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[2019] 3 Blocking Kitesails - How Do You Determine Which Order?


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Ran into a game losing situation on arena today. I had my Thief of Sanity blocked by 3 opposing Kitesails. 2 had cards underneath them that would have won me the game, one had nothing. On blockers, the UI for choosing order pops up and blocks the entire screen, so I have no way of telling which one I was dealing the damage to. Or was there and I just didn't know how?

Thanks!

Edit: wow busy day, so I've been away. Had no idea this issue would resonate with others so much. I mean, this issue certainly cost me the game but thankfully it was just one game. For the most part the game is fantastic. Glad to hear you are aware of this and working on it. And thanks for taking the time to reply /u/WotC_Jay

Edit 2: To clarify, I did use "View Battleground" to try and order them correctly but apparently those things are not synched. But it looks like that's being fixed in an upcoming patch. While this might not be the perfect solution, it certainly would have saved me this game so I'm all for it!

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over 5 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

There’s not really a way to tell in that situation currently. In our next update there are some improvements here, where the order is preserved when you “View Battlefield” from the order blockers screen. So you can note that the cards are under blockers 2&3, slide one of them over in order blockers, hit view battlefield to check, and you’ll see that blocker left-most in the order.

over 5 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by Mithrandir2k16

How about adding reminder text like "Exiles Cardname"?

There are similar issues with a number of other cards (which one has the enchantment? Which one has the equipment? Which one is protected by Dauntless Bodyguard? etc.) The added text solution only covers some of the cases, so that's why we went the way we did

over 5 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by very_gay_usd

awesome to hear! I want to also mention, this happens with responding to cards targeting cards in the graveyard.

so for example, if there are two Kitesails in my graveyard, and my opponent goes to reanimate one of these Kitesails, it is impossible to tell which one he is targeting if I want to exile the card in response.

We do have an indicator for this now, but it's obviously not clear enough (since we keep getting this feedback). If you hover over the cards in your graveyard, one of them will have a hanger (the text boxes on the side of the card in mouse-over) that says "Targeted by Eldest Reborn" (or whatever), so you can tell which is which. It's on our list to make this louder/more clear, but at least it is there now.

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