Kieran: Taken deck request (2014)

[Kieran]

This will be the place to request decks for 2014 similar to how decks were requested for 2013. The same things apply to this topic except number 6. Here is the criteria:

1. The name of your deck
2. The name of the Avatar utilizing your deck. (it's the name that will appear for the AI)
3. The box art image you prefer. (I will choose one based on the theme of your deck if you don't provide one)
4. The Planeswalker image that will smolder if you lose a duel. (yes, this has happened to all of us)
5. The Planeswalker image face that will be displayed. (it's the image that will appear for the AI)
6. What preview card you want to be displayed when you choose you deck. (N/A)
7. A unique UID number for your deck.
8. Do you want to be able to unlock cards and what cards are they?
9. The number of stars for each category in your Deck stats. (Size, Speed, Flexibility, and Synergy)
10. Your card list. (the cards you want in your library)
11. The color or colors of your deck. (Black, Blue, Green, Red, White or a combination of the five)

However, because there are fewer cards available compared to 2013 we are somewhat limited @ the moment. Yet, I'll try to code cards that are unavailable whenever I can. But the best way to get cards made is to use the Formal Request Thread started by Master Necro. If your request isn't filled right away just be patient and someone will eventually get around to it. I requested a few Sphinx cards and most of them were created after a few days.

Flickering Trinket deck box.

Custom island and plain art.

Lobby.

Windreaver personality and custom swamp art from my 'There Is Always Greater Power' deck.

Rickycoe123, I've included the TDX and card XMLs in their appropriate folders as per your request. I hope this helps. I really enjoyed playing with this deck.

Below is the list of requested decks currently available. I will update this list as new deck request are completed. All decks will include the necessary TDX and XMLs.

ATTENTION: The content enabler below was provided by MC Brodie and is required to run the requested decks we'll be creating. Thank you so much for pointing this out. Simply place this Wad in your game directory and your decks should be visible and work properly.

YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THIS FILE FOR REQUESTED DECKS TO WORK: Data_DLC_1000_Content_Pack_Enabler

COMPLETED DECKS(18) - Any date adjacent to a deck name indicates when it was last added or updated.
Altezz Legacy
Ancient Trap v1 (Sept. 25th)
Ancient Trap v2
Corrosive Affliction (Sept. 27th)
Creeping Lands (Sept. 26th)
Flickering Trinkets
Grave Rot (Oct. 14th)
Holy Spirit (Oct. 18th)
Merfolk Uprising (Oct. 18th)
Milled To Exile (Oct. 18th)
Rakdos Discard Pit (Sept. 25th)
Mind Riddle (Oct. 4th)
Phyrexian Rage(Oct. 4th)
Rise Of The Blood Barons(Oct. 4th)
Slivering Gruul(Oct. 14th)
Sorin's Bride(Oct. 14th)
Soul of the Vampire(Oct. 14th)
The Contortionist(Oct. 4th)
Witch's Brew(Oct. 18th)

PENDING DECKS (The various lists below were last updated Oct. 18th)
I'll also provide a code list of the cards still needed to complete these decks and remove them as they become available.

Dawn of the Fox (Missing 1 card)

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Kitsune Mystic (Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage -This card should probably be replaced because it's very difficult to create with heavy approximations-

Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Deathpact Descent (Finished)
Kor Armory (Missing 9 cards) Oct. 18th

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Armament Master
Conqueror's Pledge
Explorer's Scope
General's Kabuto
Grappling Hook
Knight of Cliffhaven
Kor Aeronaut
Kor Cartographer
Landbind Ritual
Lone Missionary
Soulbound Guardians
Spidersilk Net
Vulshok Battlegear

Not Today (Missing 9 cards)

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Cyclonic Rift
Laquetus's Creativity
Lethal Vapors
Overburden
Recoil
Tainted Isle
Warped Devotion
Wheel and Deal
Words of Wind

Suspended Sentence (Missing 16 cards)

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Augur of Skulls
Clockspinning
Deadly Grub
Death Rattle
Festering March
Ichor Slick
Infiltrator il-Kor
Lost Hours
Mindstab
Nihilith
Paradox Haze
Phthisis
Riftwing Cloudskate
Timebender
Unblinking Bleb
Zoetic Cavern

Throwing Stones (Missing 10 cards)

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Chimeric Mass
Cloak of Omens
Coretapper
Energy Chamber
Iron Myr
Keldon BattleWagon
Staff of Nin
Urza's Mine
Urza's Powerplant
Urza's Tower

Unlimited Blade Works (Missing 18 cards)

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Abandoned Outpost
Academy Ruins
Ancient Den
Arcum Dagsson
Auriok Steelshaper
Brass Squire
Darksteel Forge
Deathrender
Heartseeker
Mycosynth Lattice
Paradise Mantle
Reflecting Pool
Seat of the Synod
Sword of Kaldra
Sword of the Meek
Thespian's Stage
Trading Post
Vedalken Engineer

Ultimate Undead (Missing 8 cards)

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Kaervek, The Merciless
Last Rites
Meglonoth
Nezumi Graverobber/Nighteyes the Desecrator
Nim Deathmantle
Victory's Herald
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger (Currently difficult to code. Perhaps it needs to be replaced.)
Yore-Tiller Nephilim

EDIT: I'm testing the finished decks and will post them when my test are complete.

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

Hey, if you need any cards/decks made I could volunteer to make some for you. I'm getting the hang of making/debugging cards, the card creation thread's been somewhat quiet, and I don't have much else going on right now. I might not be able to get to all the cards all the time (especially if something is to come up)but I'll see what I can do.

[Kieran]

Thanks for volunteering GrovyleXShinyCelebi! I certainly welcome your help and we'll all appreciate your contribution. If we can get more collaborators I'm sure a lot of people will end up playing with decks they prefer although so many superb decks are already available. There are so many helpful people around. This is a wonderful community! Again, thanks!

[altezz]

hey, first off just wanted to say i think this is great what you're doing. just wondering is it possible to code the entire legacy neo-academy deck? wondered if there are certain cards that might give you trouble. here's a decklist i grabbed from the internet

-edit- sorry wrong decklist

4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Undiscovered Paradise
11 lands

0 creatures

2 Abeyance
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Braingeyser
2 Candelabra of Tawnos
1 Capsize
1 Crop Rotation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fastbond
4 Force of Will
1 Frantic Search
1 Grim Monolith
4 Helm of Awakening
4 Impulse
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Meditate
1 Mind over Matter
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Regrowth
1 Sol Ring
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Time Spiral
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall

[Kieran]

Thanks altezz! And remember, I'm no longer doing this by myself. The community is partnering up so I think this will eventually become a community effort when everyone has time. GrovyleXShinyCelebi and myself are just the first to volunteer. We're all here to help one another. Also, most of the cards on your list are available so I'll go ahead and make your deck tomorrow. Thanks for the request. Lastly, I guess I'll call it Altezz Legacy since you didn't include a name for it.

Edit 1: Well, your deck is fully comprised but these are the cards you'll have to request in the Formal Request Thread for me to fully complete it if GrovyleXShinyCelebi or myself don't get around to making them soon.

(It's always best to request cards using that thread. I'll use the search function in that topic to see if any of these cards are available and edit this list accordingly.)

Edit 2: None of the cards on this list were available using the search so they should all be requested.

Gemstone Mine
Undiscovered Paradise
Abeyance
Braingeyser
Candelabra of Tawnos
Capsize
Meditate
Mind Over Matter
Stroke of Genius
Time Spiral

[altezz]

okay thanks i'll request them, i could probably just replace some of those cards actually. this decklist comprises of only really old cards, there are probably better/other options.

-edit-

instead of Braingeyser and Stroke of Genius, it could easily be replaced with Blue Sun's Zenith, since there are many copies of that already out.

instead of 4x Gemstone Mine, i think it could be replaced with 4x Thran Quarry and instead of 2x Undiscovered Paradise you can use 2x Tropical Island

2x Abeyance can be replaced with 2x Voltaic Key

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

Hey mates,

I took the liberty of making Braingeyser, Candelabra of Tawnos, Capsize, Gemstone Mine, Stroke of Genius, and Time Spiral, and put them (and their art) into the attachment below. I thoroughly tested them and they all work perfectly, so let me know if there's any issues!

Tommorrow I'll get to work on coding in the rest of the requested cards.

One more thing, I don't know if the untap step exists in Duels, would the upkeep phase serve for Undiscovered Paradise?

Cheers!

[thefiremind]

I don't know if the untap step exists in Duels

Sure there is.
(But the very first turn of each duel skips both untap and draw, just so you know)

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

Heh, I thought that STEP_UPKEEP was a dud this entire time, and Stainless fused the untap step with either draw and upkeep. Thanks for clarifying, firemind.

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

Alright, I made two more cards that were requested. The only two that I can't do are Abeyance (I don't know how to prevent a player from casting instant and sorcery spells ONLY, as that stuff is usually covered by built-in PLAYER_CHARACTERISTICs), and Meditate (I believe it was thefiremind who said that it's not yet possible to make abilities that skip entire turns). Otherwise, enjoy!

[thefiremind]

I don't know how to prevent a player from casting instant and sorcery spells ONLY, as that stuff is usually covered by built-in PLAYER_CHARACTERISTICs

It should be possible:

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  <TRIGGERED_ABILITY resource_id="1" replacement_effect="1">
    <CLEANUP simple_cleanup="EndOfTurn" />
    <TRIGGER value="CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST" pre_trigger="1">
    if ( TriggerObject():GetCardType():Test(CARD_TYPE_INSTANT) or TriggerObject():GetCardType():Test(CARD_TYPE_SORCERY) ) and
    TriggerPlayer() == EffectDC():Get_PlayerPtr(0) then
       MTG():OverrideEvent()
       return true
    end
    return false
    </TRIGGER>
  </TRIGGERED_ABILITY>

Put target player in delayDC's register 0 and start this delayed trigger.

I believe it was thefiremind who said that it's not yet possible to make abilities that skip entire turns

Not sure if I ever said that, but it's right anyway. You could get to a game state where it seems like you skipped a turn, by granting an extra turn to all the other teams, but it would be hard to make right (you would need to grant the extra turns in the correct order) and it would have wrong interactions with cards like Final Fortune (the turn where you lose the game would be posticipated rather than skipped).
EDIT: Actually, it might be possible by using SkipPhase on all phases of target player's next turn... but seeing the problems with SkipStep in our attempt at Paradox Haze, I don't know if it would work.
EDIT 2: Results of my test here:
viewtopic.php?f=63&t=11743
quite satisfying now.

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

I don't know how to prevent a player from casting instant and sorcery spells ONLY, as that stuff is usually covered by built-in PLAYER_CHARACTERISTICs

It should be possible:

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  <TRIGGERED_ABILITY resource_id="1" replacement_effect="1">
    <CLEANUP simple_cleanup="EndOfTurn" />
    <TRIGGER value="CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST" pre_trigger="1">
    if ( TriggerObject():GetCardType():Test(CARD_TYPE_INSTANT) or TriggerObject():GetCardType():Test(CARD_TYPE_SORCERY) ) and
    TriggerPlayer() == EffectDC():Get_PlayerPtr(0) then
       MTG():OverrideEvent()
       return true
    end
    return false
    </TRIGGER>
  </TRIGGERED_ABILITY>

Put target player in delayDC's register 0 and start this delayed trigger.

I believe it was thefiremind who said that it's not yet possible to make abilities that skip entire turns

Not sure if I ever said that, but it's right anyway. You could get to a game state where it seems like you skipped a turn, by granting an extra turn to all the other teams, but it would be hard to make right (you would need to grant the extra turns in the correct order) and it would have wrong interactions with cards like Final Fortune (the turn where you lose the game would be posticipated rather than skipped).
EDIT: Actually, it might be possible by using SkipPhase on all phases of target player's next turn... but seeing the problems with SkipStep in our attempt at Paradox Haze, I don't know if it would work.
EDIT 2: Results of my test here:
viewtopic.php?f=63&t=11743
quite satisfying now.

Well, looks like you saved my butt yet again. After seeing that there is no SkipTurn() function, I thought that manually making the game skip all the phases might work, but then after reading about problems you had with Paradox Haze I decided that the bugs alone would be phenomenal after such an endeavor, kudos for actually being able to make a way to skip entire turns that doesn't break my computer (yeah, I tested it and it works like a charm)!

With that, I do have one question. When does the trigger CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST actually activate? In fact, why is changing mana costs and other such attributes for cards in hand a triggered ability anyways instead of a static ability?

The attachment below should have the last four cards altezz requested (and their art).

[thefiremind]

When does the trigger CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST actually activate? In fact, why is changing mana costs and other such attributes for cards in hand a triggered ability anyways instead of a static ability?

That's hard to say, I can only guess that it triggers when a card needs to be either highlighted (because you can cast it) or not.
A static ability doesn't carry TriggerObject and TriggerPlayer, this makes triggered abilities more powerful in terms of coding possibilities. Of course this kind of triggered abilities (CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST, CANT_BLOCK_TEST, EVASION_TEST...) can't be mapped to real Magic triggered abilities, the fact that they are coded as triggered abilities is just a developer's choice.

[Kieran]

Altezz Legacy is complete. Thanks to everyone that made this deck possible to compose. Especially GrovyleXShinyCelebi and thefiremind. Enjoy!

Lobby

In game

Great work! I'll go ahead and finish altezz's deck now. Also, I requested these cards in the FRT but no one has got around to producing them yet. If you have the time could you help create these so I can finish Lacy's tribal Gorgon deck? Also, where can I get a HQ picture of Deathgaze Cockatrice? Her deck features Bottled Cloister, Gorgons, Rats, and Snakes.

Bottled Cloister
Curse of Oblivion
Dread Return (Never mind, it's present in thefiremind's mod)
Dread Slaver
Gaze of the Gorgon
Gorgon Flail (Never mind, I went ahead and completed it)
Infernal Medusa
Null Profusion (Never mind, it's present in thefiremind's mod)
Sisters of Stone Death

[thefiremind]

You can find Dread Return and Null Profusion in my mod.
Sisters of Stone Death can't be coded (sadly).