Jetz72
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4 years ago This post on the bug forums offers a pretty convincing explanation - https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/explosive-shot-bug/21013/4
It seems that new cards, Grizzled Wizard and Kobold Stickyfinger cause this bug.
When you steal a weapon via Kobold Stickyfinger[ resp. swap hero powers via Grizzled Wizard], just like when you steal a minion, the weapon[ resp. hero power] you steal takes place in rightmost of battlefield. To be more specific, it doesn’t occupy the board(doesn’t affect on 7 minion limit) but it affects on the order(position) of minions.
In the above two videos, the postion of cards are
leftmost minion A - (2. weapon) - (3. hero power) - 4. rightmost minion B To make this arrangement, steal weapon and swap hero power first and then (after you get your hero power back,) summon B via any effect that summon minion on the rightmost of board. If you play a new minion C on the right of B, since there are two minions on the left of C, C’s position become a 3rd. So, the order is,
leftmost minion A - (2. weapon) - 3. minion C - (4. hero power) - 5. rightmost minion B since the adjacent of minion C is ‘2. weapon’ and ‘4. hero power’, C’s ability that buffs adjacent minion doesn’t affect on A and B.(even if it looks like A and B are adjacent to C)
When you destroy a weapon[ resp. replace hero power], minion A[ resp. minion B] is adjacent to C and succecfully get the adjacent buff.(Can check it in the second video.)
They also claim it was apparently fixed by 16.0.5, but the patch notes failed to mention it.
Some examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/ecnl8z/bug_my_explosive_shot_didnt_do_damage_to_adjacent/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaHS/comments/ecvl54/just_had_explosive_shot_fail_to_deal_2_damage_to/?ref=share&ref_source=link https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaHS/comments/eaksju/bug_with_silvermoon_portal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaHS/comments/ebxiqb/new_bug_with_dire_wolf_not_buffing/?ref=share&ref_source=link
hsreplay links: https://hsreplay.net/replay/xbj5nJMpW4hffadeSqYhTD https://hsreplay.net/replay/mxnU9BomfErbDT36nchy3o