Manalink Update Feb 10 2010: The St Valentine's Day Massacre

[jatill]

You may recall that as of my Christmas update, I vowed to take a break from coding cards. I did. Luckily for you, gargaroz took no break, and coded an astounding number of cards. Combined with the 20 Worldwake cards I coded this week, this is a very impressive update.

Great things come at a cost, though, and over a hundred cards were murdered to make room for the latest and greatest. No doubt some of these care were in decks you used, so those decks will no longer work right. However, if you are using the custom version, then all your decks should still work there; just copy them to the custom decks directory (custdeck). This is a trend that will continue. Weak cards will be purged from the constructed version for stronger cards.

So first, the links:

This will get you up to date from the 1/9 release
http://www.mediafire.com/file/lmmmrxrywmz/20100212.zip

If you missed anything earlier, here's the entire cardartnew folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kdwvrz34m ... artnew.zip

One problem with this update is that the expansions are not right for most cards, so they will appear in weird sets for drafting. I'm hoping someone will volunteer to correct these.

Also a note about Morph / Illusionary Mask:
If you move these to the custom version, don't forget the Face Down Creature as well. These abilities are a bit buggy, but all-in-all, very close to the intended abilities.

And here is the list of cards added:
(by jatill)
Sedge Sliver
Exalted Angel
Illusionary Mask
Phyrexian Dreadnought
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Celestial Collonade
Creeping Tar Pits
Death's Shadow
Kor Firewalker
Raging Ravine
Stirring Wildwood
Lavaclaw Reaches
Lodestone Golem
Loam Lion
Novablast Wurm
Dragonmaster Outcast
Kalastria Highborn
Joraga Wildcaller
Halimar Depths
Treasure Hunt
Wolfbriar Elemental
Everflowing Chalice
Urge to Feed
Slavering Nulls
Chain Reaction

(by gargaroz)
Academy Ruins
Accumulated Knowledge
Aether Burst
Altar of Dementia
Ascendant Evincar
Balefire Liege
Beacon of Creation
Beacon of Destruction
Beacon of Unrest
Call of the Herd
Cao Cao, Lord of Wei
Cloudstone Curio
Cold-Eyed Selkie
Contagion
Countryside Crusher
Cream of the Crop
Crovax, Ascendant Hero
Darksteel Reactor
Deathbringer Liege
Decree of Justice
Defiant Falcon
Deserted Temple
Doubling Season
Engineered Explosives
Enlisted Wurm
Ertai, Wizard Adept
Eternal Dragon
Evolution Charm
Fiery Justice
Fledgling Dragon
Gaea's Blessing
Gemhide Sliver
Gilder Bairn
Grove of the Burnwillows
Guiltfeeder
Hermit Druid
Horizon Canopy
Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
Hunted Dragon
Hunted Horror
Imperial Recruiter
Impulse
Infernal Genesis
Jotun Grunt
Kavu Predator
Kill Switch
Lim-Dul's Vault
Lin Sivvi
Magma Sliver
Magus of the Vineyard
Metalworker
Mind Funeral
Murderous Redcap
Necrotic Sliver
Nemesis of Reason
Nighwing Glider
Null Brooch
Petrified Field
Phyrexian Processor
Phyrexian Scuta
Plague Spitter
Psionic Sliver
Pyre Zombie
Rain of Daggers
Ramosian Captain
Ramosian Sergeant
Raven's Crime
Reckless Charge
Righteous Fury
Rishadan Port
Rogue Elephant
Scalpelexis
Scroll Rack
Sea Drake
Seedborn Muse
Slate of Ancestry
Spectral Force
Spitting Image
Staff of Domination
Stampeding Wildebeest
Starstorm
Static Orb
Stonewood Invocation
Stormbind
Sutured Ghoul
Synapse Sliver
Telekinetic Sliver
Thawing Glaciers
Thermal Glider
Timbermare
Tolaria West
Tombstone Stairwell
Tradewind Rider
Ulasht, the Hate Seed
Varchild's War-Riders
Vexing Sphinx
Vine Dryad
Vitu-Ghazi, the City Tree
Void
Volrath Stronghold
Ward Sliver
Whipchorder.
Wild Mongrel
Woodfall Primus
Worm Harvest
Wren's Run Packmaster
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
Yavimaya Elder
Yosei, the Morning Star
Zombie Infestation

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed code for Gauntlet of Power, now it works perfectly with Clone and similar cards that copy / alter color.
- Fixed card text for Cloudpost
- Fixed code for Cabal Therapy : now you can flashback it sacrificing a creature with Shroud or ProBlack
- Fixed Ashen Ghoul, the new code for Nether Shadow and Krovikan Horror removing the fixed ID, so they can freely be moved thru the versions via the My2000.exe
- Fixed code for Earthcraft
- Fixed code for Vodalian Soldiers
- Fixed Reserved Information for Combat Medics : hopefully, now the AI will activate its ability.
- Fixed code for functions "rearrange_top_x" and "scrying" : now, hopefully, they work perfectly, along with the cards that call them.
- Fixed code for Zombie Master (by Jatill)
- Fixed code for Natural Order : now it's playable.
- Fixed code for Master of the Wild Hunt : now its ability taps every untapped Wolf creature you contriol, not only its tokens.
- Fixed code for Acidic Slime (now can destroy Artifact Creatures)
- Fixed code for Treetop Village (it dind't "goes ape", fixed wrong name in get_id_by_name).
- Adjusted code for Devour and Planeswalkers in order to interact correctly with Doubling Season.
-Remove mana cost from Fatestitcher's ability
-AI does not play lands using oracle of Mul Daya.
-Steward of Valeron has wrong mana slashes.
-Goblin Bushwacker is missing legacy effect
-Global enchantments in Zendikar are not played by the AI, since they don't have the global_enchantment code.
-Oran Rief the Vastwood doesn't auto-tap for mana


Known Bugs Added:
* Doubling Season : works only with the cards coded in C. Older cards and cards coded in ASM aren't affected by Doubling Season at all. Probably, some of them will be recoded with time.
* Gemhide Sliver / Magma Sliver / Psionic Sliver / Telekinetic Sliver / Necrotic Sliver : the effect mimic the correct one, but has several issues. You've to click on the "main" sliver to activate the "shared" ability and only the player that controls the "main" sliver can do it.
* Murderous Redcap - Sometimes does the correct damage when persist, sometimes not.
* Stonewood Invocation - No Split Second, but a faithful approximation.
* Morph / Illusionary Mask aren't perfect. Did you really expect them to be?

These cards bit the dust in the constructed version:
0293 Angry Mob
0296 Banshee
0297 Barl’s cage
0298 Dark heart of the wood
0300 Apprentice Wizard
0302 Bone Flute
0303 Brainwash
0304 Brothers of Fire
0306 Cave People
0308 Coal golem
0314 Erosion
0315 Eternal Flame
0316 Exorcist
0320 Fire Drake
0321 Fissure
0323 People of the woods
0329 Goblin caves
0330 Goblin hero
0332 Goblins of the Flarg
0335 Hidden Path
0336 Bog imp
0339 Land leeches
0345 Martyr’s cry
0350 Bog rats
0353 Book of rass
0355 Riptide
0366 Sunken city
0370 Drowned
0371 Murk dwellers
0373 Niall sylvain
0374 Inquisition
0376 Diabolic machine
0383 Venom
0385 War Barge
0389 Wormwood treefolk
0393 Aladdin’s Lamp
0394 Ali baba
0396 Alaldin’s ring
0399 Bird maiden
0400 Bottle of Suleiman
0401 Camel
0406 Dandan
0408 Desert nomads
0412 Ebony horse
0413 El hadjajj
0418 Fishliver oil
0419 Flying carpet
0422 goant tortoise
0429 Jandor’s ring
0439 Magnetic mountain
0440 Mershant ship
0448 Piety
0449 Pyramids
0468 argyvian blacksmith
0469 Argothian pixies
0470 Argotian treefolk
0473 Artifact ward
0478 Battering ram
0511 Obelisk of undoing
0516 Artifact Possession
0522 Reverse Polarity
0552 Acid rain
0557 Aislin leprechaun
0573 Azure drake
0576 Barbary apes
0596 Cleanse
0612 Devouring deep
0621 Elder spawn
0620 Elder land wurm
0626 Energy tap
0628 Eternal warrior
0642 Fortified area
0643 Frost giant
0650 Giant turtle
0658 Great defender
0667 Headless horseman
0669 Hell swarm
0674 Hornet cobra
0692 Jovial evil
0696 Keepers of the faith
0715 Lifeblood
0727 Mold demon
0728 Moss monster
0757 Raging bull
0768 Relin bind
0774 rightous avengers
0781 Seeker
0786 Shield wall
0790 Sivitri scarzam
0805 Syphon soul
0813 The brute
0814 The lady of the mountain
0818 Tobia andrion
0821 Torsten von Ursus
0827 Typhoon
0948 Squire
0951 Water wurm
0994 Coastal hornclaw
1001 Coral eel
1014 Dehydration
1020 Dusk imp
1040 Fugitive wizard
1046 Gloutonous zombie
1057 horned turtle
1075 Looming shade
1099 Norwood ranger
1112 Phyrexian hulk
1128 Reflexes
1162 Storm crow
1193 Wrath of Marit lage
1197 Wind drake
1214 Alpha myr
1280 Nessian courser
1587 Pale bears
1588 Striped bears
1596 Thundering giant
1605 Hawkeater moth
1628 Moor fiend
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Chaoslace
Blue Ward
Castle
Conservator
Craw Wurm
Creature Bond
Crystal Rod
Cursed Land
Death Ward
Deathlace
Demonic Hordes
Earthbind
Evil Presence
Farmstead
Fear
Feedback
Firebreathing
Flight
Frozen Shade
Glasses or Urza
Gray Ogre
Green ward
Grizzly Bears
Guardian Angel
Hill Giant
Salt Marsh
Coastal Tower
Elfame Palace
Shivan Oasis
Urborg Volcano

PS: Thanks mathusalem, for helping me get the arts together

[aww1979]

First to post!

Holy crap... marry me. Both of you.

[discoransom]

Amazing! You coded some cards I was absolutely gagging for too. Fantastic choices on which ones to cut as well. Just...wow. Thank you.

[sopcich04]

awesome!
scroll rack is highly flawed. i get to choose any card in my hand twice and its like the card comes out of nowhere plus i draw an extra card when i replace my hand

ex. i had 7 cards in hand, one was lightning bolt. i used scroll rack and clicked lightning bolt 7 times. so the top of my library was 7 lightning bolts and for some reason i ended up with 13 cards in my hand haha

[stassy]

May you rest in peace removed cards, going to make another Magic folder and test this new version, thanks for the update.

[somacat]

Hi all, long time no post... Nice update! In fact Manalink seems to have come a very long way since I was last on. Lots more cards and challenges

Anyway, I have updated the sealed sets for these cards as requested (as well as changing Loam Lion's manacost from R to W), but not sure what files I need to upload to share the changes. Let me know.

Other than that I'll try and clean up the buglist again when I can. Nice to see you are all still here ^^

EDIT: I noticed Alpha Myr was on the removed cards list - wasn't this in one of the challenge decks?

[sopcich04]

Joraga warcaller does not give itself +1/+1
i have 2 in play(one kicked twice, one kicked three times) and all they are is a 4/4 and a 3/3 when they should both be 6/6

[whelp]

nice! but wheres madness or at least roar of the wurm to feed mongrel and infestation? anyway, will be great with squee and burried alive

[Vecc]

This is awesome! You guys seriously get the work running here. Great update!

[stassy]

Bug : Loam lion ask for R instead of W

[mathusalem]

Areally nice addition and even better since we can choose what to add and what to take out. Bye bye karoos ! bye bye signets !

I get the impression that my Custom version runs slower since I really customized it, though. Did you notice this as well ?

[jatill]

Hi all, long time no post... Nice update! In fact Manalink seems to have come a very long way since I was last on. Lots more cards and challenges

Anyway, I have updated the sealed sets for these cards as requested (as well as changing Loam Lion's manacost from R to W), but not sure what files I need to upload to share the changes. Let me know.

Other than that I'll try and clean up the buglist again when I can. Nice to see you are all still here ^^

EDIT: I noticed Alpha Myr was on the removed cards list - wasn't this in one of the challenge decks?

Just send me manalink.csv. And yes, I forgot about Alpha Myr. I'll have to address that. Thanks.

Let me know if you do decide to clean up the bugs list. It would be nice to remove some of the bugs that I have forgotten about by now So often people post bugs that I cannot verify, though, and those are just worthless to me.

[stassy]

I get the impression that my Custom version runs slower since I really customized it, though. Did you notice this as well ?

It's not only you, in my new magic folder I don't have custom2k installed and since this patch game tend to run slower even on normal gauntlet mode which is supposed to be super fast.

[Salbei]

Whow , ton of new cards to toy around with!

small bugreport for this version:

i´ve notice the game keeps crashing whenever i got Exalted Angel
1)in my starting hand
2)or when i am drawing one of them

[franjoal]

Jatill is absent the pics of Sporesower Thallid and Thelon of havenwood for the limited version.