Battlegrounds: Why do discovery battlecries trigger normal?

With the Snicker-Snack ability*
I get why it gives you a random card if something like that procs in-combat, but if I play “discover a murloc” I get to discover one. If I then trigger that card’s battlecry, (in the same area, recruitment) it just gives me a random one too.
Why? Abilities (especially discover) should trigger normally with this ability.

Any battle-cries triggered by not playing them have always been random.

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Didnt ask how long this had been a thing.
Asked why.
Combat is all automated, picking stuff mid-combat would be weird, but why make the choice random/automated if its triggered in the recruit area

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Because any battle-cries triggered by not playing them have always been random. It was this way before BG’s so there needs to be consistency.

You can only pick the target if you play the card. Any other trigger is random.

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The only precedent that I know of where an auto-played card lets you choose is when djinni of zephyrs recasts a spell that discovers or adapts (and even then, only on the first one if you have multiple djinnis).

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