Forge Beta: 12-13-2013 ver 1.5.7
Posted: 13 Dec 2013, 16:33Forge Beta: 12-13-2013 ver 1.5.7
13406 cards in total.
Release Notes
- Game usability/speed improvements -
When paying mana costs, you can now press Enter/Spacebar or click the Auto button in the Prompt to automatically pay the mana cost using available mana sources if possible.
- The Auto button will be disabled if you cannot pay the mana cost at that time, in which case Enter/Spacebar will cancel the spell/ability instead.
- Uses the same logic the AI uses to pay mana costs. This means it will try to use mana in your pool before mana sources in play, using colorless mana to pay the colorless part of the cost if any is available.
- You can still manually pay the cost by clicking mana sources in play (e.g. lands) or clicking symbols in your mana pool, which might be a good idea if you want to save specific mana sources for a later play that turn.
You can now press Ctrl+Z to undo tapping mana sources. (currently limited to before spell cast)
You will no longer be prompted when using a "Add one of any color" ability to pay a colorless cost.
- Note: you'll still be prompted when paying Sunburst or cards that care what colors are spent to cast it (ex. Firespout).
You can now press Escape to Cancel the current prompt even if the OK button has focus.
Cards will now return to the same position in your hand if you cancel while paying their mana cost or choosing targets.
Optional triggered abilities now use Prompt pane for Yes/No confirmation instead of a dialog.
Cost-related confirmations such as "Sacrifice CARDNAME?" and "Pay X Life?" now use Prompt pane instead of a dialog.
You'll no longer be prompted for attackers if you have no creatures that can attack.
You'll no longer be prompted for blockers if you have no creatures that can block any attacking creature.
- Deck Editor filtering -
Multi-color cards containing a filtered color will no longer show up in catalogs.
Hybrid cards, split cards, and phyrexian cards will now show up so long as the card can be cast using only selected colors.
- For split cards, each side of the card is checked individually, so Life // Death will appear if either
or 
is selected.
- Note that if the multicolor button is deselected (such that multicolor cards are filtered out), hybrid and split cards with multiple colors will still be hidden.
To improve usability, right-clicking a color filter button will now also select the multicolor button so hybrids and split cards appear by default, and so 2 color cards show up if you then left click a second color filter button.
- Constructed mode -
Recently a change was made to the constructed mode and this change now allows you to have up to 8 players rather than just two. The game formats that are located in the variants mode also allow up to eight players. The current user interface for this feature is fairly basic and is not very attractive. The settings tab allows you to set the number of opponents. The player tabs includes the same options that you used to see in the constructed mode.
Marc recently sketched out a couple of attractive mockups that look far more attractive than what we are now using. We just need someone with java skills and swing experience to modify the existing code.
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=12609#p138913
- Commander 2013 cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Commander 2013 cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.
New Cards
Known Issues
Contributors to This Release
DrDev
Gos
Max
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
Chris H
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
(Thanks to the MAGE team for permission to use their targeting arrows.)
(Thanks to http://www.freesound.org/browse/ for providing some sound files.)
The links to the various archives:
13406 cards in total.
Release Notes
- Game usability/speed improvements -
When paying mana costs, you can now press Enter/Spacebar or click the Auto button in the Prompt to automatically pay the mana cost using available mana sources if possible.
- The Auto button will be disabled if you cannot pay the mana cost at that time, in which case Enter/Spacebar will cancel the spell/ability instead.
- Uses the same logic the AI uses to pay mana costs. This means it will try to use mana in your pool before mana sources in play, using colorless mana to pay the colorless part of the cost if any is available.
- You can still manually pay the cost by clicking mana sources in play (e.g. lands) or clicking symbols in your mana pool, which might be a good idea if you want to save specific mana sources for a later play that turn.
You can now press Ctrl+Z to undo tapping mana sources. (currently limited to before spell cast)
You will no longer be prompted when using a "Add one of any color" ability to pay a colorless cost.
- Note: you'll still be prompted when paying Sunburst or cards that care what colors are spent to cast it (ex. Firespout).
You can now press Escape to Cancel the current prompt even if the OK button has focus.
Cards will now return to the same position in your hand if you cancel while paying their mana cost or choosing targets.
Optional triggered abilities now use Prompt pane for Yes/No confirmation instead of a dialog.
Cost-related confirmations such as "Sacrifice CARDNAME?" and "Pay X Life?" now use Prompt pane instead of a dialog.
You'll no longer be prompted for attackers if you have no creatures that can attack.
You'll no longer be prompted for blockers if you have no creatures that can block any attacking creature.
- Deck Editor filtering -
Multi-color cards containing a filtered color will no longer show up in catalogs.
Hybrid cards, split cards, and phyrexian cards will now show up so long as the card can be cast using only selected colors.
- For split cards, each side of the card is checked individually, so Life // Death will appear if either
or is selected.- Note that if the multicolor button is deselected (such that multicolor cards are filtered out), hybrid and split cards with multiple colors will still be hidden.
To improve usability, right-clicking a color filter button will now also select the multicolor button so hybrids and split cards appear by default, and so 2 color cards show up if you then left click a second color filter button.
- Constructed mode -
Recently a change was made to the constructed mode and this change now allows you to have up to 8 players rather than just two. The game formats that are located in the variants mode also allow up to eight players. The current user interface for this feature is fairly basic and is not very attractive. The settings tab allows you to set the number of opponents. The player tabs includes the same options that you used to see in the constructed mode.
Marc recently sketched out a couple of attractive mockups that look far more attractive than what we are now using. We just need someone with java skills and swing experience to modify the existing code.
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=12609#p138913
- Commander 2013 cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Commander 2013 cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.
New Cards
- Cards list | Open
Known Issues
- Issues list | Open
Contributors to This Release
DrDev
Gos
Max
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
Chris H
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
(Thanks to the MAGE team for permission to use their targeting arrows.)
(Thanks to http://www.freesound.org/browse/ for providing some sound files.)
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 12/13/2013 Windows and Linux archive (requires java 7):
forge-1.5.7.tar.bz2 (34.8 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 12/13/2013 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
We are not able to provide a Mac OS application package at this time. Please download the archive above and launch the forge jar file by double clicking on the "forge.command" launcher command file that is included in the archive.
