Ice Barrier - wrong gameplay

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Hi Blizzard team!
Scerario:
On Arena run I played Mage and the opponent was a Hunter (importnat).
At 2 blood I played Ice Barrier and with one of my minions I attacked his hero.
The Huter had Misdirection secret in play, which was triggered by my minion attaching him. Misdirection targeted my minion at my hero. “How fortunate”, I thought, “It will trigger my Ice Barrier and I’ll win the game”.
However, insted of triggering my Ice Barrier, my minion killed me, which showld be wrong, as Ice Barrier says: “When your hero is attacked gain 8 Armor”.

So, either chnage that to: “When your hero is attacked by enemy gain 8 Armor” or make Ice Barrier trigger in such situations.

The sad thig is this ended my arena run, so I would appretiate at least 1 free Arena ticket :wink:

Best regards,
Peter

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If I understand your post correctly, the events unfolded as intended. The trick is in the fact that secrets are not active during your turn. That is why e.g. a bomb in your deck can kill you at the start of your turn even though you have Ice Block.

(clarification: the exception are secrects which trigger at the start of the controlling player’s turn)

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BTW, is this documented anywhere? And why not let the secrets be active always? What drawback will that bring?

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Just hover over any secret in your collection.
It states that a secret is ‘Hidden until a specific action occurs on your opponent’s turn.’.

Edit: Also, this is necroposting.

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right.

SUE ME :crazy_face:

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Please don’t necro old posts