Shandalar - Program Bugs

[Korath]

Among other pre-AS cards, this only affects Obelisk of Alara; none of the other cards with three or more activated abilities has one in the third or later slot that could ever become activateable when neither of the first two could. (Jaya Ballard, Task Mage comes closest, and could indeed have manifested if there were any "Player gains shroud" or "Player gains hexproof" or "Player gains protection" effects in the game.)

[Korath]

commit e6fe6780b5a76c97a1d79a3bf217d0e11edd3cee
Author: Korath <dgk@Dirge.none>
Date: Sat Feb 20 20:45:03 2016 -0500

[AS] FIX #988: multiactivate_impl() forwards events for abilities #3+ correctly

Other than EVENT_CAN_CAST, EVENT_ACTIVATE, EVENT_RESOLVE_ACTIVATION,
EVENT_POW_BOOST, and EVENT_TOU_BOOST, this only correctly forwarded events to
the first and second activated abilities, instead forwarding to the second
ability multiple times.

This was most visible with EVENT_CAN_ACTIVATE, which manifested as
Savage Knuckleblade's third ability and Obelisk of Alara's third through fifth
abilities not being activateable unless one of their first two was. All other
pre-AS cards were unaffected, at least as far as EVENT_CAN_ACTIVATE goes, and
only Trading Post and Deathrite Shaman were affected among AS cards.

There were some less obvious effects for two other AS cards: a fully leveled-up
Guul Draz Assassin would only tell the combat AI it could potentially pump
creatures by -2/-2, and similarly a fully leveled-up Brimstone Mage would only
tell the combat AI it could potentially lower toughness by 1. On the other
hand, they're now reporting they can reduce by -6/-6 and -4 respectively, when
they should be -4/-4 and -3, so they need non-generic handlers in any case.