[2019] Dear WotC, why is the default behaviour of resolving an Oath of Kaya trigger when one's rope runs out to target your OWN face?

If you run out of time, autoresponder takes over. Autoresponder has one goal: successfully get to the end of the turn. It will do what it considers the simplest possible decisions to get there, regardless of how good those decisions are.

For selecting targets, it will pick the lowest id(s) it's offered. In this game, you appear to be player 1, so it picked you instead of your opponent player 2.

As far as I'm aware we have no plans on making this process "smarter". The (relative) simplicity of the system has a lot of advantages. If you are regularly running out of time with this deck, can you link a video of it so we can see if there are opportunities to improve the timer rules to support its play patterns? #wotc_staff