Charming

[Sloth]

I just wanted to mention that one of the features of the ability factory that Sol forecasted now "magicaly works": Charms.

Example:

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Name:Evolution Charm
ManaCost:1 G
Types:Instant
Text:no text
A:SP$Fetch|Cost$1 G|Destination$Hand|FetchType$Land.Basic|FetchNum$1|PrecostDesc$Choose one - |SpellDescription$Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library;
A:SP$Retrieve|Cost$1 G|TgtPrompt$Choose target creature card in your graveyard|ValidTgts$Creature|Destination$Hand|SpellDescription$or return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand;
A:SP$Pump|Cost$1 G|ValidTgts$Creature|KW$Flying|TgtPrompt$Select target creature|SpellDescription$or target creature gains flying until end of turn.
SVar:RemAIDeck:True
SVar:Rarity:Common
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/evolution_charm.jpg
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¡muchas gracias Sol!

[friarsol]

Hah. Rob did most of the work setting it up, it just seemed apparent that we'd be able to use it better than other forms of Abilities.

I'm not sure if we do this now, but we should probably change the AI code to grab all the SAs on all it's cards, filter all them down to the playable ones and then choose which one to play. This would allow them to play all of the abilities of Charms.

I'm not certain this doesn't happen now, but I recall that Funeral Charm had a restriction where the AI would only play the first choice.

[Rob Cashwalker]

But what doesn't work is AI for charms.

We could have done simple charms like this before with the keyword approach.

The magic of the ability factory is that it will provide the ability in a uniform manner to anybody who asks for one.
Therefore, I intended that a specific Charm Ability be created. It would link to SVar's containing the actual ability strings. Its AI would query each of the ability's AI function, then choose 1 (or 2) of any that return true. Its resolve method would call upon the resolve of the chosen ability.

Edit - Guess I took too long to type...