Alright I wasn’t gonna complain but after thoroughly experimenting and recreating the situation a few times I gotta mention something. The bug in question initially appeared to be A. F. Kay not triggering on the summoned Imps from Sargearas’s portal the turn they come out sometimes but not all the time.
From my extensive testing it appears that upgrading the Imps with sargearas’s Legion Invasion ability seemed to make A. F. Kay ignore them as if Sargearas’s “attack” was shared among them. The other two abilities didn’t show this issue.
Even stranger, when I did the ability and removed Sargearas and played A. F. Kay all in the same turn she buffed the imps when they came out, suggesting that the problem is indeed Sargearas’s fault. But when I repeated the results but played A.F. Kay to the right of the Portal, I heard A. F. Kay’s voiceline trigger before the imps spawn voiceline, suggesting that A. F. Kay was trying to buff at the end of the turn, but her priorites seemed to have been told to trigger before the portal’s end of turn effect. Unknown how the bug happens when multiple instances of A. F. Kay are present on the board.
Did you consistently play AFK after playing Sargeras ?
Yeah, I usually don’t drop her until after I’ve did the Twisting Nether ability or the Legion Invasion ability, and it wasn’t until after the last patch that I started getting inconsistent Afkay at all,
but I will admit that I don’t remember ever playing her to the right of the portal prior to the patch, I usually try placing her to the left of Sargearas out of habit, it wasn’t until I was doing the “What if I removed him after casting an ability” idea that I placed her to the right of the portal and discovered the anomaly in the voiceline order, which muddled all the data I had collected.
What side of the portal do you put her on, order of operations is left to right
So if she is to the left of the portal no imp summons gets buffed
But if she is to the right of the portal, the imps should be buffed
that’s only true for battlegrounds
Order of operations in Hearthstone is oldest summoned to newest summoned
sorry fuzzy, thats only bg’s
but i went ahead and tested it just in case, and it does not work that way
I’m not 100% certain on this yet but it might be based off of order the cards were played. Ex. A F Kay already alive and waiting to resolve, then portal resolves.
Either that or this is a feature not a bug and the Imps come flying in fist first through the portal sometimes instead of head first (or some semantics like that)
Update: Yeah it seems A F kay being alive before the portal opened was what caused it. Oh well, she’s more of a win harder tool anyway if I’m waiting to be dropping her with Sargearas.