Is Azuki’s Taunt like Taunt in Hearthstone?
MostlyMostly. Same idea: enemies must attack the Taunt card before your hero or leader. The Azuki catch is that Taunt only works while the entity is tapped.
Taunt in the Azuki TCG
While an entity with Taunt is tapped, your opponent can only attack entities with Taunt, so your leader and other entities are safe. Untapped, it does nothing. Stone Masked Ancient may tap itself as it enters the Garden to switch Taunt on right away.
The same
- The attacker must pick a Taunt card, and that protects the leader or hero too.
Different
- Azuki Taunt only works while the entity is tapped; Hearthstone Taunt is always on.
- Only tapped Azuki entities can be attacked at all, unless a card says otherwise, so tapped Taunt entities are the only targets left.
- The Azuki TCG also has Defender, which works the other way round: the defender chooses after the attack is declared.
Hearthstone: checked against the Hearthstone Wiki: Taunt. Azuki TCG: printed card text and the rules.