Santa's Surprise



"Ask Santa for the best present there is: a hail of destruction raining down on your enemies!"


 * Summary
 * The Santa's Surprise Spell creates Santa dropping down explosive presents on a certain area. It is a very powerful spell.
 * This spell was introduced during the 2012 winter theme update. When you cast the 2012 version spell, Santa comes and drops bombs in the form of presents on the defending village for a total of 1,500 damage. The 2016 version does much less damage.


 * Offensive Strategy
 * One strategy made possible by this spell is to take down as many Mortars and Wizard Towers as possible so you can swarm a village with Archers or Barbarians without suffering from splash damage.


 * History
 * This spell prompted Supercell to increase the hit points of the Clan Castle. Players were destroying the Clan Castle with this spell before it could deploy its troops.
 * The spell was available around Christmas 2012, but not on Christmas Day itself.
 * The 2012 version of Santa's Surprise took 1 day and 1 hour to make. That's 25 hours. Christmas is on December 25th. It used to cost 25,000 Gold, like all spells used to.
 * There was a potential cheat to win with Santa's Surprise. You could use 3 (1,500 x 3 = 4,500) Santa's Surprise spells to K.O. the opponent's Town Hall (at the time, a maxed Town Hall level 9 had 4,200 HP). If Gems were no object, it would be possible to gain significant amounts of Trophies quickly with this strategy (though it would take approximately 522 Gems to immediately brew all three spells each time, or US$4.10 per attack if bought in bulk, as a chest of gems used to cost $109.99).
 * Watch the Video of Santa's Surprise!
 * Many players had speculated that there would be a chance that Santa's Surprise will come again in December 2013. However, it was not made available in the December 2013 update, which instead implemented the Santa Strike trap.
 * After the 2012 version became unavailable to create, anyone who had created the spell but had not used it would still have it in their Spell Factory. There have been continuing reports on the forums (as of May 2013) of people being attacked by Santa's Surprise.
 * If a player has the 2012 version and hasn't used it at all, it will automatically be nerfed to the 2016 version.


 * Trivia
 * Santa's Surprise is the only spell that cannot be upgraded due to being temporary, as with the two temporary traps.
 * Since the 19/12/16 update, some temporary contents' stats scale in a unique way. While they're still unable to be upgraded individually, their stats will automatically increase if you upgrade the Town Hall.
 * The spell essentially serves as a much more powerful Lightning Spell with a larger damage radius.