It will! If Reckless Apprentice were a neutral card, it would say something like “trigger your hero power for each enemy, targeting each enemy if possible”
It will work with any hero power. If you are priest you can heal all of your enemies or damage them if you are in shadow form. If you are warlock you will deal two damage to yourself and draw a card for each enemy. If you’ve played a quest that changes your hero power you can do things like give your minions +2 attack for each enemy with Pharaoh’s Warmask
This is like the milionth iteration of “mommy they hit me with Hunter HP / reckless apprentice”.
Thats a combo thats been broken since the apprentice came out with Dawngrasp, however 'tis not that easy to pull it off, same like Coldara Drake and Shadow Anduin.
And using a HP that only hits the enemy’s face to target a minion (a la a little known and rarely mentioned card called Steamweedle Sniper) is completely nonsensical too I hazard. What does it mean for you to ‘target a minion’ with an effect that explicitly states that it only goes face? Clearly Steamweedle sniper is programmed wrong, because as we all know, the hunter hero power only hits the enemy’s face, and its text stating that the hero power will do something else doesn’t change that fact. Steamweedle Sniper is absolute nonsense. It literally contradicts what we all know the hero power does and if anyone would expect their hero power to magically hit an enemy just because they targeted it they are about as dumb as someone expecting their hero power to hit the thing that its being ‘fired at’.
As stated earlier, your response is willfully intellectually dishonest. You know full well that the hunter hero power can be used to hit minions when cards say that it can. if a card says fire your hero power at a minion it makes as much sense for what is written on the card to happen as it does for a hero power that says “fire at the enemy hero” to target a minion.
I’m not confused. Your example is a poor reasoning/analogy/whatever you want to call it. It’s just bad.
What’s crazy is that they all keep telling us what we already understand. Like, I get the inconsistent, convoluted logic as to why it works that way, but ultimately, it doesn’t match the card text and which interaction ultimately happens is arbitrary, so it should just do as the card says. There’s no reason why it wouldn’t. So, either change the text or make the effect reflect it. Simple.
actually, i think they’ve been the closest to persuading me. I still disagree, but what they described is definitely the reason the card does what it does.
That being said, they have also engaged in intellectual dishonesty (stating they would expect a hunter class card with the text ‘Battlecy: Fire your Hero Power at each enemy.’ to hit face eight times.) and are also condescending (good and funny) while also being wrong (bad and cringe), so all the more power to you.
Everything has some form of operational checks. I think because this is automated they assume it wouldn’t work that way in some form or not if it were paper??? It could be random in BGs, but that’d ruin a lot of cards. It wasn’t done as some conscious thing to follow the consistency of having “operations” in the game. And even if it were, it’d have nothing to do with this interaction. There’s no reason for the card not to work. There’s no standard of operations going on here. We know Hero Powers can change how they interact. It just doesn’t work the way the card reads because of an oversight do to it being a mage card. I get that it wasn’t programmed to interact with the Hunter Hero Power properly, but this wasn’t some conscious decision. It’s because when you click on the Hunter HP it auto fires at the Hero. Simple as that.
Mage and Priest are the only Hero Powers that you can essentially “take back.” They don’t auto happen, they must target, so they must be programmed differently.
So, yes, the card is NOT working as described/intended. It’s lazy of them to either not change the text or change the interaction.
Battlecry: Fire your Hero Power once for each enemy (targeting them if possible)
“Them” clearly refers to the text each enemy. Meaning that the full reading without the generalising pronoun would be Battlecry: Fire your Hero Power once for each enemy (targeting each enemy if possible)
You are telling me, in all seriousness, you look at that, and your first thought is “Which enemy??? you meanz it will fire at randumz? cannot comprehend! inconceivable!!!”
The absolute reach.
If you have to pretend you are incapable of understanding basic English in order to make a counter-argument, you should definitely not be making a counter-argument, especially in arguments of semantic interpretation. And no, I will not watch my tone!
Either the hero power should target each enemy individually, or it should fire face for each enemy (2 minions = 6 dmg face)
Both would be acceptable based on the card text
What the card actually does? Absolutely unacceptable. Total bait, which screwed at least one of your arena runs before you realized it actually doesn’t do anything at all.
Looks like the topic is dead now, so for my final act, I leave you with this.
You walk into a crazy cat lady’s house. You shoot her in the face once, and then an additional time for each cat you see. You then leave the house muttering “I did it, yeah. I shot her, and I shot all her cats too, just like I said I would.”
On a scale of 1-10, how mentally deranged are you?
A 5, because apparently she was crazy too. 0 because no more cats will be forced into 1 house, 10 because you thought you shot the cats yo, so average of 5.
Most hunter’s hero powers are bows. And as every self respecting critic of Dragon Lance novels knows, you don’t fire arrows. So the real question is whether reckless apprentice should do anything at all.
Loose! Loose! Loose! I don’t think that’s even historically accurate. From what I’ve learned, you normally wouldn’t volley like that. You just shoot as many as you can. No point to having it be all at once aside from maybe the first wave.
It’s harder to block a volley and volleys have a higher impact on morale. That said, warfare tends to descend into chaos, unless troops are highly trained and disciplined.