SHANDALAR CARD wishlist! ask for NEW cards!

[vinnie]

I know a little of c, python and java.
Src folder is in the mod package?
Sorry for the time to reply, but I have connection problem this days.

[gmzombie]

for shandalar there is usually a seperate download that says source. For manalink it is included with the most recent release along with most of the older releases. it is in the src folder.

[timmermac]

The entire bunch of slivers, if they aren't already in the game.

[Vernon]

I think they're in the Manalink, but not Shandalar and I agree.

[Korath]

Please be specific and (this isn't aimed at you in particular, timmermac) reasonable. I'm much more likely to get to things if they're in bite-size pieces than "all cards with [something]".

For slivers, I'm not likely to make much more progress. Most of the "easy" ones are already in. Sliver Overlord, Ward Sliver, and Toxin Sliver have been added since NB1; Essence Sliver I'll probably do today (it became much easier as a side effect of my Living Artifact rewrite); and I'll bump Ghostflame Sliver to the front of the list. All of the other slivers are currently either impossible or impractical:

• Brood Sliver and Synapse Sliver have optional triggered abilities, which are only directly supported by the engine when it's the ability's source's controller who chooses whether to activate it.
• Spined Sliver, like many other cards, can't be done robustly until there's real blocking triggers, which are waiting in turn on a rewrite of multiblockers like Two-Headed Giant of Foriys.
• Hunter Sliver, like everything else with provoke or anything similar, is waiting on a generalization of Lure, which I haven't gotten to yet.
• Root Sliver is waiting on uncounterability. Likely the version after this.
• Lymph Sliver is doable, and will even be easy once I start doing partial damage prevention effects at all, but trying it before then will make all the other similar effects harder.
• Leeching Sliver is in exactly the same position as Lymph Sliver, but is instead waiting on "When [something besides this particular card] attacks" triggers.
• Belligerent Sliver and Two-Headed Sliver grant menace, which is wholly incompatible with the way the combat AI works. The combat AI has numerous other problems, so I'll have to rewrite it eventually, but that won't be soon.
• The largest group - Acidic Sliver, Armor Sliver, Barbed Sliver, Basal Sliver, Cautery Sliver, Clot Sliver, Crypt Sliver, Darkheart Sliver, Dementia Sliver, Firewake Sliver, Frenetic Sliver, Gemhide Sliver, Hibernation Sliver, Magma Sliver, Manaweft Sliver, Mindlash Sliver, Mindwhip Sliver, Mistform Sliver, Mnemonic Sliver, Necrotic Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Psionic Sliver, Quilled Sliver, Screeching Sliver, Sedge Sliver, Spectral Sliver, Telekinetic Sliver, Victual Sliver - all grant activated abilities. The engine doesn't support adding activated abilities at all - unsurprising, since none of the cards in MTG when the game was released did so - and they're very clumsy to approximate. Doing it properly means that all activated abilities have to interact with them, so it wasn't even one of my design goals. Eventually I'll put in something vaguely generic so the same problems don't have to be solved in every single card that grants activated abilities, like they are in Manalink, but that's not going to be soon at all.
• Homing Sliver not only grants an activated ability, it's an ability that's activated from your hand. That's not supported at all by the engine, either, even when it's not granted to other cards.
• Constricting Sliver, Diffusion Sliver, Dormant Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Fungus Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Opaline Sliver, Pulmonic Sliver, Thorncaster Sliver, Vampiric Sliver, and Virulent Sliver grant triggered abilities, which aren't supported at all by the engine either. On the other hand, they can be approximated much more closely by making the source sliver trigger for all the other ones - for example, implementing Fungus Sliver like it read "Whenever a Sliver creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it". On yet a third hand, doing that's going to greatly complicate things once triggers go on the stack like they're supposed to in post-sixth-edition rules, so I regard my early addition of Harmonic Sliver and Plague Sliver (which use just those sort of approximations) as major blunders. Opaline Sliver's triggered ability is, further, one that's not directly supported by the engine, doesn't work at all well under the fifth-edition-era rules, and which I haven't even done the non-Sliver version of yet. Diffusion Sliver's like Opaline Sliver dialed up to 11. And Dormant Sliver's also waiting on defender becoming a real ability that can be added and removed.
• Flash, like Defender, is added on a per-card-type basis ("all Ashcoat Bear's") rather than a per-card basis ("this particular Ashcoat Bear"), so Quick Sliver is out. It'll also be significantly harder to add to the engine than defender was in Manalink, and I don't view Manalink's approximation for this kind of card ("0: Cast a Sliver card in your hand. Any player may activate this ability.") as an option.
• Hivestone is waiting on arbitrary cards being able to gain or lose subtypes while on the bf. High priority for the version after this, since it's a requirement for manlands.
• And Sliver Hive's totally prevented by the engine's non-support for mana with spending restrictions. The only card in MTG when the game was released that did this was Mishra's Workshop; that's implemented as a sixth color of mana with some additional hacks that sometimes let colorless mana be spent as it. And there isn't room to add an eighth - all the mana-related data structures are eight bytes wide, colorless mana takes a slot, too, and the last is used for "total" mana - let alone five more types for Sliver Hive, five for Ally Encampment, etc etc.

[Vernon]

Fair enough, but he'll be disappointed. My brother (timmermac) LOVES Slivers. I can convince him to play the Manalink version for more.

[timmermac]

That's not really a problem. I suspected that certain cards might be difficult/practically impossible with a 20-something year-old engine. I can find other ways to win games. (Elfburn + Beastmaster Ascension, anybody?)

[Vernon]

I think the engine got a massive upgrade in some areas, though. But there are limitations that require a complete rewrite, which is not in the plans for the foreseeable future. Is Elfburn even in the mix? And can it be added?

Also, slivers are such a wide ranging category of cards that it's impossible to single out a specific card in the category. Clone and Vesuvan Doppelganger aside, the properties of the individual sliver card have to be considered before it can be added to the card list, as Korath stated.

[lujo]

Thanks for the writeup, it'll come in very handy for the next round of deckbuilding as it's a nice roadmap of places where I can expect hiccups.

[TheKillerNacho]

I'd like to request Custody Battle. It's a fun card and one of my favorites. I don't think the effect would be difficult to code but who knows.

Thanks!

[Rawky]

Updated January 18, 2017
Wishes Granted: 23

Land | Open

Abandoned Outpost 170111
Academy Ruins added 160801
Ancient Spring added 170111
Balduvian Trading Post
Bant Panorama added 170111
Blighted Cataract added 170111
Blighted Fen added 170111
Blighted Gorge added 170111
Blighted Steppe added 170111
Blighted Woodland added 170111
Bog Wreckage added 170111
Crystal Vein added 170111
Dust Bowl
Dwarven Ruins added 170111
Ebon Stronghold added 170111
Encroaching Wastes
Esper Panorama added 170111
Faerie Conclave Yay!
Forbidding Watchtower Yay!
Foundry of the Consuls added 170111
Gargoyle Castle added 170111
Geothermal Crevice added 170111
Ghitu Encampment Yay!
Ghost Quarter Yay!
Grim Backwoods added 170111
Grixis Panorama added 170111
Grove of the Guardian added 170111
Havenwood Battleground added 170111
Hellion Crucible added 170111
Heart of Yavimaya Yay!
Horizon Canopy added 170111
Irrigation Ditch added 170111
Jund Panorama added 170111
Keldon Necropolis added 170111
Kjeldoran Outpost
Krosan Verge added 170111
Lake of the Dead
Miren, the Moaning Well added 170111
Mistveil Plains added 160801
Mouth of Ronom added 170111
Myriad Landscape added 170111
Naya Panorama added 170111
Ravaged Highlands added 170111
Rishadan Port
Ruins of Trokair added 170111
Seafloor Debris added 170111
Seaside Haven added 170111
Shimmering Grotto added 170118
Soldevi Excavations
Spawning Pool
Sulfur Vent added 170111
Svyelunite Temple added 170111
Tectonic Edge
Timberland Ruins added 170111
Tinder Farm added 170111
Treetop Village Yay!
Unholy Grotto added 160801
Unknown Shores added 170118
Volrath's Stronghold added 160801
Wasteland Yay!

Artifact | Open

Chromatic Sphere
Chromatic Star
Crucible of Worlds
Darkwater Egg
Hangarback Walker
Mind Stone
Mossfire Egg
Null Rod Yay!
Orbs of Warding
Prismatic Lens added 170111
Prophetic Prism added 170111
Shadowblood Egg
Skycloud Egg
Sungrass Egg
Terrarion
Witchbane Orb Yay!

White | Open

Aegis of the Gods Yay!
Angelic Purge
Cataclysm Yay!
Ivory Mask Yay!
Leyline of Sanctity Yay!
Path to Exile Yay!
Solitary Confinement Yay!
Spirit of the Hearth Yay!
True Believer Yay!

Blue | Open

Bribery Yay!
Crystal Spray
Mind Bend
Ponder Yay!
Swirl the Mists
Omniscience
Wall of Tears

Black | Open

Fleshwrither
Living Death Yay!
Triskaidekaphobia

Red | Open

Goblin Grenade
Goblin Vandal
Kuldotha Rebirth

Green | Open

Abundance
Abundant Growth added 170111
Anurid Scavenger added 170111
Gaea's Blessing Yay!
Unbridled Growth added 170111

Multicolor | Open

Abrupt Decay Yay!
Fumarole
Manamorphose Yay!

[Tenka]

Sorry if this has been said already (or if unfeasible).

My #1 card wanted atm is Abrupt Decay.

[Spork]

Finally got everything working how I'd like it to, will just keep this one post as my wishlist and edit as I go.

(Edit: 4/16/16)
Snapcaster Mage
Fact or Fiction
Bribery
Leyline of Anticipation
Prismatic Omen
Umezawa's Jitte
Lightning Greaves
Buried Alive
Entomb
Birthing Pod (Pretty sure you can't code the phyrexian mana in this engine though?)
Moment's Peace
Mulldrifter
Prophetic Prism
Banefire
Izzet/Selesnya/Azorius/etc Signet
Propaganda
Ghostly Prison

[Rawky]

Lightning Greaves ✔

✔ = It's in

Unfortunately, Cycling and Flashback are not presently doable.

[Spork]

Lightning Greaves ✔
Preordain ✔

✔ = It's in

Unfortunately, Cycling is not presently doable.

Wow I do really keep missing things, huh. I guess I mess up when trying to remember what cards I didn't see in the gem/gold shops. I'll try to be more accurate and probably write them down as I go.