Blasted Oak
A Unique Monument to grim persistence
If a spell or non-basic ability can target—in order of precedence—Blasted Oak, its site or location, or anything else at its site or location, it must.
Dan Seagrave
FAQs
Q: How can I tell if a spell or non-basic ability targets something?
It will use the word “target.”
Q: Are random events affected?
No. Something like Lightning Bolt (“Deal 3 damage to a random unit at target location”) must target Blasted Oak’s location, but then the random result is still determined randomly
Q: What happens if you have Kythera Mechanism?
When you target, you must follow Blasted Oak’s restrictions, but you can still choose random outcomes of your choice if you have Kythera Mechanism.
Q: Does summoning a minion target the location where it’s summoned?
No, and therefore Blasted Oak doesn’t influence where minions may be summoned.
Q: How does this interact with Chain Lightning?
You must target all the units you can that share Blasted Oak’s site, spending as much mana as needed to do so. Once you’ve targeted all those units, you could additionally target other units, if you had sufficient mana. For reference, Chain Lightning reads: Deal 2 damage to target unit nearby. Any number of times, you may spend 2 mana to additionally target a new unit nearby the previous one.
FAQs
Q: How can I tell if a spell or non-basic ability targets something?
It will use the word “target.”
Q: Are random events affected?
No. Something like Lightning Bolt (“Deal 3 damage to a random unit at target location”) must target Blasted Oak’s location, but then the random result is still determined randomly
Q: What happens if you have Kythera Mechanism?
When you target, you must follow Blasted Oak’s restrictions, but you can still choose random outcomes of your choice if you have Kythera Mechanism.
Q: Does summoning a minion target the location where it’s summoned?
No, and therefore Blasted Oak doesn’t influence where minions may be summoned.
Q: How does this interact with Chain Lightning?
You must target all the units you can that share Blasted Oak’s site, spending as much mana as needed to do so. Once you’ve targeted all those units, you could additionally target other units, if you had sufficient mana. For reference, Chain Lightning reads: Deal 2 damage to target unit nearby. Any number of times, you may spend 2 mana to additionally target a new unit nearby the previous one.