[confirmed]Shining Shoal redirects damage equal damage card

by **Korath** » 29 Sep 2017, 05:18

Describe the bug:
At least Blazing Shoal, Nourishing Shoal, and Sickening Shoal always charge exactly , , or , respectively. You can't pay X other than 0, and you can't exile an appropriately-colored card to cast them without paying their mana costs. (Disrupting Shoal and Shining Shoal are less convenient to test definitively, because of the usual Manalink quirks with counterspells and damage prevention/redirection, so I didn't try.) FIXED

Which card behaved improperly?
Blazing Shoal, Nourishing Shoal, Sickening Shoal.

Which update are you using? (date, name)Which type? (duel, gauntlet, sealed deck)
Dev b775051 (2017 Sep 28).

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction?
{X}

or exile a red card with cmc X from your hand for Blazing Shoal. Analagously for the others.

Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug?
Most likely it's common to those five.

The actual corner case I was trying to test, and cannot, is whether Manalink lets you splice the card you choose to exile. (From 702.46a: "Example: Since the card with splice remains in the player's hand, it can later be cast normally or spliced onto another spell. It can even be discarded to pay a "discard a card" cost of the spell it's spliced onto.") So if, say, you have a Wastes, a Mountain, and a Memnite on the bf and a Blazing Shoal and Glacial Ray in your hand, you should be able to splice the Ray onto the Shoal, then pay for the combined spell for {1}

and exiling the Glacial Ray from your hand.

Bug 19111: Disrupting Shoal alt cost can use non-blue cards is either related to or superseded by this.

by **Aswan jaguar** » 30 Sep 2017, 17:51

I confirm this for all shoals.Except Shining Shoal all others don't have an effect since they are cast for 0 always, Shining Shoal though prevents/redirects all the damage inflicted by the source no matter it is cast for 0.

by **Aswan jaguar** » 21 Apr 2020, 16:51

Fixed everything here in commit d1f6037 except Shining Shoal resolution which still redirects all damage from damage card and not X or pitched cards cmc.

EDIT: Also the corner case with splice mentioned by Korath works fine.