MTGForge 01/15 (unofficial BETA) version

[DennisBergkamp]

Akroma, Angel of Fury was mistakenly given First Strike and Vigilance. I took a look at Akroma, Angel of Wrath and see that First Strike was not added. It should be easy enough to fix at some point.

Ahhh, I added it to the wrong Akroma

[Chris H.]

There were a total of 29 new cards added in this version. I will attempt to list them here. I see that all of the cards are highlighted.

Anaba Shaman
Ancient Spider
Boros Swiftblade
Brainstorm
Elvish Archers
Elvish Farmer
Enchantress's Presence
Hanna, Ship's Navigator
Hunted Dragon
Jedit Ojanen of Efrava
Jeska, Warrior Adept
Kher Keep
Kobold Overlord
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
Mirri, Cat Warrior
Mycologist
Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
Pallid Mycoderm
Preeminent Captain
Psychotrope Thallid
Rafiq of the Many
Razorfin Hunter
Reki, the History of Kamigawa
Sleight of Hand
Steel Leaf Paladin
Thallid
Thallid Shell-Dweller
Vedalken Archmage
Viashino Fangtail

[Chris H.]

I searched through the card data base and found a long list of cards that can be added via the keywords. I performed the search using only the words First Strike and Double Strike. I added to this list a half dozen pump creatures that would not work with the old version of pump. I will need some time to finish and play test these cards.

There are still some cards that I have not searched for that would work with Rob's KPump or PTKpump keywords. I am not sure if I will be able to look for and find these other cards at this time.

Ambush Party
Anaba Bodyguard
Angel of Retribution
Battlefield Percher
Benalish Knight
Capashen Knight
Cavern Thoctar
Char-Rumbler
Coiled Tinviper
Ekundu Griffin
Emerald Dragonfly
Foxfire Oak
Ghor-Clan Bloodscale
Goblin Berserker
Goblin Striker
Halberdier
Hornet Cobra
Kjeldoran Gargoyle
Knight of Meadowgrain
Land Leeches
Lightning Hounds
Lim-Dul's High Guard
Longbow Archer
Macetail Hystrodon
Mantis Engine
Nightguard Patrol
Noble Panther
Pardic Collaborator
Pegasus Charger
Plover Knights
Ramirez DePietro
Ranger en-Vec
Razorfoot Griffin
Ridgetop Raptor
Rune-Cervin Rider
Sabertooth Wyvern
Sabretooth Tiger
Sandstone Warrior
Sanguine Guard
Serra Zealot
Shimmering Barrier
Sigiled Paladin
Sky Spirit
Skyhunter Patrol
Skyhunter Skirmisher
Stone-Throwing Devils
Talonrend
Thunder Spirit
Titanium Golem
Tundra Wolves
Tyrranax
Volcano Imp
Wall of Razors
Wall of Spears
Wild Aesthir
Youthful Knight

[Rob Cashwalker]

Foxfire Oak, Rune-Cervin Rider and Talonrend would require hybrid mana.

[Chris H.]

Foxfire Oak, Rune-Cervin Rider and Talonrend would require hybrid mana.

I have an uneloquent solution to this challenge. It is something of a hack but I think that it may work:

Foxfire Oak
5 G
Creature Treefolk Shaman
no text
3/6
PTPump R R R: 3/0
PTPump R R G: 3/0
PTPump R G G: 3/0
PTPump G G G: 3/0

Rune-Cervin Rider
3 W
Creature Elf Knight
no text
2/2
Flying
PTPump G G: 1/1
PTPump G W: 1/1
PTPump W W: 1/1

Talonrend
4 U
Creature Elemental
no text
0/5
Flying
PTPump U: +1/-1
PTPump R: +1/-1

EDIT: I belatedly remembered to change the pump keyword to the new PTPump. The above hack may cause something of a problem for the AI. The computer may choose to only use the first PTPump command and ignore the rest. These three cards will need to be play tested to see how well they will work.

[Chris H.]

I had an Elvish Farmer in play with 3 spore counters. During upkeep I choose to "Remove three spore counters from Elvish Farmer: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token into play." While this was on the stack I choose this option a second time.

I received two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens and my Elvish Farmer's spore counter read: "Spore counters: -3"

[Chris H.]

Looking through cards.txt I find that the following pump creatures still have the old style pump command. I think that the rest of the pump creatures have been converted to the new keywords.

Angelfire Crusader
Darkling Stalker
Furnace Spirit
Hellkite Overlord
Nantuko Shade
Viashivan Dragon


The six creatures listed above display something similar to the Angelfire Crusader's text display:

"Pump W: 0/1"


While the Shivan Dragon's text correctly displays:

"R: Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

[DennisBergkamp]

I had an Elvish Farmer in play with 3 spore counters. During upkeep I choose to "Remove three spore counters from Elvish Farmer: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token into play." While this was on the stack I choose this option a second time.

I received two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens and my Elvish Farmer's spore counter read: "Spore counters: -3"

Oooh, that's not good... I'll fix this.

[GandoTheBard]

Again posted these bugs in the BUG REPORT thread. Please Chris do so, so that it is easier for me to track them.

[Chris H.]

Again posted these bugs in the BUG REPORT thread. Please Chris do so, so that it is easier for me to track them.

I admit to being confused about this matter. Sorry about that.

For a short while I thought that the long term bugs could be reported in the BUG REPORT thread while the BETA bugs would likely be short term and as such they could be posted here.

Unfortunately, I find that I am unable to predict which bugs will be long term and which will be short term.

I will try to remember to post all future bug reports to the BUG REPORT thread.

[Chris H.]

Chris's card-pictures.txt works, in MTGForge. However the cardset editor can't read it properly because many lines were terminated with a LF character, instead of the CR/LF sequence it is expecting.

Attached to the end of this message is the file "DataFiles0115_v1.zip" which contains repaired versions of the cards.txt and card-pictures.txt files.

I found an option in my text editor to change the end of line characters to windows friendly CR/LF. My files should now be compatible with Rob's card editing utility.

I repaired the entries in the cards.txt file for the following cards and I moved these cards to the very top of the cards.txt file:

Akroma, Angel of Fury removed "First Strike" and "Vigilance"
Akroma, Angel of Wrath added "First Strike"
Angelfire Crusader changed "Soldier" to "Human Soldier Knight" and changed "Pump W: 0/1" to "PTPump R:+1/+0"
Aven Flock changed "Bird Soldie" to "Bird Soldier"
Aven Riftwatcher removed " -"
Darkling Stalker changed "Pump B: 1/1" to "PTPump B:+1/+1"
Furnace Spirit changed "Pump R: 1/0" to "PTPump R:+1/+0"
Hellkite Overlord changed "Pump R: 1/0" to "PTPump R:+1/+0"
Jungle Barrier changed "Wall" to "Plant Wall"
Loxodon Stalwart changed "Elephant Soldire" to "Elephant Soldier"
Nantuko Shade changed "Pump B: 1/1" to "PTPump B:+1/+1"
Psychotrope Thallid changed "Creature Funger" to "Creature Fungus"
Thallid Shell-Dweller now has Defender
Thunder Wall now has Flying
Viashino Slasher changed "PTPump R:+1/+1" to "PTPump R:+1/-1"
Viashivan Dragon changed "Pump R: 1/0" to "PTPump R:+1/+0" and changed "Pump G: 0/1" to "PTPump G:+0/+1"
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[DennisBergkamp]

Doh! I already made those changes on my cards.txt, Chris
Next time I'll try to post that I did ...

[Chris H.]

Doh! I already made those changes on my cards.txt, Chris
Next time I'll try to post that I did ...

That's OK.

You may want to check my list. I found a few miss-spellings that are not important at this time - but all we need is a new card referring to a sub-type.

I'm also waiting to see if my files are now compatible with Rob's card editor.

[Almost_Clever]

Along those lines there is a Needlepeak Spider and a Needlespeak Spider.
Breathstealer should get +1/-1 instead of +1/+0.
Sprout Swarm has two problems. Typo ("grean" vs. "green") and the tokens are insects instead of saprolings. The tokens have been insects since Sprout Swarm was first added to MTG Forge, but saprolings matter now.

(I'll post the bugs in the current bugs thread as well.)

[Chris H.]

Along those lines there is a Needlepeak Spider and a Needlespeak Spider.
Breathstealer should get +1/-1 instead of +1/+0.
Sprout Swarm has two problems. Typo ("grean" vs. "green") and the tokens are insects instead of saprolings. The tokens have been insects since Sprout Swarm was first added to MTG Forge, but saprolings matter now.

(I'll post the bugs in the current bugs thread as well.)

Thank you for the report. I will let Dennis handle your corrections.

I see that my list of creatures that can be added via the keywords continue to grow longer. I should concentrate on adding a few of these each day. I should have a finished product within a week or two with luck.