Lord Slitherspear, Enough of this Trash bug

Enough of this Trash states “Destroy a minion without triggering its deathrattle” but when I click it it keeps saying "You can’t play that without a target "even though I have Sylvanas on my team (with her death rattle) and am facing Razormane Raider, Razorboar (neutral), and Razormane Beastmaster

I have four potential targets (they all have deathrattles) and yet this message comes up.

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You can only destroy minions with it (which is a keyword for anything you summon during the fight), not mercenaries.

“Minion is a card type in Mercenaries. Minions usually appear as summoned from abilities. Minions can be considered as a mercenary without a role.” - Hearthstone wiki.

Razorboar has no role and has a deathrattle. Usually doesn’t mean always. Per the text the Enough of this Trash should work on Razorboar but it doesn’t

You can’t use it on enemies, only your own minions.

this actually isn’t true as you can use it on cookie’s summons which act as enemies as made obivious by their being granted attack (and used to attack) and added deathrattes during the dragonbone golem fight. perhaps you can’t destroy them during the draonbone golem fight if they have attack though? buggy, convoluted game is buggy and convoluted, go figure!

minions are gray is the simplest way to put it. I would try using it on enemy minions perhaps in felwood for testing.

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The ability isn’t actually bugged, as Razorboar isn’t a minion, but rather, a neutral mercenary. In Mercenaries, a “minion” is a unit that, when hovered over, shows the appearance of a regular card, with a speed indicator in the corner where the mana cost normally is, rather than the usual mercenary portrait of “no number in the top-left corner”.

Furthermore, Enough of this Trash can target a minion without a deathrattle - the targeting requirement is just “a minion”, not necessarily “a minion with deathrattle”.

Regarding the “The ability isn’t actually bugged, as Razorboar isn’t a minion, but rather, a neutral mercenary.” statement " Minions can be considered as a mercenary without a role. ” It is akin to squares and rectangles - all squares are rectangles (Minions are mercenaries) but not all rectangles are squares (mercenary with a role ie Fighter, Protector, or Caster).

Actually, minions aren’t mercenaries. Prior to its change, Varden’s original Flurry ability stated that it dealt damage to three enemy mercenaries. On a fight like Garr, who summons minions repeatedly, Flurry would never hit them, only Garr himself. It would just hit Garr once, and then stop. If an effect specifically mentions only targeting a mercenary, it won’t hit a minion.

“Can be considered” is not the same as “are”. It’s like saying that a square can be considered as two triangles, but that doesn’t make it two triangles.

This doesn’t mean that all mercenaries without roles are minions.

Your squares and rectangles analogy is actually accurate, but not for the reason you think it is. All minions are characters without roles, but not all characters without roles are minions.

The fact is that none of the characters in that encounter are intended to be minions.

Adding to this topic rather than creating a new one.

Apparently the Dark-Depths Feastbringer’s Feeding Frenzy ability, “Summon a random 12/12 Darkshore Murloc”, does not count as summoning minions.

Looking at the previous discussion, the conclusion that Enough of this Trash only works on summoned role-less targets seems to be correct. But the wording is incredibly unclear. Enough of this Trash works on Slitherspear’s own nagas, the wording for which (“Summon a 9/16 Naga with Divine Shield and Rush”) is functionally identical to the Feastbringer’s summon ability, nothing in there to tell the player “this is a minion” or in the Feastbringer’s ability to tell the player “this is not a minion”. Instead the player has to try to remember which specific summon abilities produce role-less summons, and which produce red, green, or blue summons.

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It should read “Destroy a summoned portrait to deal its’ attack on all enemies.”

add mend “without triggering enemy deathrattles.” Does this have a multiple, like destroy a summoned, a neighboring summoned, or both neighboring summoned?
I found out it doesn’t have a multiple, but it should. Because, what the purpose of avoiding one deathrattle, if all the others are triggered when it does damage.