Aggressive Mining

[volrathxp]

Hi! I'm new here, and learning how to code cards for dotp 2014.

So far most of the ones I've worked on I've been able to piece together, but the one that has been eluding me is Aggressive Mining from M15. I was wondering if someone might be able to push me in the right direction on this.

I get the activated ability just the not playing lands part. I haven't been able to find a good card that is close to it yet.

Thanks!

[thefiremind]

Giving CHARACTERISTIC_CANT_BE_PLAYED to all lands owned by the player who controls Aggressive Mining should do the trick, but affecting all zones sometimes gives problems, so let's keep it as last resort.

I think this might work:

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  <TRIGGERED_ABILITY replacement_effect="1">
    <TRIGGER value="CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST" simple_qualifier="controller" pre_trigger="1">
    if TriggerObject():GetCardType():Test(CARD_TYPE_LAND) then
       MTG():OverrideEvent()
       return true
    end
    return false
    </TRIGGER>
  </TRIGGERED_ABILITY>

Lands aren't "cast", but I have proof (the bug with Thalia, Guardian of Thraben) that the CONSIDERED_FOR_CAST trigger is fired for lands as well.

[volrathxp]

So, tried that. Didn't end up working. It still let me play a land.

How would I do it the other way? The "CHARACTERISTIC_CANT_BE_PLAYED" way that you mentioned?

I should also mention that when I used your web generator to download Aggressive Mining, it made the "You can't play lands portion" a static ability, so I had changed that to a triggered ability per your code block. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Also, bit of a sidenot but I'm also having awkward issues with Manaweft Sliver lol. I've looked at *several* tap for one mana of any color cards, and I can either get Manaweft's ability to function and add the mana but not tap the creature, or I can get it to tap and not actually produce any mana.

Manaweft Sliver code that grants the ability (this works, it looks like. Slivers do indeed acquire the ability when I test it.)

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    <FILTER filter_id="0">
    local filter = ClearFilter()
    filter:Add( FE_SUBTYPE, OP_IS, CREATURE_TYPE_SLIVER )
    filter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_CREATURE  )
    filter:Add( FE_CONTROLLER, OP_IS, EffectController())
    </FILTER>
    <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="6" filter_id="0">
    if FilteredCard() ~= nil then
       local characteristics = FilteredCard():GetCurrentCharacteristics()
       characteristics:GrantAbility(8)
    end
    </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>


The actual ability to tap for mana.

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<COST type="Generic">
      <PREREQUISITE>
    return EffectSource():IsTapped() == false and EffectController():IsAI() == false
    </PREREQUISITE>
      <RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
    EffectController():ChooseColour( "CARD_QUERY_CHOOSE_COLOUR", true )
    </RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
      <RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
    LinkedDC():Set_Int(0, GetChosenColour() )
    </RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
    </COST>
  </ACTIVATED_ABILITY>
  <STATIC_ABILITY linked_ability_group="1">
    <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="6">
    local colour = LinkedDC():Get_Int( 0 )
    local characteristics = EffectSource():GetCurrentCharacteristics()
    if colour ~= 0 then
      characteristics:GrantAbility(colour)
    else
      characteristics:GrantAbility(5)
    end
    </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>
  </STATIC_ABILITY>
  <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="1">
    <PRODUCES amount="{W}" />
  </MANA_ABILITY>
  <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="2">
    <PRODUCES amount="{U}" />
  </MANA_ABILITY>
  <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="3">
    <PRODUCES amount="{B}" />
  </MANA_ABILITY>
  <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="4">
    <PRODUCES amount="{R}" />
  </MANA_ABILITY>
  <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="5">
    <PRODUCES amount="{G}" />
  </MANA_ABILITY>

Edit: Really, thank you for the help here, it's greatly appreciated. I've been working on some M15 cards and I'm starting to really get the hang of things (I've got about 23 cards finished of various things) so it's awesome to get some perspective on things.

[thefiremind]

How would I do it the other way? The "CHARACTERISTIC_CANT_BE_PLAYED" way that you mentioned?

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  <STATIC_ABILITY>
    <FILTER filter_id="0">
    local filter = ClearFilter()
    filter:SetZone( ZONE_ANYWHERE )
    filter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_LAND )
    filter:Add( FE_OWNER, OP_IS, EffectController() )
    </FILTER>
    <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="8" filter_id="0">
    if FilteredCard() ~= nil then
       local characteristics = FilteredCard():GetCurrentCharacteristics()
       characteristics:Bool_Set( CHARACTERISTIC_CANT_BE_PLAYED, 1 )
    end
    </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>
  </STATIC_ABILITY>

It will fail with cards that let you play (not just put onto the battlefield) a land belonging to another player, but I can't think of any right now, and it's a necessary approximation if the other method doesn't work.

I should also mention that when I used your web generator to download Aggressive Mining, it made the "You can't play lands portion" a static ability, so I had changed that to a triggered ability per your code block. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Well, it is a static ability for Magic rules, but some static abilities get coded as triggered abilities in DotP (with the code above, it will be a static ability again).

Also, bit of a sidenot but I'm also having awkward issues with Manaweft Sliver lol. I've looked at *several* tap for one mana of any color cards, and I can either get Manaweft's ability to function and add the mana but not tap the creature, or I can get it to tap and not actually produce any mana.

All mana abilities prior to DotP2015 are restricted to 1 color, so you can't use mana abilities for that. You need to use manual mana functions, and I can't help because I have never used them. Search around the forums for manual mana functions, I'm sure you'll find examples.
Incidentally, Manaweft Sliver would be a breeze to code in DotP2015.

[RiiakShiNal]

Also, bit of a sidenot but I'm also having awkward issues with Manaweft Sliver lol. I've looked at *several* tap for one mana of any color cards, and I can either get Manaweft's ability to function and add the mana but not tap the creature, or I can get it to tap and not actually produce any mana.

All mana abilities prior to DotP2015 are restricted to 1 color, so you can't use mana abilities for that. You need to use manual mana functions, and I can't help because I have never used them. Search around the forums for manual mana functions, I'm sure you'll find examples.
Incidentally, Manaweft Sliver would be a breeze to code in DotP2015.

Well, if you want to use Manual Mana for Manaweft Sliver this would be the code for the mana production:

{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. | Open

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   <ACTIVATED_ABILITY forced_skip="1" resource_id="8">
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="en-US"><![CDATA[{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="fr-FR"><![CDATA[{T} : Ajoutez un mana de la couleur de votre choix à votre réserve.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="es-ES"><![CDATA[{T}: Agrega un maná de cualquier color a tu reserva de maná.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="de-DE"><![CDATA[{T}: Erhöhe deinen Manavorrat um ein Mana einer beliebigen Farbe.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="it-IT"><![CDATA[{T}: Aggiungi un mana di un qualsiasi colore alla tua riserva di mana.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="jp-JA"><![CDATA[{T}：あなたのマナ・プールに、好きな色１色のマナ１点を加える。]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="ko-KR"><![CDATA[{T}: 당신의 마나풀에 원하는 색의 마나 한 개를 담는다.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="ru-RU"><![CDATA[{T}: добавьте одну ману любого цвета в ваше хранилище маны.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="pt-BR"><![CDATA[{T}: Adicione um mana de qualquer cor à sua reserva de mana.]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="zh-CN"><![CDATA[{T}：加一点任意颜色的法术力到你的法术力池中。]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="zh-HK"><![CDATA[{T}：加一點任意顏色的魔法力到你的魔法力池中。]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PLAY_TIME_ACTION>
         RSN_MarkManaAbilityStart()
         local oPlayer = EffectController()
         local oCard = EffectSource()
         if (oPlayer ~= nil) then
            oPlayer:BeginNewMultipleChoice()
            oPlayer:AddMultipleChoiceAnswer( "RSN_MODE_PRODUCE_W" )
            oPlayer:AddMultipleChoiceAnswer( "RSN_MODE_PRODUCE_U" )
            oPlayer:AddMultipleChoiceAnswer( "RSN_MODE_PRODUCE_B" )
            oPlayer:AddMultipleChoiceAnswer( "RSN_MODE_PRODUCE_R" )
            oPlayer:AddMultipleChoiceAnswer( "RSN_MODE_PRODUCE_G" )
            oPlayer:AskMultipleChoiceQuestion( "MODE_CHOOSE_ONE", oCard )
         end
      </PLAY_TIME_ACTION>
      <RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
         local nColour = EffectController():GetMultipleChoiceResult() + 1
         if (nColour == COLOUR_BLACK) then
            RSN_Produce( "{B}", 1 )
         elseif (nColour == COLOUR_BLUE) then
            RSN_Produce( "{U}", 1 )
         elseif (nColour == COLOUR_GREEN) then
            RSN_Produce( "{G}", 1 )
         elseif (nColour == COLOUR_RED) then
            RSN_Produce( "{R}", 1 )
         elseif (nColour == COLOUR_WHITE) then
            RSN_Produce( "{W}", 1 )
         end
      </RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
      <RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
         RSN_EliminateExtraManaTokens()
         RSN_MarkManaAbilityEnd()
      </RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="upkeep" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="main_1" window_turn="my_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="begin_combat" window_turn="their_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="declare_attackers" window_turn="their_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="declare_blockers" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="main_2" window_turn="my_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="end_of_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY window_step="end_of_turn" window_turn="their_turn" type="window" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY type="in_response" response_source="1" response_target="1" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY type="in_response" response_source="1" />
      <AI_AVAILABILITY type="in_response" response_target="1" />
   </ACTIVATED_ABILITY>
   <STATIC_ABILITY resource_id="9">
      <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="0">
         RSN_ClearCanProduceMana()
         RSN_MarkCanProduceMana( "{B}{G}{R}{U}{W}" )
      </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>
      <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="8">
         local nDefaultColour = COLOUR_GREEN
         local oCard = EffectSource()
         if (RSN_CheckSwitchToFallback( oCard )) then
            local nColour = RSN_GetLastProducedColour()
            local oCharacteristics = oCard:GetCurrentCharacteristics()
            if (nColour ~= COLOUR_COLOURLESS) then
               oCharacteristics:GrantAbility( nColour )
            else
               oCharacteristics:GrantAbility( nDefaultColour )
            end
         end
      </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>
   </STATIC_ABILITY>
   <TRIGGERED_ABILITY forced_skip="1" replacement_effect="1" resource_id="10">
      <TRIGGER value="BEGINNING_OF_STEP" pre_trigger="1" />
      <RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
         RSN_ClearProducedMana()
      </RESOLUTION_TIME_ACTION>
   </TRIGGERED_ABILITY>
   <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="1">
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PRODUCES amount="{W}" />
   </MANA_ABILITY>
   <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="2">
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PRODUCES amount="{U}" />
   </MANA_ABILITY>
   <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="3">
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PRODUCES amount="{B}" />
   </MANA_ABILITY>
   <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="4">
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PRODUCES amount="{R}" />
   </MANA_ABILITY>
   <MANA_ABILITY resource_id="5">
      <COST type="TapSelf" />
      <PRODUCES amount="{G}" />
   </MANA_ABILITY>
   <TOKEN_REGISTRATION reservation="1" type="RSN_TOKEN_MANA_B" />
   <TOKEN_REGISTRATION reservation="1" type="RSN_TOKEN_MANA_G" />
   <TOKEN_REGISTRATION reservation="1" type="RSN_TOKEN_MANA_R" />
   <TOKEN_REGISTRATION reservation="1" type="RSN_TOKEN_MANA_U" />
   <TOKEN_REGISTRATION reservation="1" type="RSN_TOKEN_MANA_W" />

I pulled this from Birds of Paradise and added resource_ids to the abilities that need to be granted. So now you need to grant abilities 8, 9, and 10.

Granted, I could have used ChooseColour() and GetChosenColour() instead AskMultipleChoiceQuestion(), but as I was making code for several cards at the time (some of which had more or less options) this was easier to adapt and use.

[volrathxp]

Thanks to both of you, I'll give those a try and let you know how it pans out.

I haven't yet bought dotp 2015 yet, the reviews have really put me off of it. I may eventually, but for right now I'm having fun modding 2014.

[thefiremind]

I just noticed that I was giving the wrong layer to the continuous action in my code snippet: it should be "8" and not "6". I edited the post.

[volrathxp]

I just noticed that I was giving the wrong layer to the continuous action in my code snippet: it should be "8" and not "6". I edited the post.

Yup I figured that one out myself. I got it working but instead of ZONE_ANY it had to be ZONE_ANYWHERE.

It now works properly. Thanks again! Now to figure out my issues with Shield of the Avatar. XD

[thefiremind]

Yup I figured that one out myself. I got it working but instead of ZONE_ANY it had to be ZONE_ANYWHERE.

Thanks for pointing it out, I edited the post for future reference.