Why doesn't this work with secret keeper?
Posted Mar 19, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC
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Because they can't write card text for shit.
Another example "cast when drawn" i.e. confuse the fuck out of players who then have to go look up why it kept drawing cards after it cast.
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Seriously, what made them think putting 'play' on this card was a good idea? It's inconsistent with cards like [[Mad Scientist]] which has literally the same effect, unintuitive and it's just wrong in the interaction with Secretkeeper.
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I'll just copy my comment from another one of these posts:
People get really upset about how Blizzard doesn't give players the benefit of a doubt by eschewing intuitiveness when it gets in the way of cooler functionality. Memes like deckslots and the FWA nerf come out of Blizzard leaning into intuitiveness. But this is the flip side. And I think players should take this as a good sign, that Blizzard is willing the lean in the other direction.
They wanted to simplify the Masked Contender wording so they could pack in more interesting functionality. "Play a secret from your deck" vs "put a secret from your deck into the battlefield."
I think most of the playerbase prefers Blizzard do more of this.
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I prefer Blizzard write cards correctly to avoid this confusion.
Guess I'm in this minority in that case.
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I would like to know what my cards do before losing games to it ... It's stupid to not write what a card does on the fucking card.
In magic is this joke about "read the fucking card". In hearthstone this doesn't help. You just have to play it sometimes and hope for the best.
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Yup and then you ask on this sub and you often get replies along the lines of "yeah this is how the interaction works - everyone should know this" and it's based on some obscure questions on some forum that a dev has answered once upon a time.
It's not overly obvious how a lot of interactions in this game work unless you learn (and get punished) from experience. I would think with "improving new user experience" they would want to make this sort of thing far more obvious.
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😂
This was his reply to my original comment too y’all
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Truth stands.
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"you playing" a thing and "a card playing" things is different. wording could be better. for example when grand archivist casts a spell, it doesn't count towards yogg.
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A secret is being played, but you aren’t playing it? But this logic is still inconsistent with how summon effects are worded
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I’ve wondered the same thing. It’s a blatant inconsistency, and they should fix it. Either change the wording on this card so that you don’t “Play” the secret, or have it buff Secret Keeper.
They should change the last line to "Put a Secret from your deck into the battlefield." similar to Bellringer Sentry.
My thoughts exactly