Why isn't Starship Piece a minion type?

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It’s like those Titans, they got bold font in the text as a keyword, but not minion types.
It’s quite weird, isn’t it?

Keywords describe a feature of a minion, and such feature needs a paragraph to explain.
Both Titan and Starship are really better understood as a minion type by the name of it.
I think it’s a bad practice to call them Titan or Starship when naming the keyword.
A better way is to call the feature by the feature, for example:
Instead of Titan, call it “casting” or “spell bearing”,
Instead of Starship Piece, call it “assembling” or “parts”.
Just avoid using a minion type to label a keyword.

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I don’t know about the name itself, but it is not technically straightforward to create a new minion tribe,

some cards interact with the tribes even if the tribe is different every time.

E.g. “buff this and draw a minion of the same type”, would now change.

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but
it is a minion type

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Do you mean it’s own tribe?

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Because it would be a really terrible idea to have Adaptive Amalgam reshuffle back in fully-built Starships.

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he said type not tribe and star pieces are a minion type

minion types in hearthstone right now

taunt
rush
charge
spell damage
deathrattle

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Trusty Companion says type and means what you call tribe.

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Having a keyword is not what type means. There are a lot of keywords. Elusive, for example. “Taunt minion” just means “minion with Taunt on the original card.” There is no typing beyond that.

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What do you mean? You can do that now already.

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Well, it’s confusing. I think I meant minion tribes.
Starship Piece or Titan should belong to the group of Beast, Undead, mech, etc.

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elusive doesnt have any cards to use with it

taunt rush spell damage and deathrattle all have at least one card for support to draw /resurrect / change cost /buff stats (only mentioned charge because of the meme nerf) they have support arent those "supported minion types "?

pieces have exodar but they need more …i hoping for a tutor on the mini set

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That doesn’t make the others a type. The group you are referring to doesn’t exist, it could expand or contract based on what cards are legal in the format.

If the cards that reference taunt minions rotate out, are taunt minions no longer a type?

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ive always thought it was weird that starship pieces and starships themselves are not mech

i can understand if zerg has a beast starship

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I think Mechs are supposed to be machines that have the ability to move of their own accord. The starships aren’t “alive” and need something else to make them move.

Similar to why Ship’s Cannon isn’t a mech, it’s a device that needs something else to operate it.

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Warcraft is a magical universe franchise. Anything goes. Also in sci-fi like Farscape’s “alive” ships was a norm.

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Except Piloted Shredder and Sky Golem. They, for some reason, require something else to operate it…

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