[confirmed]Recover mechanism wrong reprompt & exile

by **Aswan jaguar** » 12 Feb 2017, 19:34

Describe the Bug:
The recover Mechanism issues:
When a creature dies and recover mechanism triggers and the payment involves mana (use Icefall for test but the others are bugged,too):
1- You are prompt to choose a)Return Icefall to your hand, b)Do not return.If you choose b)Do not return, Icefall is exiled correctly and everything works fine.
2- If you choose a)Return Icefall to your hand, then you are prompt to pay {R}

.As soon as you pay first R then you get again the initial prompt to choose from a)Return Icefall to your hand, b)Do not return.If you select now b)Do not return, it exiles Icefall and prompts to pay {R}

:
2a- if you cancel now it will also exile the card that was above Icefall in graveyard.
2b- if you pay the cost then the card that was above Icefall in graveyard is returned to owner's hand.
3- If you choose a)Return Icefall to your hand, then you are prompt to pay {R}

.As soon as you pay first R then you get again the initial prompt to choose from a)Return Icefall to your hand, b)Do not return.If you select now
a)Return Icefall to your hand, you will be asked to pay {R}

if you do Icefall will return to your hand.Then you will be prompt again (at least if you have mana available) to pay {R}

:
3a- if you don't pay the cost then the card that was above Icefall in graveyard is exiled.
3b- if you pay the cost then the card that was above Icefall in graveyard is also returned to owner's hand.

Which card did behave improperly?
The recover mechanism

Which update are you using? (date, name)Which type? (duel, gauntlet, sealed deck)
Manalink 2016/08/27: Eldritch Moon v2, duel

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction?
The recover mechanism prompts selection menu once,payment menu once and returns or exiles only the creature with recover.
The recover "cost" (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay "cost". If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug?
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by **BAgate** » 14 Feb 2017, 04:53

I couldn't get it to trigger at all.

by **Aswan jaguar** » 14 Feb 2017, 07:13

It was a bad call to use as a test Icefall in my report because: As I mentioned in the other report, (an old bug report I retested) specifically made for Icefall, it doesn't have the correct values to give it recover ability so you can't test Icefall unless you correct the values and insert your changes to game.
But the same happens if you test any card with recover ability and mana cost payment at least costing 2 mana and more (I don't know what happens if it costs only 1 mana and seemed to work fine for a card with recover and non mana cost I checked).

by **Korath** » 02 Oct 2017, 18:05

Still broken in dev version as of today, both recover in general - at least the mana costs, as described above, I didn't test further - and Icefall in particular.

Also, if you use any of the recover cards to destroy your own creature - Garza's Assassin, Krovikan Rot, and (if recover worked with it, and you target an artifact creature) Icefall can do this - the spell card goes to the graveyard before the damage prevention and regeneration steps are run, so the creature you just destroyed triggers recover.

Oh, and Garza's Assassin's activation has no prompt.

by **Aswan jaguar** » 31 Dec 2018, 13:13

This is the same bug with this: viewtopic.php?f=86&t=18233&p=229078#p200294

by **Aswan jaguar** » 11 Apr 2020, 18:40

Garza's Assassin's activation has no prompt fixed in b3b6a53.