Please change the wording on Casts When Drawn

Baarak Kodobane draws Olgra, Mankrik’s Wife
Soul Fragment: Cast when drawn
Counterspell: When your opponent casts a spell, counter it
Counterspell does not counter Soul Fragment, Olgra, etc
I know you want to keep wording simple in your game, but these three things CANNOT coexist logically.
Casts When Drawn says nothing about how it replaces itself with a draw. It also works counterintuitively with Skull of Gul’dan (nonsensically based on these other interactions)

Also, “give a minion Divine Shield” should be “Give another minion” along with every other card like it. These nuances are making HS a PITA to learn, and this is coming from a World class card player and L2 mtg Judge switching to hearthstone

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Counterspell doesn’t counter cast-when-drawn cards because it’s not your opponent casting the spell, but the spell itself (same when a minion casts a spell).

As for Skull of Gul’dan, do you mean you would rather end up with only one new card in your hand when you draw two cast-when-drawn cards?

Also, battlecries are effects that happen when you play a minion. They happen before the minion is on the board, so “Give another minion” would be redundant because you can’t target that minion since it’s not on the board yet.

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Thank you for the Battlecry description- I did not know that.

If Casts-when-drawn replaces itself after a draw, then the card that replaces it should have the -3 cost.

The spell casting itself actually solves a lot of issues for me. I had NO idea it worked like that.

I feel like these issues would be solved if the cards actually described what they did when you hovered them. Thank you for the clarifications, though.

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No it shouldn’t because the new card is drawn by the cast-when-drawn card, not the initial spell.

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