Harier Bee

E: If this card is added to your momentum from your card pool this turn, add it face up.

E: Reveal 1 copy of this card in your hand. Add the revealed card to your momentum. Your opponent discards 2 cards. Only playable while this card is face up in your momentum.

Since Harrier B's second E is a E:, does that mean I declare the E as the cost, and the effect are"Reveal 1 copy of this card in your hand. Add the revealed card to your momentum. Your opponent discards 2 cards. Only playable while this card is face up in your momentum."

Therefore if I don't have a copy of this card in my hand, I do not add it to my momentum and my opponent STILL discards 2 cards?

The way it is worded is true, you do get a free discard even if you don't have a copy of Harrier Bee in your hand. This wording problem's been mentioned for a long time, and hopefully when the new TR shows up, it will be errata'd.

as of right now, you must reveal your hand to your opponent to prove that you don't have another HB.

an official fix should come with the next TR update

I still don't see why everyone clamours for this to be errataed, it's not even that great. It's not like the card ever really sees play at all.

Possibly in the future, Tag. Besides, if we left stuff like this aside, who knows what kind of crazy wordings you could get!

Tagrineth said:

Its probably because people are discouraged by the poor wording and dont want to take advantage of such a silly ruling when its obvious what the intent was

as for it being good...its pretty good i surely dont like discarding two cards for no cost at all besides revealing my hand

Tagrineth said:

Interesting, as that hasn't been my experiance...

there's a player in my area who used it pretty well with promo Hsien-ko, but outside of that i haven't really seen it played at all...

I shy away from playing it because i dont wanna be 'that guy' who plays the card that is busted due to no errata to fix a simple problem

like every person playing blood runs true?

Ziephnir said:

but BRT isn't broken, no seriously, its not

We had a set 8 draft a last week where harrier bee got pretty insane. But other then that I have never played in an event encounter it or seen it at a big event last season.

and all of this is in Q&A because....?

take card talk to GenD. Q&A is for questions and OMG answers. people shouldn't have to go to a second/third/fourth page to get a ruling because of banter.