Can anyone explain to me how the game decides when a stolen minion gets to attack immediately? Potion of Madness and Shadow Madness allow the minion to attack immediately, but Cabal Shadow Priest does not. I never really thought about this until I saw how the new Cabal Acolyte works, and it gives the minion it steals the ability to attack immediately. Why does Cabal Shadow Priest not do that as well?
But that's what I'm saying. The new card, Cabal Acolyte, is worded as a permanent steal. If it was only for one turn, wouldn't it be worded like Shadow Madness and say "until the end of your turn"?
Cabal shadow priest is a permanent steal, whereas the madness cards give you control for 1 turn. The folks at blizzard figured that stealing a minion and then attacking with it is too big of a tempo swing but also figured that the only way you could get full advantage out of a minion stolen for a turn would be alowing to attack imediately.
The way the madness cards work is they actually give the stolen minion charge! Players figured this out with a card from loe which gained charge after copying a madness spell on itself.
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Can anyone explain to me how the game decides when a stolen minion gets to attack immediately? Potion of Madness and Shadow Madness allow the minion to attack immediately, but Cabal Shadow Priest does not. I never really thought about this until I saw how the new Cabal Acolyte works, and it gives the minion it steals the ability to attack immediately. Why does Cabal Shadow Priest not do that as well?
It depends if it goes back to your opponent at the of the turn, it can attack. If you steal it permanently it can’t attack on the same turn.
But that's what I'm saying. The new card, Cabal Acolyte, is worded as a permanent steal. If it was only for one turn, wouldn't it be worded like Shadow Madness and say "until the end of your turn"?
In this case you permamently steal the minion. The New card steals permamently and gives" charge" to the stolen minion
Right. Which seems 1) inconsistent and 2) bonkers
They designed Potion and Shadow as an Act of Treason card but they didn't fully flesh out the text.
For easy understanding, it should have "give the minion charge" added to the text.
if it doesnt say until end of turn you can keep it and you can't attack right away and vice versa
grats :)
If it says "take" then no charge, if it says "gain" then charge.
Mechanics in card reveals are very often buggy. A dev already confirmed on twitter that the stolen minion won't be able to attack.
Cabal shadow priest is a permanent steal, whereas the madness cards give you control for 1 turn. The folks at blizzard figured that stealing a minion and then attacking with it is too big of a tempo swing but also figured that the only way you could get full advantage out of a minion stolen for a turn would be alowing to attack imediately.
The way the madness cards work is they actually give the stolen minion charge! Players figured this out with a card from loe which gained charge after copying a madness spell on itself.