[fixed/clos]Slowtrips eventually trigger even if upkeep skip
Describe the Bug:
The slowtrip effects from the Ice Age/Homelands/Alliances/Mirage/Visions/Coldsnap sets trigger at the beginning of the next upkeep, not the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. The distinction is important due to Eon Hub, which can cause these to trigger many turns later at the first upkeep after the Eon Hub leaves the battlefield.
Which card did behave improperly ?
Blessed Wine is a handy test case for essentially all of them; Arcane Denial needs separate testing since it uses a different effect card.
Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
Manalink 2015/3/25: Fate Reforged,duel
What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
They should have exactly one chance to trigger, at the start of the first upkeep on the turn following the one where the effect is created.
Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
Gibbering Descent, no doubt, though the bug's in cantrip(), not the cards with skip-your-upkeep effects.
There might conceivably be some horrible effect that lets one of these cards or abilities be played during the untap step. It definitely used to be possible, with Barbed Sextant and Brass Man/Colossus of Sardia/Paralyze/Magnetic Mountain, but I don't think anything uses the mana_to_untap[] interface anymore. Maybe something with an untap trigger.
Paradox Haze isn't currently an issue since it doesn't add real upkeeps, just approximates them.
The slowtrip effects from the Ice Age/Homelands/Alliances/Mirage/Visions/Coldsnap sets trigger at the beginning of the next upkeep, not the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. The distinction is important due to Eon Hub, which can cause these to trigger many turns later at the first upkeep after the Eon Hub leaves the battlefield.
Which card did behave improperly ?
Blessed Wine is a handy test case for essentially all of them; Arcane Denial needs separate testing since it uses a different effect card.
Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
Manalink 2015/3/25: Fate Reforged,duel
What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
They should have exactly one chance to trigger, at the start of the first upkeep on the turn following the one where the effect is created.
Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?
Gibbering Descent, no doubt, though the bug's in cantrip(), not the cards with skip-your-upkeep effects.
There might conceivably be some horrible effect that lets one of these cards or abilities be played during the untap step. It definitely used to be possible, with Barbed Sextant and Brass Man/Colossus of Sardia/Paralyze/Magnetic Mountain, but I don't think anything uses the mana_to_untap[] interface anymore. Maybe something with an untap trigger.
Paradox Haze isn't currently an issue since it doesn't add real upkeeps, just approximates them.