I copied a frozen rush minion from my opponent. I lost the opportunity to attack (because the minion was frozen). But it did not unfreeze at the end of the turn.
Bonus question: what happens when a windfury minion freezes after its first attack?
Did your opponent still have attackable minions on the board when your turn ended?
OP said that they copied a frozen minion from their opponent, so there clearly was a frozen minion on the opponent side. The copy could have attacked using the rush ability, and should have unfrozen.
Please provide as much details as you can about the board state. Ideally post a link to a replay of the game, if you play with a tracker, or some screenshots if you took them when this interaction happened. Every detail of board and game state at the moment this happened can be relevant for Blizzard to investigate what caused this to happen.
It unfreezes once you end your turn, since it has missed an attack that turn.
No, I killed them all. But anyways, somewhere within my turn, I could have attacked with the rush minion if it was not frozen. I see this as a “missed attack”, isn’t it?
I’m guessing this is the reason.
A newly summoned rush minion can only attack other minions. At the end of your turn there were no minions it could have attacked, so the game decided that it didn’t lose an attack.
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Then you didn’t miss an attack…
Freeze does its check at the end of the turn. Rush minions cannot attack if your opponent has no minions. So when your end of turn rolls around, there are no minions, thus Rush is not active, therefore there is no attack to miss.
Ok, i see your point. The game sees if my frozen minion “can attack” only at the end of the turn. If it can, the minion unfreezes. The game does not see if it “could have attacked” during the turn. What if my opponent had a stealthed minion? Would my minion unfreeze?
No, because it could not have attacked that minion.
Ah, I have another example: a frozen minion with 0 attack can never attack. Nevertheless, it is unfrozen at the end of the turn. Why? Since it can’t attack, it didn’t miss an attack.
Attack value is not taken into account to determine whether or not a minion missed an attack. A 0-attack minion is, in the context of freeze, considered able to attack.