# Jordrin's "destroy a column"
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [December 23, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650 "2023-12-23T12:16:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jruderman](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jruderman)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650/1 "2023-12-23T12:16:01Z")
Jordrin’s spell ends with the “destroy a column”. Other troops that use this wording, such as Deep Borer, allow the player to select a column. But Jordrin’s destroys a random column instead.
So either:
- There’s an error in the text, and Jordrin’s spell should be updated to read “destroy a random column”, OR
- There’s an error in the spell effect, and Jordrin’s spell should allow the player to select a column to destroy
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### Author:  [@Theoden](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theoden)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650/2 "2023-12-23T12:49:56Z")
It would be the former, since no spell requires the player to select both a gem and an enemy
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### Author:  [@ANGI](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ANGI)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650/3 "2023-12-23T13:40:25Z")
error in text wording, i could post here some others, but this is typical devs’ inconsistency
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### Author:  [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650/4 "2023-12-24T00:50:57Z")
There’s an unspoken design rule that all spells utilizing a manual target only ever prompt the player for ONE input (enemy, ally, or tile on the board), and the targets of any/all secondary effects are either specified directly (e.g. strongest troop) or selected at random. Additionally, spells that target multiple tiles on the board _even as their “primary” effect_ (e.g. “destroy # gems”) must select them at random.
A few comparisons:
- Herne (Divinion Fields Siegebreaker)
_“Deal # damage to an enemy … Destroy a random row.”_
The row would have been random anyway, but this spelltext actually says it.
- Tyran and Rex (Drifting Sands Godslayer Troop)
_“Deal # damage to an enemy … then become Enraged OR destroy a row.”_
The destroy is not guaranteed, and the row is selected at random.
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### Author:  [@ANGI](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ANGI)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jordrins-destroy-a-column/82650/5 "2023-12-24T11:08:41Z")
now add ogretaur (says random row), stormchaser (applies somehow random row by reading the spell) and storm knight.
devs’ inconsistency like i said.