pcastellazzi wrote:The thread about requestiong new cards speaks of a policy, is it the one in the thread updated?
If you mean the first post in that thread, then no, it is outdated. I just updated it, thanks for the reminder.
pcastellazzi wrote:If it is why cant we add cards that use the library? i.e.
Demonic Tutor. I dont see much difference with something like
Eternal Witness (except of course the selection pool is different).
Can the same algorithm used with both cards? It looks like i am missing something here, can you please give me some more details of why it should be avoided?
Your right that tutoring is similar to graveyard recursion. Right now we don't support it but we can certainly modify our current select from graveyard mechanism to provide it. I was thinking about supporting limited forms of tutoring, such as tutoring lands, as a start.
The reason why it was avoided is probably due to the large number of potential choices that AI would have to deal with. The graveyard is typically much smaller than the library at the start of the game. If the AI starts doing badly at the start it may be hard to recover.
I'm not sure if this has been tested in practice and found to be bad for the AI or just based on the above reasoning. Therefore I would welcome any patches to implement cards that can tutor so we can see what is the actual effect on the AI.