Warsong commander + charge questions

Hello, I was playing a warrior deck which has both the Warsong Commander and Charge cards.

The Warsong Commander reads ‘‘Your charge minions have +1 attack’’.

That makes sense to me.

Charge reads ‘‘Give a friendly minion charge. It can’t attack heroes this turn.’’

This makes sense to me too.

So why does Warsong Commander not give 1 attack to a minion who I gave charge? Should the minion I give charge by playing ‘‘Charge’’ not get +1 attack by the Warsong Commander on board?

Please explain this to me :>

there was a different, but similar issue with the charge card recently.

it seems to be coded as rush (with the appropriate interactions) and not as charge…

Basically because a minion you’ve cast a charge spell on isn’t, technically, a “charge minion”. The warsong commander will only affect minions that have “charge” in their card text

1 Like

Mmmm >_< I kinda expected something like that but it was still unclear.

Thank you for explaining <3

But must say it is confusing tho o.o

1 Like

Also, if you played pint sized potion on a 2 attack minion and had a Warsong Commander it would get +1 attack, as pint sized gives charge XD and Da’jing of Da’zefir (very old card) would also gain charge from that (he had the text “whenever you target a friendly minion with a spell cast a copy of the spell on this minion”)

Djinni of Zephyrs…

he was mean to me in the adventure and I’ll never forget, you can be either with me or against me in this grudge

me being with or against you doesn’t change his name though

I think I read (some time ago already) that this actually depends on evaluation order. (Note that the below is from memory AND outdated, so I may misremember and things may have changed).

Apparently, pemanent auras are reset and re-evaluated all the time by processing all curretly active effects, typically in order of play. So if I recall correctly, playing Charge on a minion and THEN playing Warsong Commander would give it the +1 attack buff, but changing the order would not - because every time the effects are re-evaluated, the Warsong Commander aura is processed before the Charge spell is.

It becomes even more tricky with Warsong Commander + Southsea Deckhand.

1 Like

I just did some testing based on Hugger’s info and here are the results:

cases in which the +1 buff works:

  • minion - charge - warsong
  • weapon - southsea - warsong
  • southsea - weapon - warsong
  • southsea - warsong - weapon

cases where it doesn’t work:

  • warsong - minion - charge
  • weapon - warsong - southsea
  • warsong - southsea - weapon
  • warsong - charge (on warsong)

especially interesting is this: weapon - southsea - warsong - southsea. the first southsea gets the buff, the second doesn’t