Sylvanas, The Accused and immune minions

I was in a standard game up against a tony druid. He dropped a big board and Jailer, and my soulstealer, which reads Battlecry: Destory all minions was able to clear it, even through the jailer immune status.

A few turns later, I tried playing an uninfused Sylvanas, the accused, whose battlecry also states: Battlecry: Destroy an enemy minion.

Both cards have the wording “destroy”, yet when I dropped sylvanas, the sound effect and animation of not being able to target a minion with a battlecry triggered, and she was played on board without the opportunity to select an enemy immune minion.

Is this working as intended?

Yes, this is intended.

You could destroy the minions because the battlecry targeted the battlefield and not the minions.

But you could not destroy a minion with Sylvanas because her battlecry requires you to select a target. Immune minions can’t be targeted directly therefore she entered the battlefield with no effect.

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Immune prevents damage and targeting. It does not prevent untargeted destruction, such as from Twisting Nether.

Sylvanas didn’t work because her effect is targeted.

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Immune is pretty clear.

The only way to get around Immune is an AOE effect such as whirlpool

Immune is consistant, but not clear.
The tooltip only reads that an immune character can’t be damaged, not that it cannot be targeted by the opponent.
Immune is basically permanent divine shield + permanent stealth, but the stealth is not advertised

Well if you look up the definition of immune…

  1. protected or exempt, especially from an obligation or the effects of something.

“they are immune from legal action”

pretty clear to me.

The in game tooltip states that the minion can’t take damage, nothing more
If you use definitions to assume the meaning of specific keywords you can assume many different things, including ones not matching with the actual result in the game

In your case, why can an immune minion can be killed by twisting nether if it is protected from effects ?

That would be a silly thing to do, because the in-game definition is DIFFERENT.

Must have been a while since you’ve seen the tooltip in game. For a while now, hovering over ‘immune’ does say that it is untargetable.

I thought that too, but I’m looking at my collection right now and the tooltip only says “can’t be damaged”. It does not say untargetable.

Huh, how weird. There was a period of time it did say can’t be targeted.

But neither in a match, nor in the collection, does that description show anymore. Wonder why they changed it.

I remember having a forum discussion a while back and someone showed a screenshot of the in-game text and it said can’t be targeted.

Unless I somehow mandela-effected that memory or something. lol

When I say something like that I always double check it in the official card library of the official site