I dislike little inconsistencies in card text. Yes, I know Hearthstone is informal as far as text goes, but it's still nice when mechanics mean what they say. One that really bugs me is the word Resurrect. To date, 21 cards have abilities that return minions that died to life. Of those, three use the phrase "Return it to life", three use "Resummon", two use "Resurrect", and the rest use "Summon... that died this turn/game".
The issue I have is that Resurrect is a clean, succinct pseudo-keyword that shortens the text on Lesser Diamond Spellstone and Kangor's Endless Army really nicely. In particular, the normal convention makes Twilight's Call unwieldy. One big thing the Hearthstone team prioritizes is snappy card text, so tell me if these examples aren't more snappy?
The logic is that by ressurrecting a minion you're bringing the same minino back to life with its original stats, and as the Twilight's Call card text says, the minions summoned are copies with 1/1 stats.
The logic is that by ressurrecting a minion you're bringing the same minino back to life with its original stats, and as the Twilight's Call card text says, the minions summoned are copies with 1/1 stats.
Not when the card text is specifying what happens. If you read my version, you can still tell exactly what the card does, but it's 3 lines instead of 4 (with cleaner line breaks as well).
Again, snappiness > exact descriptions, as long as the card is still simple to grasp.
I prefer writing out the full text, and I'm glad that 'Resurrect' is only used on two cards (and only because writing out the full text may push them over 4 lines). 'Resurrect' may seem intuitive, but without the context of the card Resurrect, there's a knowledge barrier there that requires playing the card to understand it. You're basically asking for Resurrect to become a Keyword, and I don't think that's necessary.
What I will agree with is the 'Return to life' distinction. There's no reason these effects shouldn't be worded as 'Resummon'. I believe that's just an inconsistency from Classic that was sort of carried over weirdly onto other cards - probably just whichever version of the effect the designer remembered at the time. Changing these to be 'Resummon' instead keeps them consistent with the other 'Summon' cards.
The logic is that by ressurrecting a minion you're bringing the same minino back to life with its original stats, and as the Twilight's Call card text says, the minions summoned are copies with 1/1 stats.
Not when the card text is specifying what happens. If you read my version, you can still tell exactly what the card does, but it's 3 lines instead of 4 (with cleaner line breaks as well).
Again, snappiness > exact descriptions, as long as the card is still simple to grasp.
Well, if you care so much for logic, I must say you can't ressurrect a copy of something: you just can ressurrect that specific something.
It would only be possible to ressurrect a copy of something if this copy had died previously.
So, in your version of Twilight's Call, you're not ressurrecting minions, but instead, you're creating new copies of minions that died previously.
I mean, technically you can't resurrect anything in Hearthstone. Every resurrect spell (including Ancestral Spirit, Redemption, and the like) are just summoning a copy of the minion. It's just a simplification of wording. You're cutting out the phrase "that died this game" and replacing it with a single word.
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I dislike little inconsistencies in card text. Yes, I know Hearthstone is informal as far as text goes, but it's still nice when mechanics mean what they say. One that really bugs me is the word Resurrect. To date, 21 cards have abilities that return minions that died to life. Of those, three use the phrase "Return it to life", three use "Resummon", two use "Resurrect", and the rest use "Summon... that died this turn/game".
The issue I have is that Resurrect is a clean, succinct pseudo-keyword that shortens the text on Lesser Diamond Spellstone and Kangor's Endless Army really nicely. In particular, the normal convention makes Twilight's Call unwieldy. One big thing the Hearthstone team prioritizes is snappy card text, so tell me if these examples aren't more snappy?
Your card pics are very big.
The logic is that by ressurrecting a minion you're bringing the same minino back to life with its original stats, and as the Twilight's Call card text says, the minions summoned are copies with 1/1 stats.
Sorry, I didn't know how to resize them.
Not when the card text is specifying what happens. If you read my version, you can still tell exactly what the card does, but it's 3 lines instead of 4 (with cleaner line breaks as well).
Again, snappiness > exact descriptions, as long as the card is still simple to grasp.
I prefer writing out the full text, and I'm glad that 'Resurrect' is only used on two cards (and only because writing out the full text may push them over 4 lines). 'Resurrect' may seem intuitive, but without the context of the card Resurrect, there's a knowledge barrier there that requires playing the card to understand it. You're basically asking for Resurrect to become a Keyword, and I don't think that's necessary.
What I will agree with is the 'Return to life' distinction. There's no reason these effects shouldn't be worded as 'Resummon'. I believe that's just an inconsistency from Classic that was sort of carried over weirdly onto other cards - probably just whichever version of the effect the designer remembered at the time. Changing these to be 'Resummon' instead keeps them consistent with the other 'Summon' cards.
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Well, if you care so much for logic, I must say you can't ressurrect a copy of something: you just can ressurrect that specific something.
It would only be possible to ressurrect a copy of something if this copy had died previously.
So, in your version of Twilight's Call, you're not ressurrecting minions, but instead, you're creating new copies of minions that died previously.
I mean, technically you can't resurrect anything in Hearthstone. Every resurrect spell (including Ancestral Spirit, Redemption, and the like) are just summoning a copy of the minion. It's just a simplification of wording. You're cutting out the phrase "that died this game" and replacing it with a single word.