[confirmed]Amulet of Quoz not removed from non-ante games.

by **stassy** » 27 Feb 2014, 05:40

Describe the Bug:
~~Amulet of Quoz can be played in a non-ante game~~

Which card did behave improperly ?
Amulet of Quoz

Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
2014/02/18: Born of the Gods v2 - DUEL

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
Amulet of Quoz cannot be played in a non-ante game

Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
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Well, if it's just considered as an allowed joke card like Duh! then it's not a bug then :mrgreen:

by **BAgate** » 27 Feb 2014, 06:14

Out of curiosity, with other similar cards the entire deck does not appear when not playing for ante as opposed to the specific card being removed. Was this a design decision?

by **Korath** » 27 Feb 2014, 22:02

It seems likely, but I can't find where it's done. Nothing unusual in Tempest Efreet's csv rows and it doesn't seem to be referenced from anywhere.

Amulet of Quoz is properly detected if CheckDeckLegality is turned on config.txt. (Same with Duh and Jack-in-the-Mox.) That's about the best we can do.

by **BAgate** » 27 Feb 2014, 22:39

So should that be a default setting?

by **Korath** » 27 Feb 2014, 23:17

Well, it would be pretty irritating; I tend to build decks with 20 Mox Pearl and 20 Serra Avenger when testing something.
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Pretty sure I've found this now. (Almost immediately after saying I couldn't. Typical.) There's a hardcoded list of 31 ante-only and restricted cards, with a third bit that isn't set on anything (banned?). It's unclear what's done with the two non-ante bits; as a totally unsupported guess, maybe it interacts with the Unrestricted/Wild/Restricted Type 1/Tournament Type 1.5/Highlander formats in the Duel Opponent menu.

Cards marked ante-only | Open

Contract from Below
Darkpact
Demonic Attorney
Jeweled Bird
Bronze Tablet
Rebirth
Tempest Efreet

And nothing's marked with bit 3.

They've clearly been fiddled with already; Channel and Mind Twist were banned until well after this was released, and Strip Mine not restricted until well after. Time Vault is conspicuous by its absence (I think, but am not certain, that it was one of the original Microprose cards in Spells of the Ancients).

The relevant functions are

Code: Select all: int sub_496B50(int csvid) { /* return 1 iff csvid is ante-only */ } int sub_496AB0(int csvid) { /* return 1 iff csvid is restricted */ } int sub_496B00(int csvid) { /* return 1 iff csvid has bit 3 set */ }

by **Aswan jaguar** » 09 Sep 2016, 13:16

This has been fixed in the way that Amulet of Quoz can't be played in a non-ante game.It is not removed from deck as it is supposed to,however.Ante cards in the original game as said by BAgate dealt with that by removing the deck containing ante cards from non-ante games selection list instead of removing them from game.