gwent scorch card

[Dom0607]

can the scorch card burn your arm if you play because i played it and my force get burned

[Living Broscillograph]

Yeah, it can.

[Russty]

Scorch will remove the strongest card(s) in play including yours if you happen to have the strongest one, it wont affect hero cards though.

PS are you a Man U player?

[deidian]

When a card says that targets the higest score cards in the game is just that. The higest ones will be targeted. Actually Skellige deck has a card that has an special ability the same as scorch that can even target itself with its ability meaning that if at the moment you place the card in the field if it's among the higest score cards it will destroy itself.

Ofc remember that hero cards cannot be targeted by abilities, so they are skipped by scorch.

[ElectroRanger]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Damian, that is quite not correct.

All Scorch cards will target the highest point value cards on the playing board, be it for the player, the opponent or both. And once played, they are discarded.

This is not exclusive to the Clan Dimun Pirate card (Skellige deck). All Scorch cards do this. It is their primary function, not a special ability. They do not target themselves. Once used, they are discarded. Scorch can can never remain on the playing board once played.

Exception is borkh bad names mcdragon who specifically only scorches enemy's strongest close combat unit(s if theres sharing numbers carda) if their total strength is 10+.

Same for certain leader abilities.

[ElectroRanger]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by AlloyForce:

Exception is borkh bad names mcdragon who specifically only scorches enemy's strongest close combat unit(s if theres sharing numbers carda) if their total strength is 10+.

Same for certain leader abilities.

You're correct about Villentretenmerth. It does act as a Scorch card. The difference here is that when played, it is not discarded and remains on the playing board. And it only targets the enemy's cards, not the player's. If the opponent's Close Combat combined strength is 10 or more, it will eliminate them while remaining on the board, whereas other Scorch cards would be discarded once played but they can target both the player and opponent alike and only target the highest strength cards.

There are two Leader cards with similar abilities. Foltest - The Steel-Forged acts as a Scorch card if the opponent's combined strength of all his Siege units is 10 or more. And Francesca Findabair - Queen of Dol Blathanna does the same if the combined strength of all his Close Combat units is 10 or more.

The curious thing about Villentretenmerth though is that it's also vulnerable to other Scorch cards since it remains on the board after being played. And against Northern Realms and Nilfgaardian Empire decks since some of their Close Combat unit cards are Tight Bond, only those cards would be affected.

The other difference is that Villentretenmerth can also be called back into play following the completion of a round by a medic, unlike other Scorch cards.

My point in my previous thread though was regarding the Skellige card Clan Dimun Pirate.

Not to be nitpicky buuut foltest has 2 leader abilities like that. One for ranged and another for siege.

[deidian]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Damian, that is quite not correct.

All Scorch cards will target the highest point value cards on the playing board, be it for the player, the opponent or both. And once played, they are discarded.

This is not exclusive to the Clan Dimun Pirate card (Skellige deck). All Scorch cards do this. It is their primary function, not a special ability. They do not target themselves. Once used, they are discarded. Scorch can can never remain on the playing board once played.

This was more or less what I said. Scorch says it destroys all the cards with the highest score in the game. So it's all cards: yours and your oppenent. I think is not so difficult to understand the concept ALL the cards in the game...

No, Clan Dimum Pirate remains in the battlefield if played, there's a difference between a spell kind card(Scorch) and a summon type card(Clan Dimum Pirate). But if Clan Dimum Pirate is one of the highest value cards in the game when you play it, then Clan Dimun Pirate is destroyed too by its own special ability.

Villentrethment is not a scorch card. Scorch is destroying all cards that have the highest value in the game. Villentrethment ability is destroying the oponent's close combat cards that have the highest value if the total points in the oponent's close combat row are greater or equal than 10. Same stands for Prince Toad, is another ability, not Scorch.

Scorch is pretty well described: "Destroy's all the highest score cards in the game". It does not make difference on who's the card owner or in which row is placed.