[fixed]Personal Incarnation damage redirection
Posted: 17 Sep 2016, 04:04
Describe the Bug:
1. You can't activate a Personal Incarnation you own unless you also control it. The current wording is admittedly a bit ambiguous; but before its most recent Oracle update in... SOI? (after BFZ and no later than EMN, anyway) the part in question read "Any player may activate this ability, but only if he or she owns Personal Incarnation." and it was flagged as a non-functional wording change.
2. The entire damage card you pick gets redirected. If the AI hits your PI with a Lightning Bolt, you can redirect 3 or 0, but you can't redirect 1 or 2. fixed
Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
Dev cc940a2, well past EMN.
What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
1. Whoever owns a given Personal Incarnation can activate it, no matter who controls it.
2. Damage is redirected a point at a time.
Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
Probably not. For the record, the other cards currently in Manalink that can be activated by someone other than their controller are Armageddon Clock, Clergy of the Holy Nimbus, Ifh-Biff Efreet, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Merseine, and Volrath's Dungeon.
The original MicroProse version of this card (which Shandalar still uses) is even worse, by the way; only its controller can activate it, and it redirects damage to its owner. Fun times with Pariah or Shivan Meteor.
1. You can't activate a Personal Incarnation you own unless you also control it. The current wording is admittedly a bit ambiguous; but before its most recent Oracle update in... SOI? (after BFZ and no later than EMN, anyway) the part in question read "Any player may activate this ability, but only if he or she owns Personal Incarnation." and it was flagged as a non-functional wording change.
Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
Dev cc940a2, well past EMN.
What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
1. Whoever owns a given Personal Incarnation can activate it, no matter who controls it.
2. Damage is redirected a point at a time.
Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
Probably not. For the record, the other cards currently in Manalink that can be activated by someone other than their controller are Armageddon Clock, Clergy of the Holy Nimbus, Ifh-Biff Efreet, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Merseine, and Volrath's Dungeon.
The original MicroProse version of this card (which Shandalar still uses) is even worse, by the way; only its controller can activate it, and it redirects damage to its owner. Fun times with Pariah or Shivan Meteor.