Ok, that makes sense, but it is not immediately apparent. When a card reads "deathrattle: draw a card," it is not the minion drawing the card, but the player. This seems inconsistent to me.
Ok, that makes sense, but it is not immediately apparent. When a card reads "deathrattle: draw a card," it is not the minion drawing the card, but the player. This seems inconsistent to me.
The concept of 'who is casting the spell' isn't really standard anyway before Old Gods. Minions had abilities like battlecries while you had spells. 'Draw a card' is technicallly read as 'draw a card for the hero'. Remember blizzard has LONG since established that the wording o nthe text has hidden contexts.
Thus "cast a spell" by a minion has no president and is outside of any other past action. Thus when Old Gods kicked in, the president was set; spells ccast specifically by the minion are 'cast' by the minion itself . If a quest were to show up that wanted "6 spells cast by minions" a 6-spell Yogg would complete the quest but you casting spells would not.
It could've gone either way, but Blizzard didn't want to see a 10-spell Yogg result in a 11/3 mana wyrm or Lyra filing up your hand.
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Hello all,
Why doesn't Servant of Yogg-Saron trigger a count for Open the Waygate?
They both use the keyword "cast."
Because you're not the one casting the spell.
The minion casts the spell not you
Ok, that makes sense, but it is not immediately apparent. When a card reads "deathrattle: draw a card," it is not the minion drawing the card, but the player. This seems inconsistent to me.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.