Mordresh, Astalor and the secret Reckoning

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Hi together,

i have a question about the interaction about the secret Reckoning from Paladin and the two legendary cards Astalor and Mordresh. Why does Reckoning don’t trigger against Astalor, but on Mordresh? I mean technically both cards deal more than 3 damage, but for some reason Reckoning only counts direct 3+ damage and not splitted 3+ damage. While I agree this sounds as intended, but it feels weird to me why Astalor and probably C’Thun’s damage don’t trigger this secret…

What do you think about this interaction with Astalor and Reckoning?

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It checks for 3+ damage being dealt in a single instance. Astalor dodges it because he deals 1 damage at a time.

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the secret needs the minion to deal 3 damage since astalor deals1 it wont trigger

same reason it wont trigger if a 2 attack minion with windfury attack twice or any minion with attack lower than 3 attacking acrross different turns

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Exactly, but isn’t it odd? Because technically Astalor deals more than 3 damage, just not instant, but over time like C’thun.

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Yeah, it’s a bit odd, but Reckoning specifically needs the damage to be a single instance of 3+

Similarly, the Cariel hero takes full damage from astalor, because she keeps taking 1 instead of 16 at once.

If astalor dealt all of his damage at one time like Denathrius did, Reckoning/Cariel would work. The machine gun effect gets around it because Astalor never dealt more than 1, he just dealt 1 a lot of times.

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Astalor is a piece of crap. Just like everything team 5 lately, they print purposely busted cards, and then act surprised when every deck runs them.
The people of team 5 do not give a toss if this game is playable or not, and apparently neither do the paying customers, as they continue to reward slop.

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Then stop playing.

/20chars

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Worry about yourself, kid.

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I am worrying about myself, the quality of my forum visits declines every time I see one of your posts that only ever complains about Team 5 no matter what the topic of the thread is.

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You poor thing. The trauma must be unbearable.

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Mal’s only very passionate about Hearthstone. If you’d like, however, you should consider ignoring him. You can do this manually in your account settings.

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Or; He could take his own sage advice and not read what I write.
Oh wait: I suppose that does take a measure of free thinking.

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It’s not weird as much as it’s a unwritten quirk of the game.

Frost bolt will leave a Ice Blocked target with 3 HP, while Arcane Missile will leave the same target with one. Repeating damage isn’t the same as full damage.

On that note, greater arcane missile will leave a Ice Blocked target with 3 HP too, because it delivers 3 damage at a time.

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I did within the first few days of joining the forums and can attest to the fact that the place is much better.