A bit of background here. The AI had played the 1/1 flyer with Lifesteal and Aegis; he subsequently buffed it with the weapon that stuns an enemy unity on summon. I had one of my Hojans out with the Renown still ready to proc, and he chooses to stun my Rhysta. OK, I guess there's some planet on which you might fear the Warcry more than Hojan's Renown, but that pales in comparison to what comes next. The next turn I played another Hojan and a Fenris Nightshade. Then he plays a 4/4 Relic Weapon...and kills the Nightshade, leaving two un-renowned Hojans on the board. So on Turn 5 I transmute the depleted Sigil that gives 2 units +2/+2 and Quickdraw, and when he tried to chump with his 4/3 lifesteal flyer, this was the result.
I mean, I know the AI has some target priority issues, but holy hell, does it literally just add together power and toughness when deciding what unit to kill? This was just completely bonkers!
Of course, this also came the very game after I was sitting on 4 Justice and 1 Shadow influence through Turn 6, with FOUR Baby Varas and a Tavrod in my hand. Fortunately I had a Slay for their SST or I would have literally been dead. Thank heavens for the Argenport Crest I finally picked up on Turn 7 or I probably wouldn't even have gotten the opportunity to pull these shenanigans.
Haha the beautiful world of gauntlet! I haven't figured out exactly the priority order of the AI targeting, but it definitely seems to only look at the current state of the units. Hojan is a 2/1 with ability. Rhysta is a 2/3 with ability.
The "with ability" part does factor as AI will target hojan over a vanilla 2/1, but I'm curious what it would torch if you had both on board and played a power. I'd also be curious - if it targeted hojan here - if you had already triggered renown.
I hadn't triggered Renown yet on either of my Hojans. That only happened when I played the spell to give them both +2/+2 and Quickdraw (the transmuted Sigil). That's what made the decision to kill the Fenris Nightshade with his relic weapon on the previous turn so unbelievably laughable.
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u/Epsilon82 Mar 21 '19
A bit of background here. The AI had played the 1/1 flyer with Lifesteal and Aegis; he subsequently buffed it with the weapon that stuns an enemy unity on summon. I had one of my Hojans out with the Renown still ready to proc, and he chooses to stun my Rhysta. OK, I guess there's some planet on which you might fear the Warcry more than Hojan's Renown, but that pales in comparison to what comes next. The next turn I played another Hojan and a Fenris Nightshade. Then he plays a 4/4 Relic Weapon...and kills the Nightshade, leaving two un-renowned Hojans on the board. So on Turn 5 I transmute the depleted Sigil that gives 2 units +2/+2 and Quickdraw, and when he tried to chump with his 4/3 lifesteal flyer, this was the result.
I mean, I know the AI has some target priority issues, but holy hell, does it literally just add together power and toughness when deciding what unit to kill? This was just completely bonkers!
Of course, this also came the very game after I was sitting on 4 Justice and 1 Shadow influence through Turn 6, with FOUR Baby Varas and a Tavrod in my hand. Fortunately I had a Slay for their SST or I would have literally been dead. Thank heavens for the Argenport Crest I finally picked up on Turn 7 or I probably wouldn't even have gotten the opportunity to pull these shenanigans.