Good evening, I was playing battlegrounds mode and came across a bug in duo mode while playing as Maiev in combination with Xyrella. When Maiev’s buddy battlecry is triggered, Xyrella’s ability not only takes the minion, but also turns it gold. While playing further, I noticed that Maiev’s ability now not only took a minion into her hand with gold (as it should), but this miniom does not “sleep”; it can immediately be placed on the battlefield when it should have been “sleeping” for one turn.
This isn’t a bug, this is intended. I saw this interaction on day 1 of the buddy release and used it quite often but didn’t tell anyone just in case it became too powerful.
Maiev’s buddy can make other hero’s power make any minion golden. So you can give it to Shudderwock, and Shudderwock gets infinite golden minions.
I’ve never seen anyone ever talk about it so I assume it’s not as broken as I originally thought it would be.
Sleeping doesn’t occur with the other hero’s hero power because there is no sleeping effect originally.