Requests for AI improvements

[Korath]

Considering only the cards coded in C:

Sometimes, it cheats:

• Cabal Therapy names the first non-land card in your hand.
• Thought Hemorrhage and Null Chamber name the first nonland card in your deck.
• Demonic Consultation picks the seventh card from the top in the AI's library.

Sometimes, it still cheats, but not as much as it could:

• Brain Pry picks the first nonland card in your deck (not your hand).
• Council of the Absolute and Meddling Mage pick either a sort-of-random (it's biased towards cards lower in your deck and cards just below lands) nonland card from your deck, or the card itself if your deck is empty or it twice found only lands. (Council of the Absolute shouldn't be able to pick creatures, including itself.)
• Conjurer's Ban and Nebuchadnezzar pick a random card from your deck.
• Sphinx Ambassador picks highest-rated creature card in your deck (or its deck, if it's searching its own).
• Declaration of Naught picks the highest-rated nonland card in your deck.
• Tunnel Vision picks a random card from your deck (or, noncheatingly, its own deck if the AI is the targeted player).
• Memoricide picks the bottommost nonland card in your deck.
• Vexing Arcanix picks a random card from the top ten cards in the AI's library.

Ones it doesn't cheat on:

• The wishes from Judgement always pick specific cards - Fireball for Burning Wish and Golden Wish (!), Ancestral Recall for Cunning Wish and Death Wish, Strip Mine for Living Wish.
• Glittering Wish picks a random multicolored card from the AI's deck.
• Desperate Research and Conundrum Sphinx pick a random card from the AI's deck.
• Phyrexian Revoker, Voidstone Gargoyle, Pithing Needle, and Runed Halo always pick a card in play, never an arbitrary card like the player can.
• Spawnsire of Ulamog picks All Is Dust, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. It'll play a second copy of each of the latter three if there isn't one on the battlefield after playing the first copy, to deal with the (old) legend rule; that seems redundant but harmless now.
• Research // Development and Isperia the Inscrutable look like they won't pick anything.
• The Chaos Orb vanguard avatar isn't activateable by the AI at all.

[Gargaroz]

- Added a more random choice for Cabal Therapy, Thought Hemorrhage and Null Chamber. I'll leave alone Demonic Consultation or probably the AI will never play it.
- Fixed AI choices for Golden Wish and Death Wish.
- Improved AI choice for Research // Development.
- Fixed AI selection code for Council of the Absolute.

[stassy]

Tested Sphinx Ambassador and seems to be after the 1st resolution of its effect, the next turn the game seems to choose another card other that the one player select.

Also the game cannot show the card AI choose.





In the last sc my choice was Ancestral Recall and Orochi Hatchery was played instead.

[stassy]

Also forgot to add that Sphinx Ambassador has the usual trigger-on-any-damage issue (City of Brass, etc...)

[Gargaroz]

Fixed the "all damage trigger" bug and now if the AI controls the Sphinx the card chosen its showed.

[Althuna]

I find that when an enemy creature is attacking, if I bounce it back to their hand using Cryptic Command or something, the AI just ends his turn without even spending any mana at all that turn. He should just re-cast the creature I bounced on their second main phase after combat ends.

I don't know if this always happens or only sometimes.

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Also there is a return of the issue where the AI doesn't play his cards. I'm not sure what I did to annoy him (I think maybe like above I bounced his creature back to his hand during the attack phase). But now he is going turn after turn without playing anything even though he has good cards in hand and enough mana to play it.

[HarlequinCasts]

When forced to choose between the signed or unsigned piles during the mass sacrifice ultimate of Liliana of the Veil, it seems the AI will always choose the signed pile. This of course means that Liliana of the Veil 's ultimate can be a one-sided Obliterate.

[Althuna]

Another one from me, I find that with Blood Clock he always chooses to lose life when some of the cards he has are perfect to be just bounced and played again (Wall of Omens etc).

I think there are some other times when he struggles with choices like this too.

[Gargaroz]

For Liliana of the Veil, there was a bug in the AI choice, and it's fixed.
For Blood Clock, the AI cannot discriminate between "good to bounce" and "not good to bounce" cards, so it will always choose to lose life, unless it's in a critical situation.

[Althuna]

Also I noticed that the AI will never suspend Riftwing Cloudskate or Reality Strobe. I can't remember if he will suspend any other cards, but those two, definitely not.

[Aswan jaguar]

Describe the Bug:
AI uses equipment on his creature with Makeshift Mannequin counter on it and kills it.Probably does this with other creatures with the ability "when this becomes the target of a spell or ability sacrifice it".


Which card did behave improperly ?
AI-

Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
ML3-ONSLAUGHT.V2

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?
AI in general terms uses creatures with this ability well.AI targets his creatures with spells and abilities mostly if they are to be stolen. maybe force AI to equip his creatures only if they are harmful to AI?

Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?

[stassy]

AI will not check gy when attacking or blocking with Rotting Giant, thus immediately burying it if empty

[gmzombie]

For me at least I notice if the s
Ai puts out a shockland it will always take the 2 life to bring it out untapped even if it has nothing to play

[Korath]

Resurrected the old code that makes the AI only pay life for shocklands if that'll make at least one card in its hand castable, last seen in Planeswalking to Modern but now interacting properly with Root Maze, Amulet of Vigor, etc., in 8a4ddb8. We'll see if it helps any.

[gmzombie]

ok So im playing some standard with my ai and for the life of me i cant ever get him to play ghor-clan rampager as a bloodrush card. only plays it for a creature. is there any workaround for that to at leat make it think about that and play it if it id possible? it plays the creature right so its not a bug i guess