Blues: Can Spells Be Played Without Targets?

MVP - Hearthstone

#1 - June 14, 2013, 8:04 a.m.

This is a bit of a niche question, but it's one that could actually feasibly happen.

Let me use the spell Corruption for example. The text states that it must target an enemy minion. If there are no enemy minions to target, can you still play it? Obviously it doesn't DO anything, but can you still pay one mana and play the card?

The closest example I can think of is with minions. Take Crazed Alchemist; if you play him and there's no other minions to target, his Battlecry just takes no effect, but you can still play him. Similarly, can you "play" the spell with no target and basically just have it do nothing?

The number of situations this would matter in are of course limited, but it would matter for example with proccing Mana Addict's +3 attack bonus, and it would proc Illidan's Flame of Azzinoth.

Zeriyah

Community Manager

#4 - June 14, 2013, 6:14 p.m.

If there is a spell that requires you to specifically target a minion, like Corruption, you will be unable to play the card if there's not a target for that spell.

If there's not a specific target for the spell (example: Deal 2 damage), you can target pretty much anything with it, including your friendly minions or your hero, but there still has to be a target.