combat .. what ?
Posted: 07 Feb 2014, 22:50
Hello,
During a battle with an AI i ran into a situation i can't understand.
I had an attacker that was a Juggernaut , 5 power and 3 thougness , card that says it can't be blocked.
The AI deployed a blocker, that was a Ironclaw Orcs that had 2 power and 2 thougness, and that card said it can't block creatures with power 3 or greater.
So 1st thing i really don't understand is why the AI was able to move that card as a blocker, because according to both card, the Ironclaw Orcs can't block a Juggernaut.
Then came the 2nd oddity, the most puzzling one to me.
As a result, the AI lost NO lives , and my Juggernaut ended into my graveyard.
The thing is that the AI had no enchantment or artifacts around, the only deployed card out of the lands ones was a basic Frozen Shade ( 0 power and 1 thougness, so not upgraded with any black mana).
So i'm at a complete loss to understand this, i thought i figured out most of the game rules since the time i play but obviously there's something then that escape me there.
The only thing i can think about is about the possibility that the AI played a card but that somehow it occured so fast without any animation or pause ingame that it was then completely invisible to my old eyes, something i didn't noticed yet in my previous games with AI, and without any kind of game log to check the game events i can't say if that possibility is what happened or if there's something else at play.
Can someone more experienced in Manalink explain what am i missing ?
additional question so i don't create another thread about it :
Is the AI cheating in Manalink or am i that unlucky sometime with the cards i'm given in hands by my decks ?
I mean there are often occurance in which the AI has some rather amazing cards in hands that convenientely play together extremely well as if it was really handpicked, while when using the same deck i often struggle with some much less interesting hand than the AI had .
During a battle with an AI i ran into a situation i can't understand.
I had an attacker that was a Juggernaut , 5 power and 3 thougness , card that says it can't be blocked.
The AI deployed a blocker, that was a Ironclaw Orcs that had 2 power and 2 thougness, and that card said it can't block creatures with power 3 or greater.
So 1st thing i really don't understand is why the AI was able to move that card as a blocker, because according to both card, the Ironclaw Orcs can't block a Juggernaut.
Then came the 2nd oddity, the most puzzling one to me.
As a result, the AI lost NO lives , and my Juggernaut ended into my graveyard.
The thing is that the AI had no enchantment or artifacts around, the only deployed card out of the lands ones was a basic Frozen Shade ( 0 power and 1 thougness, so not upgraded with any black mana).
So i'm at a complete loss to understand this, i thought i figured out most of the game rules since the time i play but obviously there's something then that escape me there.
The only thing i can think about is about the possibility that the AI played a card but that somehow it occured so fast without any animation or pause ingame that it was then completely invisible to my old eyes, something i didn't noticed yet in my previous games with AI, and without any kind of game log to check the game events i can't say if that possibility is what happened or if there's something else at play.
Can someone more experienced in Manalink explain what am i missing ?
additional question so i don't create another thread about it :
Is the AI cheating in Manalink or am i that unlucky sometime with the cards i'm given in hands by my decks ?
I mean there are often occurance in which the AI has some rather amazing cards in hands that convenientely play together extremely well as if it was really handpicked, while when using the same deck i often struggle with some much less interesting hand than the AI had .