Card AI (Improvements) Requests

[Sloth]

Here's another one: the AI just enchanted a Misty Rainforest with Leafdrake Roost, and then as soon as the attachment resolved (same phase) sacrificed the Misty Rainforest. The choice of land for the Roost wasn't bad, actually, since it didn't need any mana fixing.

Fixed! Thanks Diogenes.

duty-bound death most of time doesent attack even if i dont got any monsters in play or only got a planeswalker in play it could attack for 1 because it has exalted plus ai has exalted lands in play for more attack bonus

Fixed! Thanks Milod. (Note that AI handling of exalted still needs some work).

[Milod]

when there are no more swamps to search for lililan of dark realms ability she always stays on 8 loyality vs my deck with no creatures it could at least use her ultimate for 7

[Milod]

ai doesent make use of faith reward

[Diogenes]

I've noticed that the AI regularly pays two life to bring pain-lands into play untapped, but the majority of the time it does not use those lands on that turn. Quite often I suspect it can't afford to play anything in its hand. I'll use dev mode to check its hand the next time it does this.

Edit: Got it in one! First turn AI drops an Overgrown Tomb with nothing under cmc 2 in hand.

Edit2: Next game, though, with two lands in play it allowed an Overgrown Tomb to come in tapped. This is unfortunate as the cheapest card in its hand (Tatterkite) is , and it's sitting on two useful four-cmc cards. This is a situation where it should take the two damage. It looks like it'll take the damage to get an early mana base down, but can't determine whether the land would enable it to play cards from its hand. Would something like this be possible Sloth?

[Sloth]

Here's another one: the AI just enchanted a Misty Rainforest with Leafdrake Roost, and then as soon as the attachment resolved (same phase) sacrificed the Misty Rainforest. The choice of land for the Roost wasn't bad, actually, since it didn't need any mana fixing.

Fixed! Thanks Diogenes.

duty-bound death most of time doesent attack even if i dont got any monsters in play or only got a planeswalker in play it could attack for 1 because it has exalted plus ai has exalted lands in play for more attack bonus

Fixed! Thanks Milod.

I've noticed that the AI regularly pays two life to bring pain-lands into play untapped, but the majority of the time it does not use those lands on that turn. Quite often I suspect it can't afford to play anything in its hand. I'll use dev mode to check its hand the next time it does this.

Edit: Got it in one! First turn AI drops an Overgrown Tomb with nothing under cmc 2 in hand.

Edit2: Next game, though, with two lands in play it allowed an Overgrown Tomb to come in tapped. This is unfortunate as the cheapest card in its hand (Tatterkite) is , and it's sitting on two useful four-cmc cards. This is a situation where it should take the two damage. It looks like it'll take the damage to get an early mana base down, but can't determine whether the land would enable it to play cards from its hand. Would something like this be possible Sloth?

This was some very old code that determined randomly to pay the life or not. The AI will now never pay the life until someone wants to add some smart code (maybe when RtR comes out).

[muppet]

I'd have thought a default of always paying the life was better actually ?

[friarsol]

I'd have thought a default of always paying the life was better actually ?

If there's going to be absolutely no logic, it's better if the AI can't kill themselves with the default choice.

[cc-drake]

AI shouldn't activate the Spikes (like Spike Weaver) to move +1/+1 counters onto itself...

[ZzzzSleep]

AI shouldn't activate the Spikes (like Spike Weaver) to move +1/+1 counters onto itself...

Unless it has Doubling Season in play, then it's an awesome move! But if we don't want to check for that, then defaulting to not "moving" a counter to itself sounds like a good idea.

[muppet]

It can't kill itself you can't pay life you don't have.

[Sloth]

It can't kill itself you can't pay life you don't have.

If a player has 2 life he can pay 2 life.

[muppet]

ahh right good point. Anyway my point is if the shock lands read these come into play tapped always they would never see constructed play.

How about a super easy algorithm for example if it is in the first 5 turns of the game always pay the life if it is later don't.

[friarsol]

In the WG Easy deck, when the AI plays Journeyer's Kite it pretty much doesn't do anything else for the next 4-5 turns. Since this is a reusable instant ability, we probably should reduce how often it gets played during the AIs turn, since it doesn't do anything to the board at all.

[cc-drake]

AI shouldn't cast Sculpting Steel when there is no artifact on the battlefield

[Sloth]

ahh right good point. Anyway my point is if the shock lands read these come into play tapped always they would never see constructed play.

How about a super easy algorithm for example if it is in the first 5 turns of the game always pay the life if it is later don't.

I've added some code that will make the AI pay the 2 life sometimes:

If the AI controls X lands (with the new Shockland) and has a card with converted cost X in hand it will pay the 2 life.

That should be acceptable, no?

In the WG Easy deck, when the AI plays Journeyer's Kite it pretty much doesn't do anything else for the next 4-5 turns. Since this is a reusable instant ability, we probably should reduce how often it gets played during the AIs turn, since it doesn't do anything to the board at all.

This should be fixed with r16299.