Re: [confirmed]Jace, Architect of Thought
Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 04:29Opponent's library never gets alphabetized when searching, I don't think.
The heuristics for whether to sort or not are brittle - it'll sort whenever your entire deck is shown in that style of popup, whether it's actually a deck-searching ability or not. If you've got three or fewer cards in your library an activate an Orcish Spy, for instance, it'll sort; but if you have more than four and the AI has an Aven Mindcensor in play, it won't. It'd probably be a good idea to move the remaining deck-searching cards into C, and then only alphabetize if the tutoring effect wanted to look at the entire library, not just however many cards happened to be left in it.
As an aside, Archive Trap will consider that Orcish Spy activation as having been a deck search, too, even if the orc were still an asm card. It'll also consider anything that looks at any number of cards from your deck as a search, which is a bit more serious.
The heuristics for whether to sort or not are brittle - it'll sort whenever your entire deck is shown in that style of popup, whether it's actually a deck-searching ability or not. If you've got three or fewer cards in your library an activate an Orcish Spy, for instance, it'll sort; but if you have more than four and the AI has an Aven Mindcensor in play, it won't. It'd probably be a good idea to move the remaining deck-searching cards into C, and then only alphabetize if the tutoring effect wanted to look at the entire library, not just however many cards happened to be left in it.
As an aside, Archive Trap will consider that Orcish Spy activation as having been a deck search, too, even if the orc were still an asm card. It'll also consider anything that looks at any number of cards from your deck as a search, which is a bit more serious.