Hearthpwn

So I decided to make a hilarious priest deck focused around summoning The Ancient One. I got the dream of playing Blood of The Ancient One and then using Herald Volazj to copy him the next turn, giving me The Ancient One. Clearly my opponent wasn't as amped as I was about getting hit in the face by a 30/30 so he used Shadow Word: Death on it. Thankfully I was holding my trusty Resurrect and seeing as how The Ancient One was the only minion of mine that died, I was guaranteed to have him Resurrect. Instead, one of my Bloods resurrected instead.

This is pretty shifty wording. There is nothing in the Blood's text that says anything about dying (like in Mimiron's Head), so why does it count as a death? I would figure that it would be the same as Hex or Polymorph instead. Pretty huge letdown for me. Blizz really needs to change the wording on the card so that people don't get confused about it in the future.

That's a bug. You should report it.

Is it though? Or just a poor wording?

I personally think you have a case, but since the word "merge" has no technical definition in the game, there's arguably no more reason to consider it a "transform" effect than there is to consider it a "destroy" effect, which is evidently how it's coded.

It's not a bug, it was clarified when Blood of The Ancient One was first released that the 'merging' kills the two Blood of The Ancient Ones, activating effects like Cult Master and, as you mentioned, Resurrect. This is the intended interaction.

Of course, you can still argue that this is unintuitive, and that the wording should be changed, but the effect itself is correct.

Quote from Garlicnerd >>

If a card functions in a way completely counter-intuitive to its wording and in a way that could reasonably effect its play, it's a bug.