Card Contributions

[melvin]

Note that the following cards will be in 1.29. Submitted by a. benedict balbuena via email to magarena@googlegroups.com
Order of the White Shield
Order of the Ebon Hand
Order of Leitbur
Knight of Stromgald
Boreal Druid
Savannah Lions

[downlink]

I started to make M13 Intrepid Hero, and discovered that "Tap: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater" isn't a documented option for the card script. Could someone help me understand how to do this?
Thanks!

[melvin]

I started to make M13 Intrepid Hero, and discovered that "Tap: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater" isn't a documented option for the card script. Could someone help me understand how to do this?
Thanks!

Hi downlink, welcome to the froum Unfortunately, Intrepid Hero's ability is not scriptable. However, it can be implemented in Java. I just put together the code and added it to the repo.

You can see what the code for that ability looks like at https://code.google.com/p/magarena/sour ... _Hero.java

What I did was to start from Visara the Dreadful's ability from and modify it based on the effect from Reprisal (remove "cannot be regenerated", replace MagicTargetChoice.NEG_TARGET_CREATURE with MagicTargetChoice.NEG_TARGET_CREATURE_POWER_4_OR_MORE).

What's missing is the Intrepid_Hero.txt card script containing the description of the card. If you have that file ready, I can add it to the repository and Intrepid Hero will be appearing in 1.29

[downlink]

Wow, amazing response time!

Thanks so much for programming this ability. This is my first attempt with a card (only started Magarena yesterday); could you please help me to understand what to put in the following locations where I've put "<?>" as a placeholder?

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name=Intrepid Hero
url=http<>:<>//magiccards<>.<>info/m13/en/20.html
image=http<>:<>//magiccards<>.<>info/scans/en/m13/20.jpg
value=<?>
rarity=R
type=Creature
subtype=Human Soldier
cost={2}{W}
pt=1/1
ability=<?>
timing=<?>

[melvin]

Wow, amazing response time!

Thanks so much for programming this ability. This is my first attempt with a card (only started Magarena yesterday); could you please help me to understand what to put in the following locations where I've put "<?>" as a placeholder?

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name=Intrepid Hero
url=http<>:<>//magiccards<>.<>info/m13/en/20.html
image=http<>:<>//magiccards<>.<>info/scans/en/m13/20.jpg
value=<?>
rarity=R
type=Creature
subtype=Human Soldier
cost={2}{W}
pt=1/1
ability=<?>
timing=<?>

In 1.28, "value" can be one of {1,2,3,4,5}. It represents how valuable is a particular card, most cards have a "value" of 3. In 1.29, "value" should be taken from Gatherer's community rating. As Intrepid Hero will be in 1.29, "value" should be set as

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value=4.122


Note that the above does not work in the Magarena 1.28, but it will work for the daily build

"ability" is for keyword/scripted abilities, since Intrepid Hero's ability is not scripted, we can just leave this out.

"timing" is a hint for the AI to limit when it can cast this card. Typically it is

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timing=main


for casting during one of the main phases. Other values of timing are explained in https://code.google.com/p/magarena/wiki ... ntingCards. For example, creatures with haste having "time=fmain", which limits the AI to casting it on the first main. This helps to reduce the number of choices the AI needs to consider.

Below is the completed code that can be loaded by 1.28 is as follows. Note that there should be a comma between the two subtypes, eg "Human,Soldier" instead of "Human Soldier".

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name=Intrepid Hero
url=http://magiccards.info/m13/en/20.html
image=http://magiccards.info/scans/en/m13/20.jpg
value=3
rarity=R
type=Creature
subtype=Human,Soldier
cost={2}{W}
pt=1/1
timing=main


For the yet to be released 1.29, I would use the following. The difference is
1) how value is set
2) added "requires_card_code" to the end of the script to trigger loading of the the Java code

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name=Intrepid Hero
url=http://magiccards.info/m13/en/20.html
image=http://magiccards.info/scans/en/m13/20.jpg
value=4.122
rarity=R
type=Creature
subtype=Human,Soldier
cost={2}{W}
pt=1/1
timing=main
requires_card_code


[downlink]

Amazing work Melvin; I can't wait to contribute more M13 cards in the evenings. I really appreciate your help and explanations.
Top notch project!

[spartan vi]

Here are the scriptable portions of Nefarox, Edge of the Divinity, and Geth's Verdict.

[Braullynn]

well... i don't know if was made right, more is a good card

[melvin]

Welcome to the forum, Braullynn Your script is spot on and functionally correct. I changed the "url" so that it is more consistent with other scripts and updated the "value" to use the new 1.29 card script format, which is just Gatherer's community rating. You can see the version I added to the game here https://code.google.com/p/magarena/sour ... or_Elf.txt

Thanks to spartan vi for contributing card scripts as well. Getting these contributions gives us additional motivation to put out the necessary code to get the card working.

All contributed scripts are currently placed in a separate folder in the repository. Once the card code is ready, the corresponding card script will be moved into the scripts folder.

Manage to spend some time during lunch today to put together the code for Angelic Benediction

[Braullynn]

Thanks for your attention

a few more cards »» »






thanks melvin, and the mycoloth ability was edited

[melvin]

Thanks, Braullynn. Some quick comments:

Mycoloth can be easily coded.

Doubling Season will need some extra hooks in the engine but should be possible and it will be fun to see tons of tokens/counters.

Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII cannot be easily implemented as we don't have a good mechanism to associate arbitrary information with a card.

update 15/08/12: Mycoloth's first ability can be scripted as "ability=devour 2"

[Braullynn]

I'm happy to help in the contribution of this program version 1.29, even with so little.

new cards »»

[Braullynn]

continued...

[melvin]

Thanks, Braullynn, just added them to our repository. See https://code.google.com/p/magarena/source/list

Pendelhaven should be "type=Legendary,Land" instead of "type=Land". I've fixed it in the version I added to the repository.

One nice thing about the thallids is that the first two abilities are all the same, so it allow us to reuse the same piece of code.

[Braullynn]

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