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Current version: When my creature blocks, it asks me "Do you want to pay 0?".

Hi, hope I'm right here...

I'm using r25182, and I've noticed that "Shards of Alara"'s Heralds (e.g. Angel's Herald) don't work properly:
-- The AI seems to get away just sacrificing one 3-colored creature instead of 1 per color.
-- When I tried to mimic this myself, I tapped the lands to pay the mana cost, then it told me to sac a green creature (I was using Angel's Herald), so I sacced Rhox War Monk. It then told me to sac a white creature, so I did. And then it noticed I didn't have a blue creature, so it cancelled by untapping my lands, but the sacced creatures stayed in the graveyard.

I also noticed that the Scheme "Plots That Span Centuries" sometimes works overtime: It checks the next three schemes (call them ABC), then asks the player to assign stack order, but sometimes the list doesn't say ABC, but ABBBC, allowing the use of the second scheme thrice.

swordshine wrote:Current version: When my creature blocks, it asks me "Do you want to pay 0?".

This is a feature, not a bug (really!). You can switch it off in the preferences in "Gameplay" by checking "Free Block Handling".
Turns out it is a bug. Carry on.

KrazyTheFox wrote:

swordshine wrote:Current version: When my creature blocks, it asks me "Do you want to pay 0?".

This is a feature, not a bug (really!). You can switch it off in the preferences in "Gameplay" by checking "Free Block Handling".

No, it was a bug, it should only be showing up in rarer circumstances.

friarsol wrote:No, it was a bug, it should only be showing up in rarer circumstances.

Ah, in that case, I misread the code. I had hoped to get off to a better start than that for my first post.
I'll keep poking around at some UI improvements/options and maybe make a better first impression there, heh.

KrazyTheFox wrote:

friarsol wrote:No, it was a bug, it should only be showing up in rarer circumstances.

Ah, in that case, I misread the code. I had hoped to get off to a better start than that for my first post.
I'll keep poking around at some UI improvements/options and maybe make a better first impression there, heh.

The setting you reference does what you say. But players don't have to pay mana for blocking at all times. Needing to pay 0 mana to block comes up if someone activates War Cadence for 0.

Description:

Use Hidden Strings with Cipher and Encode it to one of your creatures.
Attack with that and cast copy of spell.
use Nivmagus Elemental to exile the copy.

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Forge Version:    1.5.15-SNAPSHOT-r25224 (mixed revisions detected; please update from the root directory)
Operating System: Linux 3.11.0-17-lowlatency amd64
Java Version:     1.7.0_51 Oracle Corporation

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at forge.game.zone.MagicStack.remove(MagicStack.java:729)
   at forge.game.cost.CostExile.doPayment(CostExile.java:213)
   at forge.game.cost.CostPartWithList.executePayment(CostPartWithList.java:98)
   at forge.game.cost.CostPartWithList.executePayment(CostPartWithList.java:110)
   at forge.game.cost.CostPartWithList.payAsDecided(CostPartWithList.java:127)
   at forge.game.cost.CostPayment.payCost(CostPayment.java:138)
   at forge.gui.player.HumanPlaySpellAbility.playAbility(HumanPlaySpellAbility.java:92)
   at forge.gui.player.HumanPlay.playSpellAbility(HumanPlay.java:98)
   at forge.gui.player.PlayerControllerHuman.playChosenSpellAbility(PlayerControllerHuman.java:678)
   at forge.game.phase.PhaseHandler.startFirstTurn(PhaseHandler.java:968)
   at forge.game.GameAction.startGame(GameAction.java:1524)
   at forge.game.Match.startGame(Match.java:80)
   at forge.control.FControl$4.run(FControl.java:438)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)


I'm not sure what to think about this situation: either this is a bug, or a ridiculous rule in Magic

Was playing a draft tourney, and game 1 of my match ended in a draw. The AI won game 2 (I should've mulliganed and didn't). Then I won game 3.

Now, the match is 1-1, and my intuition would say that a 4th game should occur as a "tiebreaker."
However, Forge considers the situation a loss for me, only giving me the option to quit or retry.

A bug or a feature?

- Agetian

Agetian wrote:I'm not sure what to think about this situation: either this is a bug, or a ridiculous rule in Magic

Was playing a draft tourney, and game 1 of my match ended in a draw. The AI won game 2 (I should've mulliganed and didn't). Then I won game 3.

Now, the match is 1-1, and my intuition would say that a 4th game should occur as a "tiebreaker."
However, Forge considers the situation a loss for me, only giving me the option to quit or retry.

Since when does Forge support draws? Wasn't it always treated like a loss?

Sloth wrote:

Agetian wrote:I'm not sure what to think about this situation: either this is a bug, or a ridiculous rule in Magic

Was playing a draft tourney, and game 1 of my match ended in a draw. The AI won game 2 (I should've mulliganed and didn't). Then I won game 3.

Now, the match is 1-1, and my intuition would say that a 4th game should occur as a "tiebreaker."
However, Forge considers the situation a loss for me, only giving me the option to quit or retry.

Since when does Forge support draws? Wasn't it always treated like a loss?

To be honest, not sure. I think it's the first time ever I've had a draw situation that I had to pay specific attention to, so I have no idea whether it was supposed to be treated like a draw or like a loss, all I know is that neither me nor the AI opponent got a point, so I thought it's a draw. The weird thing was that the scoreboard was showing "1 - 1" (as if game 2 *was* a draw) but Forge considered I lost the best of three as if it were 1 - 2 (and the second game was indeed considered a loss).

- Agetian

r25273: An unusual thing happened to me today, haven't seen this before (ever, I think). When the AI played a morph creature face-down it came into play but did not show any properties on the card such as power and toughness (2/2) or its card ID. I'm sure it was purely visual, the card behaved normally.

Screenshot:


- Agetian

@Agetian - I must have caused that unintentionally by a recent fix of mine. I'll look into it.

r25302: Card error: Swirling Sandstorm shows up in shop/editors as an instant while the card itself is a sorcery.

First post and forgive me for posting a bug that I know must have been answered before but I really don't want to trawl through 189 pages of posts.

I just upgraded to 1.5.15 and now I'm getting the following error when pressing the Start button on a 'Quick Gauntlet'. It happens every time, so Forge is unusable for me at present. There were no errors on the previous version, but it's been a few months since I upgraded.

Hoping you can help.


Description: [describe what you were doing when the crash occurred]

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Forge Version:    1.5.15-r25277
Operating System: Windows 7 6.1 x86
Java Version:     1.7.0_51 Oracle Corporation

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at forge.gui.toolbox.special.CardZoomer.toggleCardImage(CardZoomer.java:294)
   at forge.gui.toolbox.special.CardZoomer.access$100(CardZoomer.java:45)
   at forge.gui.toolbox.special.CardZoomer$1.keyPressed(CardZoomer.java:94)
   at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.keyPressed(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.processKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.preDispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)


Currently using r25356. I have an opponent's creature enchanted with Weight of Conscience. Now I want to use its ability to remove the creature from the game, and it looks like there's no way to activate that ability (I have two untapped creatures that share their type on the battlefield). Clicking on the enchantment card does nothing, nor does clicking on the opponent's creature or on the untapped creatures I would use to pay the cost. Am I missing something or is it a bug with the card?

- Agetian