[fixed]Animate Dead + White Knight

[travolter]

Describe the Bug:
White Knight should go to the graveyard after cast Animate Dead over it


Which card did behave improperly?
Animate Dead or White Knight?

Which update are you using? (date, name)Which type? (duel, gauntlet, sealed deck)
Manalink dev version 250c78bd updated 11-5-19

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when ... imate-Dead

You cast Animate Dead targeting something with protection from black in the graveyard. Let’s say it’s a White Knight. White Knight is a valid target because protection only works on the battlefield. Animate Dead enters the battlefield and the enchant line changes to “enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead”. White Knight is returned to the battlefield. Animate Dead attempts to attach itself to White Knight, but due to protection from black, it can’t, because protection prevents black Auras from attaching. Animate Dead finishes resolving.

Before anyone gets priority, state-based actions are checked. Animate Dead is an Aura that is not attached to a “creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead”, so it’s put in the graveyard.

That triggers Animate Dead’s delayed trigger: “when Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature’s controller sacrifices it.” You must sacrifice White Knight.

So, overall, you managed to discard your Animate Dead for two mana, and give White Knight a brief glimpse of life.

You can see this as one of the Gatherer rulings for Animate Dead:

If the creature put onto the battlefield has protection from black—or if the creature can’t legally be enchanted by Animate Dead for another reason—Animate Dead won’t be able to attach to it. It will be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, causing its delayed triggered ability to trigger. When the trigger resolves, if the creature’s still on the battlefield, its controller will sacrifice it.

[Biggzlar]

Both Animate Dead and Dance of the Dead seem to be bugged as in, the creature you enchant with them is not being sacrificed when the enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Another case would be the combination of Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead / Dance of the Dead.

[Aswan jaguar]

Both Animate Dead and Dance of the Dead seem to be bugged as in, the creature you enchant with them is not being sacrificed when the enchantment leaves the battlefield.

I have already fixed this.

Another case would be the combination of Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead / Dance of the Dead.

However such combos, can't be made to work right in Manalink.

[joseluiselblanco]

I have a recent version and it wasn't fixed, I could animate a white knight and the knight stayed on the battlefield.

[Aswan jaguar]

I confirm it is bugged again in dev, too both Animate Dead and White Knight stay on the battlefield.

[drool66]

Only because Animate Dead never forwards to aura(). I think it can and should do so just at:

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if(!IS_GS_EVENT(player, card, event))
return aura(player, card, event, NULL, NULL);

and not at the general return - especially since it's only really an enchant creature on the BF. I don't see anything in IS_GS_EVENT() events that it would need or want from aura(), but Animate Dead is so weird I wouldn't trust that without more testing. This bug is solved by returning as above though.

[joseluiselblanco]

Also a creature with animate dead doesn't appear when attacking.

[drool66]

Also a creature with animate dead doesn't appear when attacking.

Fixed, unpushed.

[joseluiselblanco]

Also a creature with animate dead doesn't appear when attacking.

Fixed, unpushed.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what "unpushed" means.

[drool66]

It just means I haven't yet uploaded them to the server where the master files are kept. In other words, the bug is fixed, but only on my computer so far. It will be included in the next patch.

[joseluiselblanco]

Ok great!

[drool66]

Fixed. I believe both in 39f82f9

[joseluiselblanco]

I animated a Serra Angel and the game crashed.

bad parameters
get_card_instance(1, 184552193)
0: 0x0262BE09
1: 0x0261E403
2: 0x0261ED08
3: 0x025F1504
4: 0x0228AFA1
5: 0x0265A255
6: 0x02635ACC
7: 0x02636646
8: 0x026368E2
9: 0x02636939
10: 0x0261EFA3
11: 0x0260501A
12: 0x0260ABFA
13: 0x02445B89
14: 0x0265A255
15: 0x02635ACC
16: 0x02636265
17: 0x004368C6
18: 0x0261B904
19: 0x0043BFAA
20: 0x004399BD
21: 0x0047902C
22: 0x004946E9
23: 0x769EFA29
24: 0x77D37A9E
25: 0x77D37A6E

edit: tried another game, I animated other creatures but again a crash after trying to animate a Serra.
edit 2: I have the latest version released at Xmas.

[joseluiselblanco]

Got a crash while trying to animate a Juzam too.