Bastion: the card in The Tower nobody can pull

DESCRIPTION This video is sponsored by UGphone. Run The Tower 24/7 on a cloud phone, even while your own phone is off. Code Flipstars: 4 free hours + 488 diamonds https://www.ugphone.com/toc-page/prom... UGphone Discord:   / discord   Website: https://www.ugphone.com/ Bastion is an epic card that sits in the game files with its own art, two vault nodes, two researches and a mastery, but nobody can pull it. I went through the files of v29.0.6 to find out what it would do, why players think it was too strong, and what keeps it out of the game. What the game files say: On activation Bastion blocks all incoming damage until its pool runs out. The pool is 10% (card level 1) to 70% (max level) of everything your tower blocked this run: defense %, defense absolute, Chrono Field, Chain Thunder, Flame Bot, Primordial Collapse and the Negative Mass Projector. What Bastion blocked itself doesn't count for the next one. The pool is counted the moment Bastion fires. In a typical run of ours (tier 18, wave 6,426: 46,086 Q blocked, 827 Q taken) a maxed-out Bastion's pool at the end would be about 32,000 Q, 39 times all the damage we took. Across our last 31 runs the tower blocked a median of 56 times the damage it took, over 80% of it from defense %. You fire it with a button, not during Intro Sprint. Bastion Automation (10 keys) re-fires it after a recharge; Smart Bastion Automation (25 keys) fires it at the killing blow and absorbs that blow even when it's bigger than the pool. During Intro Sprint that ends Intro Sprint. Recharge Bastion research: back after 1,500 waves at level 1 down to 300 waves at level 7. Without it, once per run. Mastery "Lasting Defenses" (1,000 stones): for 300 waves after each activation every enemy hit on tower and wall is cut by 5% (research level 0) to 50% (level 9), as its own multiplier. Vampire drain skips it. The catch: while the pool is up, defense % and the other reductions don't apply. Pool 100, hit 1,000, 50% defense: 900 with Bastion, 500 without. Why you can't pull it: the card's live flag is set to false at startup, card packs re-roll it, no milestone gives it, and a one-time refund in the save loader returns 20 gems per card plus the mastery stones. Nothing in the files says if or when it comes back. The Reddit thread from September where a player saw "Recharge Bastion" for a moment:   / 1wn971l   Support the channel: use my The Tower creator code flipstar for anything you buy in The Tower (in the game or in the web store). It costs you nothing extra. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:19 What it is 0:45 The pool 2:02 How it fires 2:27 Recharge 3:58 The mastery 4:51 The catch 5:17 Why you can't have it 6:50 Ending #thetower #ugphone #bastion