Lightborn Cariel and Goru Mightree

[Machadogps-1982]

So, here’s the explanation:

• Goru has a text that says that all Treants have +1/+1 for the rest of the game. Cariel has literally the same text, but +2/+2 for Silver Hand Recruits.

• When someone uses Lord Barov on treants with the Goru buff, they get set to two health (1 for barov and +1 for the goru buff). Yet, when the same thing happens to the Silver Hand Recruits from Cariel, they are just set to 1 Health. The same thing happens to Soul Mirror, where Treants from Goru when stolen to the opposite side, lose the buff and yours are kept. Silver Hand Recruits stolen by the Soul Mirror keep the buff, when they aren’t even yours.

TLDR: It seems that the Buff from Lightborn Cariel that the Silver Hand Recruits receive is not an aura, but rather a simple buff, while Goru has the same text and works differently.

[shv-3926]

Yeah, it’s very likely a bug.

Also encountered this when I played Lightborn Cariel followed by Lord Barov. Expected the Silverhand Recruits on the board to be 3/3, but they were 3/1 instead.

Lightborn Cariel’s effect is contiuous, while Lord Barov’s effect is a one-shot, so Cariel’s effect should have priority (apply after Barov’s effect).

Also see:

Patch 22.0 Card Effect Priority Update

With Patch 22.0, we did a sweeping review in order to bring more cards into alignment with the general rules about priority order when card effects conflict with each other. That general order is the same as before: Cards referencing their own properties (e.g. Eye Beam) take priority over cards referencing other cards’ properties continuously (e.g. Taintheart Tormentor), which then take priority over cards referencing other cards’ properties in a single instance (e.g. Freezing Trap). For many …

I also recall using Goru the Mightree in the past and getting the expected results, unlike Cariel.