loldotcom wrote:AI trades with undying creatures way too often, especially mana dorks and stuff like
Geist of Saint Traft.
That and they will fall for Deathtouch 1/1's attacking into a sea of large creatures every time, and block those.
Yeah I have noticed this too. I use the
Vampire Nighthawk in almost all of my decks just because it's such an awesome defensive card, but he always attacks with his 3/3 or 4/4 or whatever and loses it.
I also find that his attacking and not attacking choices are a bit weak. It seems to me that he basically plays too aggressively. He always attacks with his crappy little creatures, and then I attack with my huge nasty creatures. Then on the next turn, rather than leaving his creatures so they can block my guys, he just attacks again, leaving himself totally open the next round. But the problem is that his attacks are doing maybe 5 damage total, and my attacks are doing about 10 damage total. So he takes me down to 10 health or something, but next turn he dies. If he just kept his creatures to block, he might have got a board wipe or something on his next draw.
And yet sometimes, he will not attack with a
Llanowar Elf even when I have nothing in play.
Also, not sure if this has been mentioned, but the AI does not know how to mulligan? Often I see him accept a hand with 0 or 1 land, and then he spends the next few turns discarding cards because he can't play anything. Usually I just press T to tie the game and I give him another chance.
Also, if he ever plays a land destruction card, his choices are sometimes not very good. He seems to be clever by choosing a card based on its color. So if you have a red white green deck and you only have a couple of plains, he tries to get rid of both of those. I think... But often he misses better targets. For example if you have a special land like an Emeria, or he will miss one of those 2 mana lands like a Dimir Aquaduct. Usually if he killed one of those, he would harm me far more.
Besides that, the only other thing I can think of at the moment, is that he is sometimes a bit too 'trigger happy' with his spells. For example I play a little 1/1 creature or something and he uses his
Path to Exile or
Terminate, or even worse, he uses a
Maelstrom Pulse heh. I find that it is usually better to save these spells at least for another turn or two, until you play something bigger. And sometimes by that point, you might draw a board wipe and you can kill everything in one go, and save your single card removal for later. And sometimes I will have nothing but a
Kitchen Finks or something, and he uses
Damnation to kill it once, and then after it persists, he uses another
Damnation to kill it again
But like I said last time, in general, I find the AI to be awesome
There are soooo many cards in this game, and for the AI to even be able to play and put up a good fight, I think is really impressive.