They did it again, they made a new not explained keyword which is definitely not confusing at all, unlike echo
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I’m pretty sure it means destroys. Seems pretty straightforward. Isn’t really much else it could be.
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If course it means destroy, but it’s not in the hearthstone verbiage so it could be confusing to some.
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if it just means destroy, why not just say poisonous?
It feels like they are just adding keywords for the hell of it at this point.
Heres the card in question
I dont see how anyone could mistake this as anything else
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I see. Yeah, there’s no way to confuse that card. But really, it should just say “destroy” and use the least amount of new words as possible for the sake of consistency.
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I don’t know if a shredded minion could be resurrected; cards destroyed by ticketus and gnomferatu aren’t, but who am I to say how shred works?
For gigaphyn I wrongly guessed how “spit out” was going to work, so I won’t assume that a shredded minion will behave like a burnt card
IIRC, there was once a lock card that could give back cards that you’ve discarded this game.
“Shredded” isn’t discard though, and we know how discard decks have not been too consistent.
They could explore the deck theme, but I doubt it will be the first expansion DKs are released.
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I think it’s obvious that it means destroy but it’s using the word shred to go with the card art… and it’s very likely the animation is a cool shredding one.
It’s not a keyword.
However, devour wasn’t either and it meant something completely different so I get the complaint.
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Does shredding a minion give a corpse (from the minion dying, not from the card’s effect generating corpses), like how destroying a minion gives a corpse?
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So does this mean it permanently destroys cards from your collection? I mean that’s what shredding a card in real life card games does.
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Weird how shred isnt bolded
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its not a keyword, its a word that is used for flavor. The meaning is obvious.
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If I shred a card, I would have multiple pieces of it. So maybe when a minion is shredded, it’s broken down into little tokens or corpses.
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How obvious were previously “fake keywords” like this one?
Devour and spit them out were anything but obvious; there were many threads about “devour is triggering deathrattles” and “spit them out doesn’t keep buffs”, which led me to believe it wasn’t that obvious.
I don’t have a particular problem with that if it was clear how the mechanic works, or if they didn’t say that they don’t reuse old keywords like echo for “just one card” because “it would be confusing to a new player”, even if there is a tooltip that explain how it works.
Quality of life in this game is getting lower and lower as time goes on, many bugs are introduced that are subtle and you can’t predict them (did you know akama has permanent stealth but it loses it when it attacks?).
If anything, adding more “obvious wording” which was never used before and jt isn’t clearly explained will lead to a lot of confusion in the future.
Would it be harder for a new player (or old one who comes back to the game) to learn an old keyword like echo, or to guess what “shred, spit them out, devour” mean?
If I was a new player, I’m assuming I’d have to look up what “shred” meant because it’s not on other cards.
As long term players we have good ideas about what these non keywords mean, but new or returning players may have to do some digging.
In essence, a card that says “shred” a minion could also say this:
"Battlecry: Flapdoodle your opponents 3rd minion. If it dies, put it in the pile. If it survives, snickerbop it back to the top, and add 4 items to the amalgam.
Deathrattle: Undo the previous doing.
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I know forum IQ is not that high, but you want to be more troll than the average right?.. i guess…?
It’s obvious that shred means “destroy to create another resource”.
Corpses are a resource.
They (I assume) are generated when another minion is destroyed, or “shredded”.
“It’s obvious”.
Right, everyone had no doubt about how “devour” and “spit them out” were going to work.
What I am saying is that this trend is just making the game less consistent and more prone to misunderstanding for no upsides.
There is no need to use the word “shred” when they could have used “destroy” instead.
Maybe it’s hard to understand why it’s not good that they are making this, but I am not a troll whatsoever.
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Agree. For the record, this user could have been referring to my hyperbolic post regarding a card I created a text box for…which says a lot and nothing at the same time.
In any event, the forum IQ is fine, and only drops when users such as that chime in with nothing to say.
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