Magic Duels: Origins Announced

[Tejahn]

Ravaging Blaze

Indeed. I had a few creatures attacking with First Strike and Double Strike. Also, here is a card with Variable Mana Payment.

[sweetLu]

I noticed that blue text for Spell Mastery before. This may give us the ability for variable localized text or it may just be hard coded in there. Regardless, I hope they keep using this type of idea if they add in cards with dash, evoke, overload, etc.

[thefiremind]

Also, here is a card with Variable Mana Payment.

Isn't it just a pompous way to call ?

I noticed that blue text for Spell Mastery before. This may give us the ability for variable localized text or it may just be hard coded in there.

I'm really curious to see how that is handled internally.

On a different note, just a random thought by me: depending on how much freedom they have put in dual-faced cards support, it's possible that we could code morph by adding a back face to the cards with morph when they are cast... but we'd need a way to let only the controller look at the other face, which I don't think will be possible.

[Tejahn]

Also, here is a card with Variable Mana Payment.

Isn't it just a pompous way to call ?

That seems to be exactly the case.

On a different note, just a random thought by me: depending on how much freedom they have put in dual-faced cards support, it's possible that we could code morph by adding a back face to the cards with morph when they are cast... but we'd need a way to let only the controller look at the other face, which I don't think will be possible.

I need to sate my curiosity as well. And from what they're saying about adding cards over time, I believe Morph and other keywords will eventually surface. The functions for them may already be in place.

[Kithkin]

My guess is, keywords like Morph will never be in there. (a) it is way too complicated for beginners (b) it is way too complicated for Stainless (c) Morph won't return in new sets for many years to come

[Tejahn]

We may have to stick to the approximations then.

[sweetLu]

My suspicions seem to be correct! One of the columnists that have an early access steam key stated they could not find 3 or 4 player ffa. The patch they implemented to make "until your next turn" possible was to remove the game types that would cause an issue

[thefiremind]

It seems we finally have a date for the Steam release: July 29th, according to this article (scroll it to the end for the date).

[Chakan]

It's about time they gave us a release date. I was thinking they were going to shelf the game for a while or something.

[Tejahn]

It seems we finally have a date for the Steam release: July 29th, according to this article (scroll it to the end for the date).

So, it's releasing the same day as Windows 10...

[alexandreonly]

I love infect and wither, do you guys think these mechanics can be back in a future set for Duels?

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

I love infect and wither, do you guys think these mechanics can be back in a future set for Duels?

DOTP certainly support both mechanics. I'd say it's not out of the question (chances are they'll add some older cards to the Battle for Zendikar expansion).

[thefiremind]

I love infect and wither, do you guys think these mechanics can be back in a future set for Duels?

DOTP certainly support both mechanics. I'd say it's not out of the question (chances are they'll add some older cards to the Battle for Zendikar expansion).

I can answer with modding in mind: wither has no problems at all, while infect can be granted as a characteristic and it works rule-wise, but the problem is how the AI manages it, which has been quite disappointing in all previous versions. Sometimes it doesn't block infect creatures even if that means reaching 10 poison counters, sometimes it doesn't attack with infect creatures even if it's totally safe to do so, etc.. In the past I tried to make it a little better by giving the infect creatures a custom score based on the opponent's poison counters, but the enhancement was not very significant. I haven't tried to code infect creatures in DotP2015 yet, because my hopes for a change are very low.

Of course, if infect ever makes a comeback (Mark Rosewater loves poison, I'm sure he'll try to sneak it in again ), the developers will be forced to make it work better.

[GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

The AI seems to see infect creatures as the same as normal creatures with the same power. A quick and dirty fix could be to have the AI treat an infect creature as a creature with twice as much power (since you need 20 damage to die but only 10 poison counters): so Glistener Elf is treated as having a power 2 since it's a 1/1 infect, Corpse Cur is treated as a 4/2, and so on.

[Xander9009]

The AI seems to see infect creatures as the same as normal creatures with the same power. A quick and dirty fix could be to have the AI treat an infect creature as a creature with twice as much power (since you need 20 damage to die but only 10 poison counters): so Glistener Elf is treated as having a power 2 since it's a 1/1 infect, Corpse Cur is treated as a 4/2, and so on.

This would only work as a workaround if
A) You can in fact make the AI treat is as a creature with twice its power without actually changing its power.
B) The AI doesn't consider its life total when sizing up an attacking creature.

I believe the computer does consider its life total, meaning that while you initially need twice as much damage as poison counters to die, you may end up needing much less damage or much more damage than twice that number.