Bug or not? Battlecry mercenaries don't count towards weekly

Bug Report
1

New week just started on the Asian server. One of my weekly quests is “Play 50 battlecry cards.” I just completed a heroic bounty with the following team:

Murloc Holmes with Trusty Sidekick 2
Prince Malchezaar with Parrying Blade 4
C’thun with Hearth of C’Thun 3
Captain Hooktusk with Captain’s Pride 4
Nemsy Necrofizzle
Yogg-Saron with Awakening Roar 3

Every mercenary on the team had a battlecry, yet after the bounty, I’m still shown at 0 battlecries (though I did oddly complete a daily quest for 10 odd-cost cards). So should these be counting or not?

Update: Apparently mercenaries summons with battlecries do work strangely. I swapped out Prince Malchezaar for Genn Greymane for a new bounty and I’m at 1 out of 50 after using Beastly Beauty.

2

Huh weird. I would’ve expected that only battlecries from actual hearthstone counted.

3

Yes, mercs with battlecries do not count, but their abilities with battlecries do.

The easiest one to farm this weekly quest with is probably Drek’Thar.

As for whether this behaviour is a bug or not, I cannot say definitively — however, I do confirm your observations, as already said.

PS

Did you know about the tricks of completing daily quests in Mercenaries? See these, for example: Blizzard can you please STOP FORCING Mercenaries! - #8 by SparkyElf-2852, Questing Emote Suggestion - #11 by SparkyElf-2852 (and the video linked there).