Emmitt

Emmitt's primary red reads "when defending, the enemy hero must use the initiative value of their card and items instead of the defense value of their card and items. (Minion defense modifiers are applied as normal)". A prior clarification says "Emmitt's primary red is not changing how minion modifiers are calculated." Does "applied as normal" and "not changing" mean it only affects Defense, not Initiative — so e.g. being next to a friendly melee minion doesn't help you defend? Or does it mean all sources of defense modifiers aside from the card played for defense and defense items still affect the total — so minions, trinket's turret, Tigerclaw's poison marker etc. would affect the total, but Dodger's blue played to defend would only be worth its initiative value, not the bonus from empty spawn points?

Emmitt’s red is doing only what it says - replaces def value of card and items with ini values. Nothing else.