Immune

Immune
Immune characters can't be targeted by enemies or damaged.

Immune is an ability that prevents characters from receiving any damage, and prevents the opponent from specifically targeting them with any type of action. However, it does not prevent destroy, restore Health, or other non-damaging effects on Immune characters, which can still be affected by randomly or automatically targeted effects, including area of effect.

Notes[]

• Immune prevents all damage that would be dealt to the affected character, regardless of its amount and source (similar to Divine Shield). In particular:
  • Immune prevents damage from combat, spells, Hero Powers, Battlecries, Deathrattles, Secrets, triggered effects and Fatigue.^[1][2]
  • Immune prevents damage from both enemy and friendly sources, such as Flame Imp and Life Tap.^[1][3]
  • Effects that trigger when damage is dealt (such as Frothing Berserker) will not trigger if the damage is prevented by Immune.^[4]
  • Immune characters will still deal damage normally.
  • For additional details, see Damage#Advanced rules.
• Immune minions and heroes are still vulnerable to non-targeted destroy effects and "area of effect" effects.
  • Example: Equality will still affect minions which are Immune.
  • Example: Twisting Nether will still destroy Immune minions.
  • Example: Uther of the Ebon Blade's hero power effect (The Four Horsemen) will destroy an enemy hero even if it is Immune.^[5]
• An Immune character cannot be actively targeted by the opponent (similarly to Stealth). This includes combat attacks as well as targeted spells, Battlecries and Hero Powers. In particular:
  • Immune characters can be targeted by enemy effects that are automatically targeted (such as Vaporize)^[6] or randomly targeted (such as Ragnaros the Firelord, Knife Juggler or Clumsy characters), although any resulting damage will still be prevented.^[7][8][9]
• Immune characters can be actively targeted by the controlling player, although any resulting damage will still be prevented. For example, a player can use healing and destroy effects on their own Immune hero or minions to full effect.
  • Example: A player whose hero has been replaced by Lord Jaraxxus and is protected by Mal'Ganis can still use Sacrificial Pact to destroy themselves.^[10][11].
  • Example: A player can use Alexstrasza to directly alter their own hero's Health, regardless of its current value.^[12]
  • Example: A player can cast damaging spells (such as Darkbomb) on their own Immune hero: they simply will not deal any damage.^[11]

• Immune effects are always temporary outside of certain cases like The Jailer, and only offer immunity for the stated period or while the source is active: after this, the effect is removed.
  • Immune effects on a hero belong to that specific hero, not to the controlling player. For example, if Ice Block gives Immune to a hero that later that turn is replaced by Majordomo Executus's Deathrattle, the resulting hero will not have the Immune effect.^[13]
• Misdirection does not trigger if an Immune hero is the only available redirect target.^[14] In addition, it is believed (with 99.2% confidence, i.e. 1/128 probability of being incorrect) that Misdirection cannot select an Immune character as the defender, even if it does trigger.^[15]
• As with Stealth, Taunt minions that are Immune have their Taunt ability temporarily suppressed, and can thus be bypassed.^[16][17]
• Immune effects will not prevent the game from ending automatically at the start of the 90th turn: for example, if both players have a Mal'Ganis in play and refuse to attack each other, the game will end in a draw at the beginning of the 90th turn.^[18][19]
• Although not explicitly stated in the card's text, Gorehowl has a triggered effect that grants a temporary Immune effect to the weapon itself, which protects it from Durability losses the same way Immune effects on characters protect them from damage. For additional information, see Gorehowl.

Sources of Immune[]

For Wild format listings, see Immune/Wild format

Immune-granting cards[]

This section lists cards which grant the Immune ability to other minions or to itself.

Trivia[]

• If Immune effects cause a character that is capable of attack to have no valid targets to attack, clicking on them will produce a "You cannot play that without a target" message across the battlefield, and the "I can't play that" emote from the hero. The character will also not be highlighted green, despite their ability to attack.
• As of Patch 4.1.0.10956, the only way to make an enemy minion Immune is to have Bestial Wrath stolen by a Spellbender,^[20] or to have Bestial Wrath's or Stablemaster's target stolen by an enemy Sylvanas Windrunner.

Patch changes[]

• Patch 24.4.0.150659 (2022-09-27): Tooltip changed to "Immune characters can't be targeted by enemies or damaged." (previously: "Immune characters can't be damaged.")

References[]

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