#1 - June 9, 2013, 3:59 a.m.
1) What happens if Alarm-O-Bot swaps with Lord Jarraxus? (something makes me think someone MAY have asked this question before, but can't remembers)
I think this one is pretty straight-forward; replacing your hero is a battlecry, and Alarm-O-Bot doesn't proc Battlecries, so I think he just summons out at a 3/15 minion. Kind of horrible way to have him played.
2) What happens if you have Alarm-O-Bot out and no minions in hand?
Based on what we've seen with other cards, if there's no minion to swap with, I suspect it simply stays out.
3) If you have 2 Alarm-O-Bots out, how does the swapping resolve? Does the first Alarm-O-Bot swap, and then the second swap after, resulting in a chance for you to swap the 2nd bot with the first?
I'm not sure on this one, but my guess is that it resolves one at a time, leading to a chance that you could essentially waste one bot by swapping with the first one.
4) If you have a single Bot on the table, and it swaps with a Bot in your hand, will the second Bot perform a swap as well?
I'm unsure on this one, this is kind of a tricky situation. Frankly, if not handled correctly coding-wise, you could have an infinite loop of swaps. It depends how the swapping is handled I suppose. In many games I've seen, "start of turn" is actually considered a phase where you can't take any actions except those that are slated to occur in the start of turn phase. One could say that any Alarm-O-Bot that's out during the start of turn phase and doesn't swap will attempt to; one could also say that the game snap-shots which Bots are out at the start of the turn and only those ones swap.
5) This isn't a question, but more of just an interesting note: who thinks it would be fun if they had an achievement to attack with an Alarm-O-Bot? Or if you really wanted to up the stakes, dealing damage while attacking with an Alarm-O-Bot?
This is an interesting achievement in the sense that Alarm-O-Bots in theory should only be on the table for one turn but can't attack on their first turn unless given charge. There's a lot of ways to get around this, but this is neither the purpose of the Alarm-O-Bot nor an easy thing to pull off.
