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CHANGE LOG VER 1.0 : | Open

1. NEW FEATURE : Now compatible with clone effect. Previous version had an incompatibility with cloning effect cards, if a cloned card phased-out, it was resetted to source card when it phase-in. Obviously this shouldn't happen.
2. NEW FEATURE : Now it is almost compliant with Flip cards, no modify is needed to Flip cards.
3. FIXED : issue about the "Enter-Battlefield checks" about the cards not belonging to the EffectController under the effect of Auras like Mind Control, Control Magic, Confiscate. Now these cards will not activate any triggers.
4. FIXED : From version 0.2 morph cards were no longer compatible with phasing effect. NOW IT WORKS AGAIN.

Know Bugs :
1. When a card not belonging to EffectController but controlled through an Aura like Confiscate phase in will get Haste to avoid summon sickness.
2. Morph cards, cloned cards, flipped cards, will have a stretched picture after they are phasing out at least one time. ( I still don't understand the reason, it depends from dotp engine ) anyway this is not a gameplay bug, the card will be fully working, it is just a visual bug.

CHANGELOG Ver. 0.2 : | Open

As Expected Phasing is creating more issues we can handle with this Dotp engine.
Because we are using a zone change effect to simulate the phasing effect, we have to fight with control change effects.
This due to a control change when we move the card to ZONE_CEASED_TO_EXIST, the controller is restored to card Owner.
The card cannot be moved to a ZONE not belong to the owner.
To avoid this issue i can apply a control effect to keep the control player when the card returns, but there is no way to know if an effect should still exist or not, so i decided to keep only the continuos control change effect cause by Auras attached to the card.
Doing this way i have only one issue the card when returns is affected by summon sickness, the only way i know to avoid this is to give to it haste.
New features are :
1. Can handle cards who changed controller with Auras like Mind Control, Control Magic, Confiscate ....
2. Any control effect (not through auras) applied before Phasing will end with phasing out, because the target doesn't exist anymore.
3. Auras and Equipments that phase out directly will Phase in attached to the card they were attached if it still exist, otherwise they will Phase in detached.

Know bugs until now :
1. When a card not belonging to EffectController but controlled through an Aura like Confiscate phase in, any trigger ability related to enchantment or auras who enters onto battlefield will trigger from the second phase in!
The first time it normally work and doesn't trigger, but due to a misterious reason after the first time it won't work anymore, so the card normally phase-out, phase-in, keeping counters, auras etc etc, but the auras attached are not invisible to "Enter-Battlefield checks".
2. When a card not belonging to EffectController but controlled through an Aura like Confiscate phase in will get Haste to avoid summon sickness.

CHANGELOG Ver. 0.1 : | Open

This version is compliant with effects like:
1a. Ajani’s Chosen
1b. Angelic Chorus
1c. Cathars’ Crusade
1d. Dual Nature
1e. Dreadbringer Lampads - And all Constellation cards.
1f. Altar of the Brood

2. It keeps track of the number of counters on a phasing card.
3. It brings any attached auras or equipments into phasing zone.
4. It is almost working with morph cards ( just a weird effect after a morph card is phase in, the picture become stretched )
5. It will be almost compliant with Flip cards after i update that set so you will need FLIP CARDS SET REV 1b. (same weird effect like morph cards)
6. It keeps memory of Tapped status of the Phased card.

NeoAnderson wrote:I still need help to understand exactly how phasing is supposed to works during certain situation so any comment, feedback or idea will be appreciated.

thefiremind wrote:

NeoAnderson wrote:I still need help to understand exactly how phasing is supposed to works during certain situation so any comment, feedback or idea will be appreciated.

This is the best explanation in my opinion:
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Phasing
I think the main problem would be to avoid triggering enters/leaves-the-battlefield triggers when the permanent phases in/out, and making Auras/Equipments "phase indirectly".

SAMPLE CODE TO GRANT PHASING TO A TARGET - THE EFFECT WILL END AFTER FIRST PHASING | Open

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<TARGET tag="CARD_QUERY_CHOOSE_CARD" definition="0" compartment="0" count="1" />
      <TARGET_DEFINITION id="0">
      local filter = ClearFilter()
            local subfilter = filter:AddSubFilter_Or()
                  subfilter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_ARTIFACT )
                  subfilter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_CREATURE )
                  subfilter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_ENCHANTMENT )
                  subfilter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_LAND )
                  subfilter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_PLANESWALKER )
      </TARGET_DEFINITION>
     <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="1">
         local card = EffectDC():Get_Targets(0) and EffectDC():Get_Targets(0):Get_CardPtr(0)
         if card ~= nil then
            EffectDC():Set_CardPtr(100, card)
            EffectDC():Protect_CardPtr(100)
      RSN_Characteristics_Set( card, NEO_PHASING_ABILITY, 1 )
        end
    </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>
             <DURATION>
              local card = EffectDC():Get_CardPtr(100)
              if card ~= nil then
                  if card:GetZone() == ZONE_CEASED_TO_EXIST then
                     return false
                  else
                     return card:GetZone() ~= ZONE_BATTLEFIELD
                  end
              end
              </DURATION>

NeoAnderson wrote:My doubts are about continuos effects that should last when the card Phase out, expecially control effects!!

thefiremind wrote:

NeoAnderson wrote:My doubts are about continuos effects that should last when the card Phase out, expecially control effects!!

My understanding of the rule 702.25d in the link I posted makes me think that control should never change. So if a creature with phasing has been stolen with Mind Control, it should still belong to the player who's controlling Mind Control, even after phasing out and back in.

migookman wrote:A big THANK YOU!! for all the hard work you are doing in the community. I'm going to give your alpha version a test drive.

migookman wrote:It works great now. It even phases the auras. Can't wait to try the Equipoise/Sands of Time lock.

Yes it phases the Auras, it keeps the counters, and it also keeps track about Tap status, if a card who don't untap during the untap phase, phase out tapped it comeback tapped, it is also working with morph cards, and it will be compliant with Flip cards but i have to update them to make them phasing compliant.
I still have to fix some problems, expecially about the control change effects, now the phasing is not considering these effects, i have to find a way to handle these effects. Anyway right now is an alpha test, please report me any issue or weird behaviour, so i can try to fix it while i am still developing it.
Tomorrow i will comeback onto phasing code now i need to take a break to clarify my mind! I am Phasing OUT!!!

RiiakShiNal wrote:Your implementation will also be incompatible with any ability that applies an effect that lasts longer than the phasing interval. For example Sensei Golden-Tail, use the second ability on a creature that phases out, when it phases back in it should still have Bushido 1 and be a Samurai (regardless of the training counter), but the effect goes away once the creature "phases out".

migookman wrote:Great work on Phasing Neo. I've tested out Breezekeeper a bit and everything seems to work fine. I would like to test out some cards that grant phasing and also cards that have global phasing (such as Equipoise). Will you be making a Phasing Pack similar to your work with Convoke, Flip Cards, etc. ?

NeoAnderson wrote:I decided to implement Phasing let ending any effects generated on resolution time before the card phase out, this because as my opinion should be the same behaviour have some other official cards like Keiga, the Tide Star.

FOR EXAMPLE : look the official card Keiga, the Tide Star , when it dies you take the control of target creature. The effect should end only when the game end as by rule : 611.2a A continuous effect generated by the resolution of a spell or ability lasts as long as stated by the spell or ability creating it (such as "until end of turn"). If no duration is stated, it lasts until the end of the game.
This means if i take control of CREATURE_X and it dies during the match i should still be the controller also into graveyard but it isn't so.

108.4. A card doesn’t have a controller unless that card represents a permanent or spell; in those cases, its controller is determined by the rules for permanents or spells. See rules 110.2 and 111.2.

110.1. A permanent is a card or token on the battlefield. A permanent remains on the battlefield indefinitely. A card or token becomes a permanent as it enters the battlefield and it stops being a permanent as it’s moved to another zone by an effect or rule.

611.2b Some continuous effects generated by the resolution of a spell or ability have durations worded “for as long as . . . .” If the “for as long as” duration never starts, or it ends before the moment the effect would first be applied, the effect does nothing. It doesn’t start and immediately stop again, and it doesn’t last forever.
Example: Master Thief has the ability “When Master Thief enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact for as long as you control Master Thief.” If you lose control of Master Thief before the ability resolves, it does nothing, because its duration—as long as you control Master Thief—was over before the effect began.

702.25e Continuous effects that affect a phased-out permanent may expire while that permanent is phased out. If so, they will no longer affect that permanent once it’s phased in. In particular,
effects with “for as long as” durations that track that permanent (see rule 611.2b) end when that permanent phases out because they can no longer see it.

702.25d The phasing event doesn’t actually cause a permanent to change zones or control, even though it’s treated as though it’s not on the battlefield and not under its controller’s control while it’s phased out. Zone-change triggers don’t trigger when a permanent phases in or out. Counters remain on a permanent while it’s phased out. Effects that check a phased-in permanent’s history won’t treat the phasing event as having caused the permanent to leave or enter the battlefield or its controller’s control.