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Hi People.

I'm trying to code Crucible of Worlds and it seems rather obvious to start from Future Sight code, but I cant' figure out which characteristic would permit to play lands from the graveyard.... Of course I've tried PLAY_LAND_FROM_GRAVEYARD and a couple of others syntaxes but without success.

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  <CONTINUOUS_ACTION layer="8">
    local player = Object():GetController()
    if player ~= nil then
       local top = player:Library_GetNth(0)
       if top ~= nil then
          player:GetCurrentCharacteristics():Bool_Set( PLAYER_CHARACTERISTIC_PLAY_WITH_TOP_CARD_OF_LIBRARY_REVEALED, 1 )
       end
    end
    </CONTINUOUS_ACTION>

I can't find such a characteristic in the list of functions in the wiki, but as long as it's a characteristic and not a function it might be normal I can't figure out neither how such a characteristic was found to originaly code Future Sight.

There's also something like Sporoloth Ancient which grants an ability to filtered cards, but I find this kind of solution particularly heavy and inelegant.

Would someone have an idea ?

Many thanks in advance,

G.

This is my progress about Crucible of Worlds:
viewtopic.php?f=64&t=4557&p=109340#p109340

thefiremind wrote:This is my progress about Crucible of Worlds:
viewtopic.php?f=64&t=4557&p=109340#p109340

Thanks for the quick answer, I should have used the forum's search engine more thoroughly. Sorry to always ask about functions that can't actually be implemented...

G.

gopher wrote:Thanks for the quick answer, I should have used the forum's search engine more thoroughly. Sorry to always ask about functions that can't actually be implemented...

Always better asking rather than not: sometimes things that seem impossible to implement can be actually implemented (maybe with some degree of approximation) with the right idea.

I forgot something: when you talked about Sporoloth Ancient, be aware that granting activated abilities works good only for cards on the battlefield. If you do that for cards in hand or in a graveyard, the text won't appear, so there will be nothing to click on (unless the card has a flavor text, in that case the flavor text will become clickable for that ability, which is really confusing and bad to see).

thefiremind wrote:I forgot something: when you talked about Sporoloth Ancient, be aware that granting activated abilities works good only for cards on the battlefield. If you do that for cards in hand or in a graveyard, the text won't appear, so there will be nothing to click on (unless the card has a flavor text, in that case the flavor text will become clickable for that ability, which is really confusing and bad to see).

Additionally, be careful when granting mana abilities (even if only to cards on the battlefield). If you grant a mana ability from a card that does not have an active mana ability it will cause the game to crash. Joraga Treespeaker is a good example, at level 0 Joraga Treespeaker does not have a mana ability, but because of higher levels it can grant itself and/or other elves a mana ability. If the abilities are coded as MANA_ABILITY then it will cause the game to crash, if they are coded as ACTIVATED_ABILITY and use mana tokens then you don't have to worry about a crash (but you have the issue with Burning-Tree Shaman).