I wonder how this interacts with Mad Scientist. My opponent Frostbolt my scientist, who gets Cat Trick, does the secret activate?
Yes
No it doesn't activate. The spell wasn't played when the secret was in play.
It's Hearthstone afterall, you never know.
It does and it should.
The phasing is as such.
1. Frostbolt is played. 2. "Whenever a spell is played" effects happen, in this case there's isn't anything. 3. Then the spells effects happen in order 4. Damage is done to the mad scientist marking it for death (we can ignore the freeze effect as its irrelevant in the example) 5. The mad scientist dies and opens up a deathrattle phase 6. Deathrattle pulls the secret. 7. We exit the deathrattle phase.
8.We now complete the spell. 9.Spell finishes and triggers the "After spell is cast" phase 10. Cat trick triggers because it came into play before the spell fully completed.
This is actually extremely similar to how a battlecry killing a mad scientist that pulls a mirror entity will copy said minion with that battlecry.
I saw this card today in my arena draws but didn't get to really test it due there was some other card that did fit better to my deck. Still I would claim this is a very solid card in the arena.
If you get to play it early, it's not that easily dealt with. You're likely to pull a good trade out of it after you use it to attack opponent's hero.
Was there any patch that repair cat trick? One month ago while i played Mad Scienist and oponent remove him with spell and it bring my Cat Trick into game it activated immediately after that spell.. Now it is not activated after oponent play spell.. IDK which way is correct, but it is changed
Was there any patch that repair cat trick? One month ago while i played Mad Scienist and oponent remove him with spell and it bring my Cat Trick into game it activated immediately after that spell.. Now it is not activated after oponent play spell.. IDK which way is correct, but it is changed
They changed the entire activation sequences of the game, so these instances won't happen anymore. Stuff gets resolved one after each other now, instead of kinda at the same time.
The phasing is as such.
1. Frostbolt is played.
2. "Whenever a spell is played" effects happen, in this case there's isn't anything.
3. Then the spells effects happen in order
4. Damage is done to the mad scientist marking it for death (we can ignore the freeze effect as its irrelevant in the example)
5. The mad scientist dies and opens up a deathrattle phase
6. Deathrattle pulls the secret.
7. We exit the deathrattle phase.
9.Spell finishes and triggers the "After spell is cast" phase
10. Cat trick triggers because it came into play before the spell fully completed.
This is actually extremely similar to how a battlecry killing a mad scientist that pulls a mirror entity will copy said minion with that battlecry.
"I activate trap card..."
I saw this card today in my arena draws but didn't get to really test it due there was some other card that did fit better to my deck. Still I would claim this is a very solid card in the arena.
If you get to play it early, it's not that easily dealt with. You're likely to pull a good trade out of it after you use it to attack opponent's hero.
On ranked it act as okay spell bait.
Was there any patch that repair cat trick? One month ago while i played Mad Scienist and oponent remove him with spell and it bring my Cat Trick into game it activated immediately after that spell.. Now it is not activated after oponent play spell.. IDK which way is correct, but it is changed