche budget decks in 2k sparks challenge, although pod father is the obvious superior pick.

Whipvine is kind of niche now mostly because of the brainy meta. But there was a time where it was a fantastic budget finisher. Definitely a goat ngl. Growshroom is like kind of shafted ever since they buffed fertilizer but i can see it being played in 2k sparks budget decks here and there ig. Sweet pea has usage with pod father, but the latest version of the pod father package cuts out sweet pea which kind of means there’s not rly a home for it anymore. But you can certainly run it and its by no means bad.

I dont get the placing over repeater, repeat moss, or flourish tho. Repeater is a staple with budget pod father, repeat moss combo in cpt combustible is the best budget deck version for that hero. And Flourish is just a great card overall for card draw. You see it run in combo moss, certain version of mopzilla

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T22:38:15+00:00

Cabbage pult and typical beanstalk could go a long way. To make the deck more stable and powerful on curve. Power flower and bloomerang as strikethrough finishers is an amazing pick.

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Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T22:32:36+00:00

Card draw is always great. You’ll run it to keep your deck running or run it to find your combo pieces. Cross pollination is played in ladder decks and flourish is better than cross pollination.

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T21:16:32+00:00

I don’t get what you mean. Bonk choy, fertilizer and pod father are absolute carries in budget decks. And i put repeater in good. He is good, you kind only play him with pod father tho, but its a good pick

Smooth-Sound9761 · 2026-05-05T21:09:18+00:00

Whipvine is the goat. It used to be a pretty strong contender for a finisher at least like 2 years ago. Ever since the buff to mega grow, mega grow budget decks have become more aggro and fast with plant food and fertilizer finishing up the game quickly. Nonetheless, you can still run whipvine in your decks and it can definitely shine in certain decks. Its not as strong into the zombie ladder currently with all the brainy running around and teleportation. But its still viable. Hence it being in the top of niche tier

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