Reckless Apprentice

Reckless Apprentice is a rare mage minion card, from the Forged in the Barrens set.

Fixed bugs

 * Prior to Patch 20.4.0.84593, Reckless Apprentice would cause Emperor Wraps, Dinomancy, and Modest Aspirations (from Duels), to target the enemy hero. Respectively, this would transform your hero into a 2/2 copy of the opponent with no Hero Power, give the opponent a permanent +2/+2, and set the opponent's Attack and Health to 3.

Strategy
Played on its own, Reckless Apprentice can be read as "Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to all enemies" attached to decent stats for the cost, effectively a better Arcane Explosion for free. Where this card truly shines, however, is in tandem with Hero Power boosting effects, such as Wildfire, Fallen Hero, and (in Wild) Arcane Amplifier, providing an efficient board clear and face damage.

In Wild, this also synergizes well with Genn Greymane because of its even-cost and the upgraded Hero Power given by Justicar Trueheart; however, as an even-cost card, it cannot be used with Baku the Mooneater.

Patch changes

 * Fixed a bug where Reckless Apprentice’s effect would cause some minion-only Hero Powers to hit the enemy hero.
 * Fixed a bug where the Battlecry for Reckless Apprentice would not apply the Freeze effect from Ice Walker.
 * Fixed a bug where the Battlecry for Reckless Apprentice would still trigger if the Hero Power was disabled.
 * (Undocumented) Reckless Apprentice's Battlecry will count as using Hero Power for one-time effect cards such as Daring Fire-Eater.
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