Wildcard

A Wildcard is a unique type of variant, appearing in both the original Viva Piñata and Trouble in Paradise.

Wildcard variants are independent from the usual color variants, meaning a piñata can have one, both or neither type of variant.

Mechanics

The method to gain a wildcard is very different between the two games.

Viva Piñata

A wildcard can randomly hatch from an egg while romancing piñatas. The chance of a wildcard is initially one in 10,000 (0.01%) but increases with the number of times a wildcard is romanced.

In-game testing needed. Reason: check if variantScore is unique to species or parents, or something else.

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

If there are 7 or more of the same species in the garden, romancing that species will trigger a special, harder version of the romancing minigame. If completed, this minigame will cause the resulting egg to hatch as a wildcard.

In this game, there are 3 possible wildcards. While playing alone, only one type of wildcard can be hatched (randomly selected from the first two possible variants). The other must be received from another player. Romancing two different wildcards and completing the wildcard version of the romancing minigame will produce the third wildcard. (todo: test this)