Programming a card

[Triadasoul]

The last card before i start to figure out how SVN works.

Lurking Informant

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cardfactory_creature:
//*************** START *********** START **************************
       else if(cardName.equals("Lurking Informant"))
       {
         final SpellAbility a1 = new Ability_Tap(card, "2")
         {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1446529067071763245L;
             public void resolve()
           {
                    String player = getTargetPlayer();
                    
                    PlayerZone lib = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Library, player);
                    PlayerZone grave = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Graveyard, player);
                    CardList libList = new CardList(lib.getCards());
                    Card c = libList.get(0);
                    String[] choices = {"Yes", "No"};
                    if(card.getController().equals(Constant.Player.Human))
                    {
                         Object o = AllZone.Display.getChoice("Mill " + c.getName() + " ?" , choices);
                         if(o.equals("Yes"))
                           {lib.remove(c);
                            grave.add(c);
                           }
                    }
                    else {
                    CardList landlist = new CardList();
                   landlist.addAll(AllZone.Human_Play.getCards());
                   // i have no better idea how AI could use it then letting draw unneeded lands
                   // this part will be good place to use card values lists or card values deck info
                   if (countLands(card) > 5 && !c.getType().contains("Land"))
                                  {
                                      lib.remove(c);
                                         grave.add(c);
                                  }
                  if (countLands(card) <= 5)
                                      {
                                   lib.remove(c);
                                   grave.add(c);
                                      }
                    }
                  
            
           }
             private int countLands(Card c)
           {
              PlayerZone play = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Play, c
                    .getController());
              CardList lands = new CardList(play.getCards());
              lands = lands.getType("Land");
              return lands.size();
           }
          
           public boolean canPlayAI()
           {
               String player = getTargetPlayer();
                PlayerZone lib = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Library, player);
                CardList libList = new CardList(lib.getCards());
                return libList.size() > 0;
           }
         };//SpellAbility
         card.addSpellAbility(a1);
         a1.setDescription("2, tap: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into that player's graveyard.");
         a1.setStackDescription("Lurking Informant ability");
         a1.setBeforePayMana(new Input_PayManaCost(a1));
         a1.setBeforePayMana(CardFactoryUtil.input_targetPlayer(a1));
       }//*************** END ************ END **************************
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Lurking Informant
1 UB
Creature Human Rogue
no text
1/2
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lurking_informant.jpg     http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/lurking_informant.jpg


[DennisBergkamp]

Also Gaddock Teeg =).
This could be implemented with casting cost altering (free spells/cheaper spells) to kill two birds with one stone. So we could set banned cards casting cost to 999999.

PS: I've pm'ed you the gmail account.

Well, I don't think setting banned cards casting cost to 99999 would be a good idea (I think about half of Mr Chaos' decks will still be able to cast these cards with those Gaea's Cradle and Priest of Titania ).
I was thinking of just using a keyword, "This card cannot be cast" maybe? I started coding an attempt, I'll post it once I've finished it and if it actually works

[Triadasoul]

I think about half of Mr Chaos' decks will still be able to cast these cards with those Gaea's Cradle and Priest of Titania

I think this will be too slow with PCs productivity

I was thinking of just using a keyword, "This card cannot be cast" maybe? I started coding an attempt, I'll post it once I've finished it and if it actually works

Great! thank you

Freaky Dovescape implementation of mine. But it seems to work with current counterspell implementation even if there are many copies of it in play.

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GameactionUtil
playCard_Dovescape(c);

public static void playCard_Dovescape(Card c)
   {
      PlayerZone hplay = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Play,
            Constant.Player.Human);
      PlayerZone cplay = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Play,
            Constant.Player.Computer);

      CardList list = new CardList();
      list.addAll(hplay.getCards());
      list.addAll(cplay.getCards());
        int cmc = CardUtil.getConvertedManaCost(c.getManaCost());
      list = list.getName("Dovescape");
      if ( ! c.getType().contains("Creature") && list.size()>0 ) {
   
         
         final Card card = list.get(0);

         Ability ability2 = new Ability(card, "0")
         {
            public void resolve()
            {
               SpellAbility sa = AllZone.Stack.pop();
               
                   AllZone.GameAction.moveToGraveyard(sa.getSourceCard());
         
            }
         }; // ability2

         ability2.setStackDescription("Dovescape Ability");
         AllZone.Stack.add(ability2);
   
      for (int j = 0; j < list.size()*cmc; j++)
      {
         Card crd = new Card();
            String controller = c.getController();
         crd.setOwner(controller);
         crd.setController(controller);
         
         crd.setName("Bird");
         crd.setImageName("WU 1 1 Bird");
         crd.setManaCost("WU");
         crd.setToken(true);

         crd.addType("Creature");
         crd.addType("Bird");
         crd.addIntrinsicKeyword("Flying");

         crd.setBaseAttack(1);
         crd.setBaseDefense(1);

         PlayerZone play = AllZone.getZone(Constant.Zone.Play, controller);
         play.add(crd);
      }
      }
   }
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cards.txt
Dovescape
3 WU WU WU
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, counter that spell. That player puts X 1/1 white and blue Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the spell’s converted mana cost.
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card-pictures.txt
dovescape.jpg         http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/dovescape.jpg


[Marek14]

Also Gaddock Teeg =).
This could be implemented with casting cost altering (free spells/cheaper spells) to kill two birds with one stone. So we could set banned cards casting cost to 999999.

PS: I've pm'ed you the gmail account.

Other cards that need mechanism for banning spellcasting:

Abeyance
AEther Storm
Arcane Laboratory
Brand of Ill Omen
Cease-Fire
Circu, Dimir Lobotomist (already mentioned)
Colfenor's Plans
Cornered Market
Ethersworn Canonist
Grid Monitor
Hand to Hand
Llawan, Cephalid Empress
Mana Maze
Orim's Chant
Oriss, Samite Guardian
Rule of Law
Sen Triplets
Silence
Steel Golem
Xantid Swarm
Yawgmoth's Agenda
Voidstone Gargoyle
(split second cards)
(epic cards)

And for activated abilities:
Arrest
Cursed Totem
Damping Matrix
Detainment Spell
Faith's Fetters
Gelid Shackles
Ice Cage
Interdict
Katabatic Winds
Lost in Thought
Null Rod
Pithing Needle
Prison Term
Serra Bestiary
Stasis Cocoon
Stupefying Touch
Trickbind
Volrath's Curse

As for cost changing, here are effects that increase costs of other spells or abilities:
Alabaster Leech
Andradite Leech
Aura of Silence
Brutal Suppression
Chill
Defense Grid
Derelor
Drought
Feroz's Ban
Gloom
Glowrider
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
High Seas
Hum of the Radix
Irini Sengir
Jade Leech
Kaervek's Torch
Ruby Leech
Sapphire Leech
Sphere of Resistance
Squeeze
Suppression Field
Thorn of Amethyst

Effects that reduce costs of other spells or abilities:
Ballyrush Banneret
Blood Funnel
Bosk Banneret
Brighthearth Banneret
Centaur Omenreader
Cloud Key
Daru Warchief
Dragonspeaker Shaman
Dream Chisel
Edgewalker
Emerald Medallion
Etherium Ssculptor
Frogtosser Banneret
Goblin Warchief
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
Helm of Awakening
Jet Medallion
Krosan Drover
Krosan Warchief
Locket of Yesterdays
Long-Forgotten Gohei
Mana Matrix
Mistform Warchief
Mycosynth Golem
Nightscape Familiar
Pearl Medallion
Planar Gate
Ruby Medallion
Sapphire Medallion
Spellwild Ouphe
Stinkdrinker Daredevil
Stone Calendar
Stonybrook Banneret
Stormscape Familiar
Sunscape Familiar
Thornscape Familiar
Thunderscape Familiar
Undead Warchief
Urza's Filter
Urza's Incubator

And, applied after all of these:
Trinisphere

[Triadasoul]

Dennis could you add in Gameactionutil executeEndofTurnEffects support similar to executeUpkeepEffects(), for transforming and removing effects from Thistledown Duo or Shorecrasher Mimic?

And what's up with Carnophage i've posted earlier ?

[Rob Cashwalker]

End of Turn effects are handled already -

AllZone.EndOfTurn.addUntil(Command)
AllZone.EndOfTurn.addAt(Command)

[Triadasoul]

End of Turn effects are handled already -

AllZone.EndOfTurn.addUntil(Command)
AllZone.EndOfTurn.addAt(Command)

Thank you, i think i had an idea how to implement Mimic then

[DennisBergkamp]

I see you figured out how to use the SVN, very good

I haven't added Carnophage and Sangrophage yet because I'd like to figure out what's going on with the AI's upkeep first. I know the first few phases have always been kind of buggy (upkeep kind of flows over into the draw phase sometimes), but I did not know the AI's upkeep happened AFTER untap

I've also figured out how to do "uncastable". Meddling Mage seems to work, when it leaves play, the named card can be cast again. I'll also add Iona, Shield of Emeria and Gaddock Teeg, + perhaps some more cards listed by Marek.

[Rob Cashwalker]

It's supposed to be Untap, Upkeep, Draw, Main1, Combat, Main2, End.

[DennisBergkamp]

Argh, yes I meant to say "I didn't know the AI's upkeep is BEFORE his untap phase"

[Triadasoul]

Great! When i figure out how to update my local version with it automatically, i'll try that lobotomist.

PS: Not only AI'a but a player's upkeep is also before an untap phase.

[DennisBergkamp]

Updating your local version should work through Team -> update. Sometimes there's some conflicts though, in the Team Synchronize Perspective, you can right click on the files with conflicts, then choose "Edit conflicts". A text compare should pop up between the local and remote versions of the file. When you're done with the changes, save it, and click "Mark as resolved". Then you can also commit the file.

Of course, you can always start a new project, and just import directly from SVN.


About the untap being before upkeep for the player, that seems to work correctly though in Forge, right ?

The Lobotomist might be trickier by the way, you'd have to somehow keep track of the cards he removed.

[Triadasoul]

Thank you i've already figured out with synchronization. But i want to have some test copy for my experiments with it, cause not all of my cards work well and they shouldn't be synchronized of course.

Nope, those Carnophages (without keyword "this doesn't untap....") become untapped at player's main1 phase in case their upkeep cost wasn't payed.

Yes i've already encountered this complexity about the list )). Is it correct to build an array of cardnames ? And by the way should there be two entries of lobotomist ability one for spell tracking and one for spell banning purposes or could it be done all in one spell-tracking block ( like Fable of Wolf and Owl )?

[nantuko84]

But i want to have some test copy for my experiments with it, cause not all of my cards work well and they shouldn't be synchronized of course.

Well, you can use SVN branches for any experiments. If you do, you do not need to create separate folder for your cards, all your code will be in the same folder and SVN will handle different versions by itself. All you need, is just to switch between branches. And later, when any branch is done, you can merge it back into trunk (that is main brunch). I often use branching for features that can break current version. Though need to say that GIT is more comfortable with branching than SVN.

[Triadasoul]

Thank you i'll try it. =)

I have some problem with my Dovescape cause it's countering last ability in the stack instead of the first spell in the stack. How can i get the first spell from the stack full of abilities?