Tesla

What it looks like

The Tesla is a Common card that is unlocked from the Hog Mountain (Arena 10). It spawns a single-target, air-targeting, medium-ranged, building with high hitpoints and high damage. When there are no enemies within range, it retracts underground, making itself immune to all damage except for the Earthquake and the Freeze. It appears to be a wooden lattice structure with a metal coil, cone and sphere placed on top which is surrounded by team-colored supports, a wire coiled around one of its pillar, and a wooden trapdoor with team-colored hinges. A Tesla card costs 4 Elixir to deploy.

Trivia

• The card's name is a reference to Nikola Tesla, a famous scientist known for working with electricity. It is based on one of his inventions, the Tesla coil which wirelessly transmits electricity to the destination; the way tesla coil transmits electricity appears similar to how the Tesla attacks. In the Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese language settings of the game, the Tesla's name translates to "Tesla Tower", "Thunderbolt Tower", "Tesla Electromagnetic Tower", and "Electric Arc Tower" respectively.
• Electricity was first detected through electric fish from as far back as 2750 BCE where Ancient Egyptian texts described them as the "protectors" of all other fish. At around 600 BCE, Thales of Miletus made a series of observations on static electricity, from which he believed that friction rendered amber magnetic, in contrast to minerals such as magnetite, which needed no rubbing. Thales was incorrect in believing the attraction was due to a magnetic effect, but later science would prove a link between magnetism and electricity. Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert wrote De Magnete, in which he made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber. The Tesla is 1 of 11 cards associated with electricity, with the others being Electro Spirit, Zap, Zappies, Electro Dragon, Electro Giant, Lightning, Electro Wizard, Sparky, Wizard Trio, and the Goblinstein.
• The Tesla is 1 of 7 buildings which first existed in Clash of Clans, the others being Cannon, Mortar, Goblin Hut, Inferno Tower, Elixir Collector, and X-Bow. The Tesla resembles the Level 1 Hidden Tesla from Clash of Clans. Its Star Level 2 skin resembles the Level 6 Hidden Tesla in Clash of Clans. In Clash Royale, it is simply called "Tesla" but in Clash of Clans, it is called “Hidden Tesla”. Unlike its Clash of Clans counterpart, the Tesla in Clash Royale actively retreats when there are no valid targets, and when concealed is still visible to all sides, while also being vulnerable to Earthquake and Freeze. The word "electrickery" in its card description is also taken from its description from Clash of Clans.
• Among all buildings that can attack, the Tesla is tied with Cannon for the shortest range of all buildings, with a range of 5.5 tiles.
• The Tesla is the first building to be featured in a Loading Screen.
• The Tesla is one of the first building cards to receive a card render, alongside the Mortar, Goblin Cage, and Goblin Hut.
• The Tesla is 1 of 2 buildings that has been featured with a Rage buff, the other being Goblin Drill.
• The Tesla shares the first part of its description with the Cannon.
• In Touchdown, there are 4 Teslas at the corner of the Arena which will come up and shoot confetti when a team scores.
• The Tesla is unavailable in multiple special game modes. More specifically: It is 1 of 20 cards that is unavailable in Mirror mode, the others being Minions, Cannon, Mortar, Goblin Hut, Tombstone, Bomb Tower, Inferno Tower, Barbarian Hut, Furnace, Elixir Collector, Freeze, Clone, X-Bow, Golden Knight, Skeleton King, Archer Queen, Mighty Miner, Little Prince, and the Monk. It is unavailable in The Floor is Healing sub-mode of the Global Spell game mode, much like other building cards, as well as the Cannon Cart.
• The Tesla is the subject of an Emote.
• Before the Tesla's card release, the Tesla's hitpoints were increased by 23%.