As a mage, i played theotar and gave my opponent a reckless apprentice. Later, they played Brukan and then played the apprentice when they had the hero power that deals 6 damage to the enemy hero when i had a full board. The hero power acted like it was shooting the minions but did no damage even though it showed the animation, then shot me once for each minion dealing over 30 damage in one turn. This is most definitely a bug. The wording on reckless apprentice and the wording on brukan’s hero power both lead me to believe this. Brukans hero power should not be able to target minioms, and reckless apprentice says fire your hero power AT each minion, NOT once for each minion.
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Not a bug;
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So its not a bug, just bad coding. More proof current devs are talentless hacks.
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Just because something doesn’t work the way you want it to doesn’t make it “bad coding”.
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It doesn’t work the way its worded, thats the worst coding. As an MtG player, this kind of mess up is the most idiotic kind and once again shows idiots are behind the wheel.
well this isnt MTG, if you want that kind of gameplay, go play that game instead
why do you want that stupid wording from MTG to be used in HS? this is not needed.
It works exactly as worded.
Reckless apprentice causes the effect “deal 6 damage to the enemy hero” to be fired at each enemy character. Since the effect damages the enemy hero regardless of the target, the enemy hero recieves the damage.
If you’re going to whine about the interaction then that’s your right, but you shouldn’t pretend it’s because of the wording of the card.
Not really sure how you can think the wording supports the interaction. Pretty much every other card in the game fizzles the effect if the target is invalid, yet this is supposed to be some major exception even though its not worded that way? Reading comprehension on Reckless apprentice, mixed with the history of card interactions tells me this is an exception, and probably exists this way because they couldn’t figure out how to make it work the way it is presented as working. If a rogue uses a Reckless apprentice, it shouldn’t activate their hero power at all. As I said before its the difference between firing a hero power AT each enemy, and once FOR each enemy. Its bad wording.
And the reason i bring up mtg is their card wordings are literal. They are designed to have absolutely zero chance for misinterpretation based on the established and public rules of the game. The only reasonable explanation for this interaction is poor coding, or they worded the card improperly to make the words look better on the card (I feel like this has a lot to do with it.) Don’t act like this is some obvious interaction when basic English says it should not work that way.
You’d been told that your report isn’t a bug. Balance concerns and suggestions belong in a Discussion forum, not here.
I guess with people like you allowing obvious bugs to get written off due to some ambiguous arrogance and completely ignoring the buggy animation I described, Im not surprised this game is as buggy as it is. Keep up the bad work.
Reading this discussion, I find it funny that you mainly disagree on the definition of the word ‚bug‘.
If you had seen the incredibly buggy visual animation that happens along with it, I doubt many would continue to argue this works as intended.
Invocation of Fire CANNOT target anything. It is a Hero Power that simply damages the opposing Hero.
Why am I repeating myself. I’ve already provided a link to where I explained how Reckless Apprentice works.
Lemme karen out a bit;
There 
is no bug here
I do agree that it shouldn’t work the way it does though, they should make it so it only works with hero powers that can target minions
I once saw someone use reckless with the dk uther power
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I have come to terms with the fact that this is not a “bug”, but either poor card wording or poor coding. The visual effects that accompany the card are buggy as heck which was the biggest red flag for me. I also noticed a lot more people than I expected have had this same issue and got caught by surprise because of its wording and past card interactions.
I agree that the Reckless Apprentice card is broken or in need of a fix. I had minions up that said “Can’t be targeted by spells or Hero Powers” and yet the mage power struck all of my untargettable minions.
Why should “Fire your Hero Power at all enemies” both disregard not being able to target minions and do what it did to the mage (fire at him more than once).
The whole point of having untargettable minions is so the hero power cannot do this. But for 4 mana, apparently it can (for a mage).
If Reckless Apprentice is working the way they intended, then it should at least be an EPIC cards and have the cost increased to 6-8 mana. It’s like other travesties rolled out by Blizzard such as the 1-mana Shard of the Naaru replacing the 4 mana Mass Dispel.
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Untargettable means that a player can not select it as a target. Random and aoe effects can still damage them. This is working correctly.
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