Apple Wizard

Apple Wizard was the third obtainable plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. She can be obtained by completing Rewind City- Day 10.

Apple Wizard was an instant plant, which can support explosive plants by increasing their damage to zombies after doing her actions, similar to Power Mints. After few seconds passed, she will disappear from view. She will have different abilities depending on which stages she's in.


 * Stage one - she will use her magic spell to summon confetti missiles at zombies, which deals few damages on them in one vertical column (1x5) to the back.
 * Stage two - she will use her magic spell to launch one armed Primal Potato Mine and two armed normal Potato Mines and they will land on three random tiles. Any plants caught on Primal Potato Mine's splash explosion get recovered and healed from it.
 * Stage three - she will raise her staff and summon a rolling fireball down her lane, destroying any zombies on her lane. Also, it leaves a fire trail right behind.

The first stage only happen if the player plant her for the first time, while others only happen during a huge wave of zombies. Unlike other plants in the series, she does not recharge after being planted. Instead, the player must wait for a huge wave of zombies to use her again.

Origins
Apple Wizard's design was based off Megumin from an anime show named Konosuba, along with her costume as well. Her name was a pun of "arch wizard" and "apple", a real-life plant that Apple Wizard based off.

Other than her design, her almanac entry mentions so many Konosuba references, such as:


 * Carrotsuba was a parody of the forementioned anime TV Show.
 * Crusader Wall-nut was possibly a reference to Darkness from Konosuba (full name: Lalatina Dustiness Ford).
 * Hydro-Ice Bloom was a reference to Aqua from Konosuba (for more information about it, the almanac also tells that Hydro-Ice Bloom was useless, referencing how the fans thought Aqua was useless).
 * Dartichoke in this almanac entry also mentioned, which somewhat referencing Kazuma, who was a former leader of the team.

Bombard-mint's effect
Once being affected by Bombard-mint, Apple Wizard's confetti absorbing an additional 165 damage per shot.

Strategies
(None so far)

Trivia

 * Unlike Bombard-mint and Pepper-mint plants, zombies that caught in fire and explosions do not turn into ashes. Instead, they're popped their heads normally. It is unknown if it's intentional or not.