Manalink Update - July 8th: SPAT

[aww1979]

Fact or Fiction! Gifts Ungiven! Serra Avatar! Isochron Scepter! Thoughtseize! Gorilla Shaman!

There is a God, and His name is Jatill. (or maybe at least a Santa Claus)

[Zeek]

Oh yeah, by the way, apparently there's a maximum power/toughness on creatures. I used Serra Avatar with Wall of Reverence x2, and after gaining enough life my Serra Avatar's power and toughness looped around into some massive negative number, causing it to die. Of course, once you have that much life, your opponent may as well scoop unless they have some alternate win condition like Door to LOLingness, although I found this interesting enough to be worth mentioning.

[jatill]

Oh yeah, by the way, apparently there's a maximum power/toughness on creatures. I used Serra Avatar with Wall of Reverence x2, and after gaining enough life my Serra Avatar's power and toughness looped around into some massive negative number, causing it to die. Of course, once you have that much life, your opponent may as well scoop unless they have some alternate win condition like Door to LOLingness, although I found this interesting enough to be worth mentioning.

Nice combo

[Shulillo]

Hello and thanks for the updates, Jatill, with this ultimate update I have realized of which it does not work the mana burns, it only fails to me?

[MalkolmX]

Hello and thanks for the updates, Jatill, with this ultimate update I have realized of which it does not work the mana burns, it only fails to me?

Is intended, since Mana Burn will be removed from the game in M10

[scythe000]

Thanks for the update, Jatill! You rock!

Anybody got a whole bunch of .dck files they want to share?

[scythe000]

Bug report for SPAT: PC got Vaevictis Asmadi and get stuck in a loop pumping it for free.

[SEE]

Oh yeah, by the way, apparently there's a maximum power/toughness on creatures. I used Serra Avatar with Wall of Reverence x2, and after gaining enough life my Serra Avatar's power and toughness looped around into some massive negative number, causing it to die.

Yeah. Playing with debug mode, looks like they're using a signed two-byte number for creature toughness, and a signed four-byte for player life.

[mathusalem]

Ok here's a small image update, now including the much awaited SPAT image
thanks to Juzam djinn.

http://rapidshare.com/files/255030076/CardArtNew_.rar

[Zeek]

Bug report for SPAT: PC got Vaevictis Asmadi and get stuck in a loop pumping it for free.

I had the same thing happen. They eventually stopped, but the AI has this real habit of burning "unused" mana into abilities until it runs out when they can't cast anything, so any monster that can be pumped for nothing but mana causes them to go haywire triggering it needlessly even when it doesn't have haste and just came into play.

[jatill]

Bug report for SPAT: PC got Vaevictis Asmadi and get stuck in a loop pumping it for free.

I had the same thing happen. They eventually stopped, but the AI has this real habit of burning "unused" mana into abilities until it runs out when they can't cast anything, so any monster that can be pumped for nothing but mana causes them to go haywire triggering it needlessly even when it doesn't have haste and just came into play.

There's no way I can really fix this. Better to just remove them from the deck.