Is Azuki’s Rooted like Freeze in Hearthstone?
MostlyMostly. Rooted is closer to Hearthstone’s Freeze than Azuki’s own Frozen is: the card can’t attack on its next turn, keeps its text and still takes damage.
Rooted in the Azuki TCG
A Rooted card cannot attack until the start of the rooting player’s next turn. Nothing else changes: it keeps its abilities, can still use Defender, and takes damage normally. Sandcoil Python roots every opposing entity with base attack 3 or less, and The Pale Lady roots whatever leader or entity attacks her.
The same
- Both stop attacking and leave abilities, Taunt or Defender working.
- Both leave the card open to damage.
Different
- Freeze commonly hits heroes directly, whereas almost all Rooted effects target entities — only The Pale Lady can Root an attacking leader. Her Root lands during their attack and ends at the start of your turn, so it only stops a second attack that turn, such as Lady Emberheart’s after she untaps.
- A Frozen character thaws at the end of its owner’s turn once it has missed an attack. Rooted lasts until the start of the rooting player’s next turn.
- Priestess of Sanzu can attack untapped Rooted entities, which are normally safe from attacks. Hearthstone has no such interaction.
Hearthstone: checked against the Hearthstone Wiki: Freeze. Azuki TCG: printed card text and the rules.
