Card AI (Improvements) Requests

[DecoyDecoy]

I used Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord 's ability on a 14/14 Saphire Drake, and it made the AI lose 24 life. Not sure why.

Sounds like a bug report. Had you used the ability earlier that game?

No, that was the first time I had used the ability that duel. Or even that same launch of the program.


Also, just happened: Elvish farmer did not remove the counters from it, so it just put 17 1/1 tokens on the field.

[friarsol]

I used Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord 's ability on a 14/14 Saphire Drake, and it made the AI lose 24 life. Not sure why.

Sounds like a bug report. Had you used the ability earlier that game?

No, that was the first time I had used the ability that duel. Or even that same launch of the program.


Also, just happened: Elvish farmer did not remove the counters from it, so it just put 17 1/1 tokens on the field.

Please don't post bugs in this thread. Many other people are also reporting the same remove counter bug in the release thread already, so someone will be taking a look

[Doomlord]

The AI plays Vesuva without copying anything, which is entirely useless. It does so even with other lands in play, so there are things it could be copying.

The AI also plays cards like Clone without considering if there is anything in play it could potentially copy, and so wastes those cards by not copying anything. If there is something to copy, then unlike with Vesuva it does, but it doesn't take that into account when playing them.

Also, I've had the AI ninjustu back and forth the same pair or cards, each time putting one into play and returning the other, until it runs out of mana.

[lazylockie]

. Grand Arbiter Augustin IV didn't reduce my Sphinx's Revelation cost by 2. I paid 3WUU and was supposed to draw 5 and gain 5, but I only drew 3 and gained 3

[friarsol]

. Grand Arbiter Augustin IV didn't reduce my Sphinx's Revelation cost by 2. I paid 3WUU and was supposed to draw 5 and gain 5, but I only drew 3 and gained 3

That's not an AI improvement. This is the way most X spells work right now, they don't support cost reduction. Certain X spells do work with it, and we'll slowly get all of them changed over.

[Max mtg]

Costs with X announced get reduced correctly. Should convert all spells to use announce mechanism.
On the other hand, AFAIK AI is unable to choose X for that kind of spells.

[lazylockie]

. Grand Arbiter Augustin IV didn't reduce my Sphinx's Revelation cost by 2. I paid 3WUU and was supposed to draw 5 and gain 5, but I only drew 3 and gained 3

That's not an AI improvement. This is the way most X spells work right now, they don't support cost reduction. Certain X spells do work with it, and we'll slowly get all of them changed over.

I was going to post something else here (and was supposed to post this on the 1.3.12 thread) but ended up posting it here. Sorry!

[Doomlord]

The AI doesn't cast the cards he has exiled with Intet, the Dreamer.
It's not a mana issue, as Intet says that those cards can be played without paying their mana costs.
Yet the AI doesn't.

[Nordos]

AI played an Island. He had another Island and a Drowned Catacomb at his hand. He prefered to play the other Island despite having a Tormented Soul on the hand, too.
AI prefers to Cipher it's stronges creature. Can it somehow to be scripted, that he prefers unblockable over flying over trampel over normal creatures? At the moment I don't quite grasp how he is handling cipher. He had a Dimir Lobotomist, an Invisible Stalker and a Tormented Soul on the battlefield. He casted Last Thought and ciphered it to the Lobotomist. Then he played Undercity Plague and ciphered it onto the Invisible Stalker.
The best option for the AI would be to cipher them on the Invisible Stalker. Then again, he doesn't attack with him due to my high power creatures, yet he attacks with his tormented Soul because it can't block ...
Afterwards he ciphered a Stolen Identity onto his Invisible Stalker. Would he attack with it, he could clone another creature and thus wouldn't loose a blocker... (same goes for Hand of Binding - he could just keep hostile creatures tapped)
I had three life left. He controlled two Tormented Soul and one Invisible Stalker. He only attacked with the Souls

[Sawteeth]

The AI will frequently pay 2 life for a shockland to come into play untapped even if it has nothing to cast.

Additionally, it will Strip Mine Dakmor Salvage instead of the Overgrown Tomb sitting next to it.

Not to mention the AI thinks nothing of casting Nyxathid while I hold 7 cards in hand.

[RevivedPicard]

there is an error in the card Isochron scepter .... i played it exiling path to exile than my oponent make it return to my hand i replay it choosing to exil lightning helix and then ... i could play both path and helix with my sceppter ... forge gives me right to choose which one play in a pop-up window .....

[Max mtg]

AI has Island and Tectonic Edge.
I have 3 forests, Gavony Township, Avacyn Pilgrim.
I cast Birthing Pod (have already tapped all my lands), in response AI sacs Tectonic to destroy Gavony Township.

Looks like a stupid and useless action. Ai won't win anything by that, but will stay with a single land.

[krevett]

Speaking about lands AI always choose to lose 2 life to get ravlands coming into play untapped during their first turn even if they don't have any 1cmc spell to play.

[gos]

AI does not play cards with rebound on the rebound, so to speak, as far as I can see.

[Sloth]

AI played an Island. He had another Island and a Drowned Catacomb at his hand. He prefered to play the other Island despite having a Tormented Soul on the hand, too.
AI prefers to Cipher it's stronges creature. Can it somehow to be scripted, that he prefers unblockable over flying over trampel over normal creatures? At the moment I don't quite grasp how he is handling cipher. He had a Dimir Lobotomist, an Invisible Stalker and a Tormented Soul on the battlefield. He casted Last Thought and ciphered it to the Lobotomist. Then he played Undercity Plague and ciphered it onto the Invisible Stalker.
The best option for the AI would be to cipher them on the Invisible Stalker. Then again, he doesn't attack with him due to my high power creatures, yet he attacks with his tormented Soul because it can't block ...
Afterwards he ciphered a Stolen Identity onto his Invisible Stalker. Would he attack with it, he could clone another creature and thus wouldn't loose a blocker... (same goes for Hand of Binding - he could just keep hostile creatures tapped)

I tried to improve this a little.

I had three life left. He controlled two Tormented Soul and one Invisible Stalker. He only attacked with the Souls

That shouldn't really happen and i can't reproduce this. Was there anything special on the battlefield?

Not to mention the AI thinks nothing of casting Nyxathid while I hold 7 cards in hand.

Fixed! Thanks Sawteeth.

AI does not play cards with rebound on the rebound, so to speak, as far as I can see.

Fixed! Thanks gos.