Clarification on Blood Rage / Blood Fury vs. Immortal Grapple

Blood Rage



Blood Fury


Immortal Grapple


My question is, are Blood Rage and Blood Fury playable under the effect of Immortal Grapple (The first round effect)?

Reasoning: While they say they are just Strikes, the strike itself says you make hand strike with +x strength that cannot be prevented with fortitude etc. And this confuses me, and I would like to get this sorted.

Kude wrote:

My question is, are Blood Rage and Blood Fury playable under the effect of Immortal Grapple (The first round effect)?

Yes. They're hand strikes.

www.vekn.net/index.php/general-rulings
Hand Strike: any non-ranged, non-weapon strike that deals damage based on the striking minion's strength, or any minion's non-ranged damage-dealing innate strike. [LSJ 19970224]

Kude wrote:

Reasoning: While they say they are just Strikes, the strike itself says you make hand strike with +x strength that cannot be prevented with fortitude etc. And this confuses me, and I would like to get this sorted.

"Strike: hand strike" is pretty explicit that it's a hand strike.

Is it the unpreventable damage that worries you? That's fine. You can do things in addition to making a non-ranged, strength-based, non-weapon strike, such as making it unpreventable, making the damage aggravated or whatever.

Creeping Infection from Thanatosis: "Strike: hand strike, and put this card on the opposing minion." is also a hand strike. The "put this card on the minion" bit is part of the strike, but doesn't invalidate it being a hand strike.

Thank you for the answer! It helped clear things out.