Just got out of a wild match on mobile (android tablet) and had a priest opponent use confuse on a board of small astral automatons and they gained a ton of stats rather than swapping attack/health.
I believe the spell “Confuse” is back end coding as destroying and resummoning the minions with the swapped stats and is proccing the astral automatons effect.
they are going from base stats of 1/1 to whatever their new statline is
then their ability gives them more stats
clever use of game mechanics
ive seen this happen in battlegrounds
I’ve seen Void Ripper used in a similar way in MarkMcKz’s videos
No, that is not the explanation of why that happened.
Astral Automaton has a “permanent aura”. These have been in the game since its first verion (e.g. Stormwind Champion). Yet they continue to confuse people.
They way permanent auras work is that they are always applied last. So if you have three Astral Automatons (and none played before that), then they are all 3/3 - base stats of 1/1, plus 2/2 for two “other” Astral Automatons. Play Equality, their health is reduced to 1, the permanent aura is re-applied, and they are once more 3/3.
The interaction with stat swappers is interesting. The health and attack swap - in this case that is invisible, because they are the same. But that overwrites their base stats. So now they are considered “natural” 3/3s. And then the permanent aura gives a +2/+2 for two other Astral Automatons played, to get them to 5/5.
(The trick is not new though - experienced players have for years already been using this trick to give their minions +1/+1 when a Stormwind Champion was in play)
No, not clever use of game mechanics, a bug.
Confuse does NOT summon new automotons, it swaps stats. Its a bug.
No new automatons were summoned, the condition for automatons to increase their stats, only their stats were swapped.
Therefore it can only be considered a bug.
No, no new automaton was summoned. Its NOT like your Stormwind Champ analogy, because the conditions are not the same.
Automatons gain stats when a NEW one is summoned, not when their stats are changed. Its not a new minion, just one that has had its stats swapped.
New automaton is not needed. Nothing in card text says that buff is only applied when new automaton is summoned.
Has +1/+1 for each other Astral Automaton you’ve summoned this game.