tjtillman wrote:r34024
Looks like something funny is going on with
Vizier of the Menagerie. Somehow it thinks it can cast a bunch of creatures?
Pitiless Vizier and two Blighted Bats are in CPU's graveyard, but it thinks I can cast them for their same cost in colorless.
Yeah, this is just one more of those MayPlay shenanigans that I've seen with other cards before too (e.g.
Aluren). MayPlay needs an update, and I know that it was in Hanmac's plans to look into it when he has time, but he hasn't yet found an opportunity to do it. :/ It's probably possible to temporarily rig it in a way similar to
Aluren, but that'll make it impossible to cast spells for colorless mana from under it when there's an effect legally allowing you to cast spells from graveyard. Unfortunately, the way things currently stand, the AI will abuse this given an opportunity to do so (will cast cards from everywhere, most likely, since there's nothing that prohibits it from doing so, so why not).
+1 to possibly prioritizing fixes for this and other similar cards, if at all possible.
(I'd do it myself but, sadly, I tried tinkiering with it in the past and it was way beyond my understanding of that area of code to figure out how to properly make it work without breaking even more things).
EDIT: Temporarily suppressed allowing to cast cards from zones other than hand (similar to
Aluren) to prevent AI abuse. Still needs correction and update for MayPlay to correctly implement interactions with effects allowing you to cast cards from graveyard, exile, etc.
- Agetian
Posted: 16 May 2017, 20:35
I'd really love someone else to look into this, maybe I don't understand what exactly can make this happen and under what circumstances (though it consistently seems to affect tjtillman) :/