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[not worth fix]Heliod, God of the Sun - wrong token picture

PostPosted: 10 Apr 2014, 01:48
by HarlequinCasts
Describe the Bug:
The Cleric tokens that Heliod, God of the Sun produces appear to be Cleric tokens used by Deathless Angel when zoomed in. They have the 3WBB tap ability are are 1/1 when zoomed in. Otherwise they work correctly on the battlefield and are actually 2/1
(See screenshot)

Is this perhaps just a file name conflict or something?

Which card did behave improperly ?
Heliod, God of the Sun cleric tokens.

Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
BNG v2

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
2/1 Cleric

Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
NA

Re: Heliod, God of the Sun - wrong token picture

PostPosted: 10 Apr 2014, 02:07
by Korath
Cosmetic; they don't actually have the ability, only the text (which is surprisingly difficult to alter arbitrarily for non-effect cards, though at least not as difficult as altering their displayed names).

It's more or less intentional that all tokens with a given name are the same underlying card; this lets them work properly with Echoing Decay and similar, gets us extra imagery, etc. Other than displayed rules text, about the only place it breaks down is with Wurmcoil Engine (since we can't yet arbitrarily add artifact to a card's types, like we can with enchantment, and there are non-artifact Wurm tokens too).

Intentionally making the pictures match up to the token cards printed for a given set isn't impossible, but would be a lot of work for not a lot of gain. About the same difficulty as showing matching expansion symbols for the artwork chosen to display on a card.

Re: Heliod, God of the Sun - wrong token picture

PostPosted: 10 Apr 2014, 02:23
by HarlequinCasts
Fair enough, makes sense! I just hadn't noticed it anywhere else before. ^_^