Manalink Update June 2 2009 - The race to 2000

[jatill]

http://www.savefile.com/files/1997761

Updates:
-Yawgmoth's Will now plays nicely with Fastbond / Exploration / land drop for turn
-Yawgmoth's Will is now a Sorcery. All is right with the world.
-Rules Engine and Vanguard Avatars are no longer enchantments, with all the badness that went along with it!!
(thanks HarryPitfall)
-Remove the ugly bullseye from the Rules Engine and Vanguard Avatars
-Fixed the Duress bug that crashed the game
-Update the text and type for the rules engine card
-Move Draft and AVATAR cards to the beginning of the deck builder

Added cards:
Sundering Titan
Crucible of Worlds

By the way, this is the image that I use for the rules engine:

[Salbei]

awesome !
another 2 of my favorite T1 cards. gonna check em out right now .
hmm goblin welder *dream*

edit -

k checked the new cards out . they seem alright so far.

one small thing about the sundering titan: as long as there are legal targets you HAVE to choose it. currently you can just cancel if you don´t want to pick a land (your own^^). no biggy , but it might get abused.

[stassy]

The thinking hard might be a bit related to difficulty, but not only because if you just fill the ai with a land deck it will go "hard thinking" with 20 or more land in play on his side. Also maybe it's just that when there are too many cards in play his thinking node take too much to decide too (happen a lot on hermit/PoR deck).

[jatill]

one small thing about the sundering titan: as long as there are legal targets you HAVE to choose it. currently you can just cancel if you don´t want to pick a land (your own^^). no biggy , but it might get abused.

Nice catch; I had a couple lines of code out of order. And don't worry, Goblin Welder is on my list.

[Salbei]

once you got cryptic command in your hand and got the mana to play it something seems to be messed up. after every spell it asks "fast effects ...use regeneration effects" which is kinda annoying.
even if the AI or yourself just play a land it asks for it.

[aww1979]

YAWGMOTH'S WILL...

Crucible of Worlds is really nice, too. I haven't ever play with Sundering Titan, but that looks great, too Time to test them out...

[MalkolmX]

Crucible of worlds seems perfect, i didn't found any bugs yet, Yaw's Will is also quite well made, despite some minor bugs.

[Shulillo]

create troll ascetic please!!, and thank for all cardsss

[jatill]

create troll ascetic please!!, and thank for all cardsss

never.

[jatill]

http://www.savefile.com/files/1997761

Updates:
-Make Sundering Titan targets mandatory
-Gauntlet of Power re-added, and original bug fixed (as a thanks to HarryPitfall)

Added cards:
Kitchen Finks
High Tide (no art)
Cloud of Faeries (no art)
Wilt-Leaf Liege* (I couldn't determine a way of knowing who was responsible for the discard, so
I that part was left off. Pretty disappointing. Any ideas are welcome.)

[Zeek]

Wilt-Leaf Liege* (I couldn't determine a way of knowing who was responsible for the discard, so
I that part was left off. Pretty disappointing. Any ideas are welcome.)

Is there any way to check the history of the stack to see which spell or ability was resolved last? Perhaps finding the owner of that would help, although I know quite a few things don't necessarily use the stack in this game.

Just throwing out something random. *shrugs*

[jatill]

Wilt-Leaf Liege* (I couldn't determine a way of knowing who was responsible for the discard, so
I that part was left off. Pretty disappointing. Any ideas are welcome.)

Is there any way to check the history of the stack to see which spell or ability was resolved last? Perhaps finding the owner of that would help, although I know quite a few things don't necessarily use the stack in this game.

Just throwing out something random. *shrugs*

I appreciate the suggestion. This is the same thought I had. I can keep a history of spells, but I don't know anywhere that abilities are recorded. Also, that wouldn't factor in end of turn discarding (though I could probably work around that). So yeah, the main problem seems to be abilities.

[0rion79]

create troll ascetic please!!, and thank for all cardsss

never.

LOL!
Well, it doesn't look as a bad card but I've seen more interesting stuff until now

[Salbei]

I appreciate the suggestion. This is the same thought I had. I can keep a history of spells, but I don't know anywhere that abilities are recorded. Also, that wouldn't factor in end of turn discarding (though I could probably work around that). So yeah, the main problem seems to be abilities.

whenever effect on stack resolves from player1(you) //if you play a spell/ability and it resolves
set last_sa_owned=1 //the last resolved spell/ability is set to 1 (player)

whenever effect on stack resolves from player2(opponent) // if your opponent resolves a spell/ability
set last_sa_owned=2 //the last resolved spell/ability is set to 2 (opponent)

at the beginning of discard_step //at the beginning of any discard step
set last_sa_owned=0 // the last resolved spell/ability is set to 0

if this card is put into graveyard from hand // when this card is put into the graveyard from your hand
and last_sa_owned=2 // and the last spell was owned by player2 (opponent)
and you are player1 //and you are player1
remove it from the graveyard // remove the card out of the graveyard
put into play // and put the card into play
else // or else
do nothing // leave the card inside the graveyard

hope you get what i was up to,or at least i can amuse you xD

[jatill]

whenever effect on stack resolves from player1(you) //if you play a spell/ability and it resolves
set last_sa_owned=1 //the last resolved spell/ability is set to 1 (player)

This is the part I don't know how to do. As far as I know, there is no way the game indicates globally that an ability has resolved. For spells, there is an event called ' TRIGGER_SPELL_CAST' that lets me know a spell was played. I don't know of any such trigger for abilities.