Shandalar - Program Bugs

[Korath]

The Loremaster's Tower series uses the MicroProse implementation, so you're stuck with it unless you upgrade to Thieves Hideout 1.

That said, both versions of the card look like they should work ok. Anyone care to confirm the behavior in both releases?

I can confirm Angelic Voices works on artifact creature only owner bf (Ornithopter + Kiln Walker) in TH1

I installed Thieve's Hideout 1 as advised and...

...it seems it made it worse.

I just had a game where my opponent played this with just one creature, an artifact creature, out at the time. With this one creature out the card worked as intended. The next turn he played another artifact creature and the bonus from Angelic Voices was gone.

Curious, if played after combat it works.

Check this out: the card might be checking the wrong player.

I was playing against Winged Stalion (white and blue) and I had an Angelic Voices out, and it was working OK (both of us had only white creatures in play).

As soon as my opponent plays a blue creature MY AV stopped working, so, it must be checking the wrong player. But, when it is controller by the opponent (Archangel deck) it works OK, so this is checking ONLY computer instead of controller.

[Korath]

Well, I can confirm it's considering all creatures, not just its controller's creatures, in TH1. I may or may not backport the rewrite to Loremaster's Tower, depending on how confident I am of it after that's fixed.

Angelic Voices didn't work as intended for me on two occasions (TH1). For both occasions, I don't remember what my opponent had.
a) I had 4 white creatures with (among them) 2 white aura enchantments on them.
b) I only had one artifact creature and nothing else on the battlefield.

[Korath]

The MicroProse version correctly only looks at Angelic Voices's controller's creatures. What it seems to be doing wrong is that it's considering any creature that's black, blue, green, or red to be non-white; so it should work correctly for colorless and monocolored creatures, but incorrectly for multicolored, partially-white ones.

I'd appreciate confirmation of this behavior (in either the Loremaster's Tower or Ruined Tower series, not Thieves Hideout).

[Korath]

commit b37740b7119defe28c0b7c6b3386a4aec026c30d
Author: Korath <dgk@Dirge.none>
Date: Mon Sep 7 23:56:08 2015 -0400

[TH] FIX #702: Angelic Voices doesn't check opponents' creatures for validity

It correctly never applied its bonus to opponents' creatures, but incorrectly
didn't apply its bonus to its controller's creatures either if an opponent
controlled a non-artifact non-white creature.