BotArena Bugs

[timmermac]

Wound Reflection does not count life loss from Magister Sphinx, and my Hypergenesis deck seems to get Game Engine Exceptions ("The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual adress for which it does not have appropiate access") pretty often, involving Wound Reflection and Boggardan Hellkite.
Also, Demonic Dread can be cast at instant speed for some reason.

I also get that particular Game Engine Exception from time to time with my Sliver deck. I'm thinking it may be because my computer's a few years old and needs to have more than 1 GB of RAM...

[FranAvalon]

The program won't let you select a land to untap when say Winter Orb is in play. It auto selects the land for you even with auto off and all actions on.

With Winter orb in play, just uncheck untap on action window. The you will be asked for which land you want untap. Same for other untap limit cards.

[Cagan]

When Two-Headed Sliver (or any other sliver under its effect) attacks, the Computer regularly attempts to block it with one creature. The program properly removes the illegal blocker but the blocked sliver is still treated as having been blocked and thus does no damage to the opposing player.

An example in case that's confusing: I attack with Two-Headed Sliver. The Computer attempts to block the sliver with, say a single Llanowar Elves. The chat shows that Llanowar Elves was removed as a legal blocker, leaving the Two-Headed Sliver unblocked. However, the Computer does not lose any life from the now unblocked sliver.

[Replika]

How do I get two artifact creatures back with Remember the Fallen? If I target one of them, I don't get the option to target the other one, too.

Edit: Suture Priest gave me a life for my opponents Porcelain Legionnaire. Also, its dialog for the lose-1-life-effect said "Select [CPU] for the effect" and not just "Resolves triggered ability".

I hope I didn't delay 1.29.1 with a minor bug like this...

[FranAvalon]

I will try to fix both before release tomorrow night, but i dont promise it. Thx for your report.

[FranAvalon]

Suture Priest and Remember the Fallen fixed on 1.29.1

[Happy Cat]

Knight of Meadowgrain (3/3, buffed) killed 1/1 creature.
I got 3 life. Is this really correct behaviour for lifelink?

[Marek14]

Knight of Meadowgrain (3/3, buffed) killed 1/1 creature.
I got 3 life. Is this really correct behaviour for lifelink?

Yes, why shouldn't it be?

[Replika]

Yes. Lifelink gains you life equal to the amount of damage dealt by your creature. That usually means that you gain life equal to its power. It doesn't matter if the creature blocking yours has less toughness than yours has power. Lightning Bolt for example deals 3 damage to one-toughness-creatures just fine, so why shouldn't your Knight of Meadowgrain do that too?

[Replika]

1.29.1
Scrapyard Salvo can be cast at instant speed (Yay for my Pauper 53 land combo deck!).

Edit: I'll go ahead and NOT do the triple post, alright?
Inkmoth Nexus does not work properly with Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas. You should have a 5/5 artifact land creature after your turn. However, the Inkmoth animation token simply vanishes.

[Cagan]

Version 1.29.1

Had something go weird when the computer cast Heedless One. I attached the game log. On the battlefield the computer had : (1) Joraga Warcaller (with two Presence of Gond auras and no +1/+1 counters) (1) Imperious Perfect and (3) 1/1 elf warrior tokens.

Computer turn 6:
00:00:14
Computer played Forest8
Computer cast Heedless One (At this point showed that it was a 14/14, which is twice what it should have been)
00:00:40
Computer attacked User with Joraga Warcaller(2/2)
User blocked Joraga Warcaller(2/2) with Myr Enforcer(4/4)
Computer assigned combat damage from Joraga Warcaller(2/2): 2 damage to Myr Enforcer(4/4)
User assigned combat damage from Myr Enforcer(4/4): 4 damage to Joraga Warcaller(2/2)

The Joraga Warcaller died and went to the graveyard, but for some reason the three elf warrior tokens and the Imperious Perfect died as well. The Heedless One dropped to a 1/1 since it was the only elf left (which implies that it isn't double counting the elves, as it seemed it was when it was first cast).

[FranAvalon]

1.29.1
Scrapyard Salvo can be cast at instant speed (Yay for my Pauper 53 land combo deck!).

Will be fixed on 1.30.1

[araiwah]

Hi FranAvalon,

Firstly, I want to say, "great job" on Bot Arena. It is a wonderful program and I hope you are able to find the programming support you need to keep this project going full throttle.

That being said, I believe I have spotted a bug with Tectonic Edge. Quite simply, it doesn't work. I play it and I cannot tap it for mana or do anything with it. I believe this bug was not present in 1.28.1, since I've played around with decks with Tectonic Edge before (although I could be mistaken). Regardless, it definitely does not work for me in 1.29.1.

Thank you again for the effort you put into this.

[FranAvalon]

Hi FranAvalon,

Firstly, I want to say, "great job" on Bot Arena. It is a wonderful program and I hope you are able to find the programming support you need to keep this project going full throttle.

That being said, I believe I have spotted a bug with Tectonic Edge. Quite simply, it doesn't work. I play it and I cannot tap it for mana or do anything with it. I believe this bug was not present in 1.28.1, since I've played around with decks with Tectonic Edge before (although I could be mistaken). Regardless, it definitely does not work for me in 1.29.1.

Thank you again for the effort you put into this.

Thx for your comments. We are trying to do a nice app

About the Tectonic Edge bug, I can't reproduce it in my computer (check my attachment). If you can, please check that gamelog to confirm if AI have some nonbasic lands (maybe all was basic lands)

[araiwah]

Hi FranAvalon,

I think I know what my "problem" is:

Does BotArena NOT allow you tap a non-basic land for mana when you don't have a legal target to cast a spell?

For example: I have two lands - 1 black, 1 tectonic edge. The basic Swamp is tappable because I have 1B spells to cast (i.e. Duress), but the tectonic edge is greyed out because even though I have enough mana to cast Go For the Throat, there are no creatures on the battlefield.
Is this working as intended?

If this is how the program is coded, then there is no problem then. Working as intended. My mistake

Thanks again for your efforts and keep up the good work.

Also - while I'm posting, I'd like to ask you 2 questions if you don't mind:

1. I was curious to know whether there is a place for downloading the Full art for the M12 & COM cards that you have recently released, since to my knowledge, I couldn't find any files on the page with the links on it. Maybe some of them (M12) are too new?

2. Are the cards from the BOA Expansions made up by you? I've never seen Sheila, Recycler of Dreams before.

Sorry for the bombarding questions. I'm a newbie when it comes to all this.

Thanks again.