Granting abilities with stPump

[Sloth]

I've just made a first draft to implement cards like Armor Sliver. I used a reference to a SVar which contains the ability. The spellAbility granted has the type "Temporary" and will be removed every status check. Example:

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Name:Armor Sliver
ManaCost:2 W
Types:Creature Sliver
Text:no text
PT:2/2
K:stPumpAll:Creature.Sliver:0/0/SVar=Pump:no Condition:All Sliver creatures have "2 This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn."
SVar:Pump:AB$Pump | Cost$ 2 | NumDef$ +1 | SpellDescription$ CARDNAME gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
SVar:Rarity:Uncommon
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/armor_sliver.jpg
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The word "Pump" can be anything (just like for the Trigger and DB system).
Any comments or suggestions?

[Rob Cashwalker]

Precisely as I intended.

[friarsol]

Looks good. I just checked and didn't notice any cards that grant abilities with limited uses (like Rootwalla) as a static effect which is the strangest interaction I can think of between the temporariness of the AB.

[Hellfish]

Not sure how to best phrase this... Is it recursive? I.e. can it grab eventual other SVars referenced by the ability, say for a subability?

[Sloth]

Not sure how to best phrase this... Is it recursive? I.e. can it grab eventual other SVars referenced by the ability, say for a subability?

I guess subabilities should work, since they are created together with the ability. XCount SVar's will not work, since they won't get copied onto the affected card.

[Hellfish]

Maybe being able to specify a list of SVars to "pump" as well would help that, both subabilities and Count$'s?

[lazylockie]

So even stuff like Necrotic Sliver would work now? Nice!

On a side note, this makes one step closer to Koth of the Hammer with triggers!

[Sloth]

Maybe being able to specify a list of SVars to "pump" as well would help that, both subabilities and Count$'s?

Yes that would be possible. I have some ideas how to handle that.

EDIT: This feature is also complete. If the SVar specified in the keyword section is no ability it will be copied as an SVar to the affected card.

Example:

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Name:Magma Sliver
ManaCost:3 R
Types:Creature Sliver
Text:no text
PT:3/3
K:stPumpAll:Sliver:0/0/SVar=Pump & SVar=SliversOnBattlefield:no Condition:All Slivers have "T: Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield."
SVar:Pump:AB$Pump | Cost$ T | ValidTgts$ Creature.Sliver | NumAtt$ +SliversOnBattlefield | SpellDescription$ Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield.
SVar:SliversOnBattlefield:Count$TypeOnBattlefield.Sliver
SVar:Rarity:Rare
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/magma_slive.jpg
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Just be sure to give the SVar to copy a unique name not to overwrite other SVar's.

[Zirbert]

This is terrific. I had been looking longingly at Necrotic Sliver, but didn't see a way to make it work before now. Thanks to all involved!

-Zirbert

[Rob Cashwalker]

Now just need to make the same theory work for AB$Pump