Why does roaring applause, (a card that reads: draw a card, repeat for each minion type you control), does not count multi type minions as having multiple types? So if I play murmy, a murloc/undead, then play roaring applause, I would only draw two cards not three, despite having 2 minion types. One man band amalgam also only gets one minion type per minion, rather than multiple from minions with multi types.
These seem pretty minor, but make the cards significantly worse for a class that is already not doing too hot.
Because it only counts as one type when it’s checked because no matter what you tag it, there’s only one minion on the board.
If you had two of them on the board, it would count one as murloc and the other as undead, allowing you to draw three.
An amalgam always counts as only one minion, but it will always be a type you don’t already have.
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Idc really care about amalgam, but that reading for roaring is not how the card reads. I understand how the game is currently reading it; Its more I just want to know why it isn’t doing what the card advertises and whether is it just lazy coding or intentional.
Am I the only one who is questioning it?
Yes.
It doesn’t matter how many types you have on the card, it’s still just one minion and can only be one type of minion for each check.
If you play a card that says give 2/2 to a minion of each type, murmy isn’t getting 4/4.
I bring up the amalgam because if it worked as you described you would basically draw your deck with a 1 cost Mistake on the board.
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Because no one wants a 2 mana draw 7/8 if you control an amalgam.
One type per minion only.
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One way to read the text is it counts “each minion type” you control, so on each minion you count all the tags, what OP wants.
But another way to read it is that it’s each minion type “you control”, so each minion only counts once no matter how many tags that minion has on it.
Easy solution to that is that “all” just actively counts as one minion type.
So if all you have on board is an amalgam roaring should draw like what, 8? And people thougt warlocks catastrophe was busted. Not gonna happen.
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No, the easy solution is every minion can only be counted once, which is what we have, which everyone but you seems to think is fine.
It works this way in BG as well.
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Yeah, cause have 1 draw equal one type box is so particularly complicated and impossible to understand or comprehend. Jesus dude, the way it is currently worded should do that or at the very least change the wording to: Draw a card. Repeat for each minion you control with a different minion type. But I guess that is like one or two too many words.
Except everyone here but you understood how it worked without a diagram.
It’s always worked like this with every card that works off of different minion types, so the fact that this is the first card you have personally encountered that works this way says more about you than about the wording on the card.
Sorry it didn’t refill your hand when you only had one minion on the board, but it doesn’t work that way. Move on and play or don’t play, but move on already.
They have changed card text that was confusing before. Astalor was changed for that very reason.
You are more than welcome to respectfully bring it to Cora or Aleco on Twitter.
They may not have envisioned the text that way. They don’t get many English professors at Blizzard.
It SHOULD read:
“Draw a card for every minion with a unique minion type you control”.
That’s what the effect is, and it’s consistent with other menageie/tribe type effects (like N’zoth).
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