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New Card - Spirit of the Rhino


  • Liv

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    Would this work with Boomship? "Rush minions" would seem to refer minions that have rush on the card, not minions that are granted rush with an effect. Like N'Zoth ressurects your deathrattle minions, but not minions you've given a deathrattle with something like Ancestral Spirit.

    This works with Boomship.

  • Liv

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    would it work with dr. boom? I know hearthstone can be pretty weird about that. Might have another situation where they mean rush keyword minions and not every minion with rush

    Yes, it works with Dr. Boom.

  • Liv

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    I wonder how will it work with [[rocket boots]]

    If the minion you cast Rocket Boots on was summoned that turn, it will be Immune.

  • Liv

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    Yay! Does it work with any way to give a minion rush, e.g the Boomship or Rocket boots?

    Yeah, as long as they were summoned this turn. :)

  • Josh Durica

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    u/jdurica can you confirm this works with Dr. Boom and Boomship?

    Yes it works!

  • Liv

    Posted 7 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    So is there a mechanical difference between "minions with Rush" and "Rush minions"? Why does this work with minions that gain Rush via an effect, but Warsong Commander doesn't work with minions that gain Charge?

    Just asking for rules clarification, because I assumed this would only work with cards that have Rush actually printed on them, similar to how N'Zoth and Hadronox only resurrect minions that have Deathrattle and Taunt printed on them.

    I'll bring up to the team about Warsong Commander not working with cards like Warrior's Charge. Sounds like a bug to me. It works with Spiked Hogrider, so I don't see why it shouldn't work.

    Cards that affect minions on the Battlefield like Strongshell Scavenger or Rallying Blade care about their current state. If a Taunt minion or Divine Shield minion loses their status as a Taunt or Divine Shield, they no longer benefit from cards like that. Because you can see the minions on board, it makes sense that the cards do or don't affect them because you can see they have those keywords.

    When you start digging into dead minions we care about the base minion, partially because you can't see them anymore. Tracking things you can't see kind of sucks, so keeping it simple is nice. Balance also plays into it - when you play Hadronox or N'Zoth, we can know the limit to what people can resummon and we can cost it appropriately. Druid being able to give any minion Taunt with Mark of the Wild blows that out and makes it so we have to make a weaker card, to account for all the extreme edge cases. We'd rather give you a powerful card that you can use. Granted, we still make specific corner case cards like Star Aligner, because that appeals to certain players, so that doesn't mean we're against making weird cards that make you stretch. :)




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