When you use an enchanter to double damage minions take, with piercing shot it will deal double damage to the minion but the excess damage remains the same. Excess damage should do all the calculations on the minion rather than using the face. Spell damage worls like normal though.
Piercing Shot chooses how to split the damage before the damage is actually dealt. It doesn’t know (or care) that the minion is going to take double damage.
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Then it should be reworded to say if the minion dies split the damage, i just spent dust to craft cards that don’t work as their text reads.
This occurs because damage modifiers like artificer or enchanter are calculated through the minion and not the spell itself. As far as the spell is concerned, it’s doing its original damage. If the minion said excess damage goes to the hero, then it would calculate the way you thought it would. The only way to increase face damage is to use spell damage and not effects like enchanter or artificer. The cards work as their text read.
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The card says “minions take double damage”, not “spells do double damage”. It does exactly what the card says.
So I hit a 1hp minion for 12 damage and excess goes to the hero but it deals 5 excess because it’s changed modifiers. That is not how it’s worded…
Minions take double damage therefore there should be more excess damage if a spell targets a minion.
no. read again how it works
I get how it works but that is not how it’s worded and doesn’t make logical sense based on the card text.
Can I bring this argument back in time when Ilgynoth DH was a thing?
No, you’re right, that’s not how it’s worded. It’s also not what happens. First of all, you hit the 1 hp minion for 6 damage, not 12, because the spell only does six damage. And since the minion only needs 1 damage to die, the remaining five go to the face. And now the minion takes double damage (which is double of 1, since it only has 1 hp).
why would you think a card adding bonus damage to minions would add bonus damage to face ?
Listen, word descriptions for things, at some point, are ambiguous. The real issue here is to get used to the way HS’s logic works with how they write sentences for things, and the origins and conclusions of effects and their sequencing. When you play the game long enough, it starts to become second nature, and things like this don’t seem surprising anymore.
Except it doesn’t do double damage either. If I try to shoot piercing shot while having “All minions take double damage from spells” it still does 6 damage. The card doesn’t perform any calculations while the mentioned effect is active.
You’re saying that damage to the minion was not doubled?
Please be as accurate with your situation as possible. How much health did the minion have and how much damage did it take?