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ITT: Things that don't work like you thought

As a longtime MTG player there are a LOT of things that works in different ways and I'd like to have a thread to list a lot of them.

In this list you won't find things like "attacking works differently", but some things that are not told, but work in a completely different way than in MTG. To start it off, here's a few:

• When an opponent takes control of one of your minions, he does not just take control of it, he becomes the owner of it. This means that using a card like Sap will return it to his hand instead of yours. Correction Might actually destroy the minion. -many sources.

• If a minion has "Cannot be the target of spells or hero powers" does not mean that the opposing hero cannot attack it if he wields a weapon.

• A minion with Stealth and Taunt cannot be attacked, you may attack any other target if there are no other taunters.

• If you cast humility (change the attack of a minion to 1) on a lightspawn, it doesn't do anything as the lightspawn's attack is always equal to its health. -by /u/ampersand55

• If you have 10 cards in your hand and would acquire one more, the newest card will be instantly discarded.

• If a minion created by a battlecry or other effect ("token") is returned to a player's hand, it may be played just like a normal card.

• If your enemy uses misdirection trap and your minion attacks your hero with a weapon equipped. Your minion will take damage equal to your weapons damage. -by /u/_MRAL_

• Minion cards are not spells. This shouldn't probably even be here, but the lack of this information wrecked my first Arena game. The Coin counts as a spell.

• Silencing will take away ALL abilities, stat changes and effects that are in effect before the silence is applied, i.e. Earth Shock (Silence target minion then deal 1 damage to it) targeted on a minion with health larger than 2 that has been Equalized (Health becomes 1) will not kill the target. -by /u/ohstylo

• If you silence a faceless manipulator it does not revert to its default form. -by /u/abuttfarting

• Divine Shield prevents the first damage that is dealt, it does not prevent any further effects from the damage source, except for "deathtouch" from cards like Cobra. -by /u/Ardailec & /u/Massacrul Correction Divine Shield prevents all effects that are tied to dealing that certain damage that has been dealt. -by /u/J0llyR0dger

• Eye for an eye deals the damage you take to the enemy hero. But since arcane missiles deals the damage one at a time, the only damage dealt to the enemy is 1. -by /u/xorenadosuke

• Bouncing a Polymorphed / Hexed minion will give you back that actual Sheep / Frog, not the original card. -by /u/Scisyhp

• The description for stealth is actually incorrect, stealthed minions can't be targeted by your opponent; you can still target your own stealthed minions. -by /u/k7rnt

• If a minion has Blessing of Wisdom, the player who played the Blessing will always be the one drawing cards, even if it gets mind controlled. -by /u/chakazulu1

• If you silence a minion that has equality on it, it returns to full life. -by /u/BadgerBadger8264

• Health, this deserves a category of it's own, because the layers work in a way that even a L3 judge won't know what happens.

• How Health / Toughness and damage works together is an interesting one. If you give +2 health to a minion with damage on it, it will still be damaged. However, if you double a minions health and it has damage on it, it just doubles the damaged health. Giving +health does not count as healing.

• If you have a 2/3 and it gets damaged by one. It becomes a 2/3 with one damage. Then, you give it a +1/+1 buff, so it becomes a 3/4 with one damage. If it gets silenced, the +1/+1 gets removed. You would think it goes back down to a 2/3 with one damage, but it actually becomes a 2/3 with NO damage. This is because when max health decreases, missing HP has priority over remaining HP. -by /u/WoodyTrombone & /u/imgnakikurbt

• Say you have a 2/3 and it gets damaged by 1 so it becomes a 2/2. Then it gets a +1/+1 buff so it becomes a 3/3. If it gets silenced, the 1/1 gets removed. You would think it goes back down to a 2/2 but it actually becomes a 2/3. The +1/+1 'heals' it and increased the max health by 1. -by /u/Sumadin

• If you have a 2/7 and a blood imp (makes the creature 2/8), and you swap it's attack and damage, you get a 8/3. -by /u/poeticmatter

I will keep updating this thread if I think of other things or if people comment.

EDIT: I'm back again, will keep updating the thread. @ 16:00 GMT.

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