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25 Dec 2023 03:39

For all that, I get nothing. (Small rant)

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r_hearthstone

25 Dec 2023 02:39

Pointless Hearthstone Info: Multi-Character Minions

Earlier today, I saw a Reddit post about how Maw and Paw should give two corpses upon death instead of one. This post got me thinking about how a minion sometimes will have multiple characters in the artwork, yet still function as a single unit.

The most common example, I think, are mounted minions. These guys are characters that ride around on another character in the artwork. The "The Grand Tournament" set and the "Darkmoon Races" miniset have a lot of these: Murloc Knight rides a courageous frog into battle, while Crabrider opts for a speedy crab to win the races! Obviously, the names of the cards suggest that the character-in-question regarding the minion is the rider. Otherwise, these cards would be dual-type Murloc/Beast minions and have a name that reflects their tag-team approach to minion combat.

Another example would be characters and their associated "summons" sharing the minion artwork. Bomb Wrangler shows both the gnome and the Boom Bots she summons when damaged. Imported Tarantula has the spiderlings that get summoned when the big guy dies (but the little spiders are small enough to fit through the bars and one of them is already on the outside of the cage, so why is this a deathrattle?). In these cases, the extra characters in the artwork just add a little flavor to the mechanics of the card; they're not meant to be interpreted as one whole unit.

And, of course, there is copious amounts of minions with other characters just hanging around somewhere in frame. A character in a battle with another character, or with background characters reacting to them, or whatever. Again, the name of the minion itself demonstrates who the card is supposed to be. Impatient Shopkeeper is the shopkeeper, not the gnome making him impatient. Smug Senior is the guy in the front and center, not the lurking dragon in the background who's about to turn the poor sap into a Spectral Senior. Raid Negotiator is... probably the druid in the back? I think? I know it's a druid card, but he doesn't look like he's doing much actual negotiating in the art. If anything, he's being less productive than the angry raiders; at least they're communicating. I'll have to take Blizzard's word for it, I guess.

What I am actually interested in, however, are minions that are supposed to be units of two or more characters. The multi-character minions (I'll call them MCMs from now on). These are your Maws and Paws. The dream teams who work together as one synchronous, well-oiled minion machine. There are two other minions that immediately jump to my mind as MCMs: Lotus Agents and Wobbling Runts. You could argue that the Runts fall into the "showing summons" category, but the minion's name is Wobbling Runts, not Steady Runt With Two Unbalanced Idiots On His Back. As a singular tower of teamwork, they are the Wobbling Runts.

MCMs raise a few questions. For starters, how are their stats determined? If each runt in the Wobbling Runts is a 2/2, then why is the collective not a 6/6? It probably could be, given how awful this card is, but still. The Lotus Agents are a 3/3 (or 5/3 on release), which is not divisible by two. Which agent has which stats? Maw and Paw could maybe be