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26 Feb

Weird Interaction: Underworld Breach and Light Up the Stage

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Originally posted by Douglasjm

The semantics laid out in rules 607.1 and 607.1c are essentially that every noun that comes from such things is its own unique thing with its own unique identity, and that all references to it refer to that unique identity. Whenever a card creates, acts on, or describes some number of objects, those objects should get a unique label that all linked references to them should use.

You establish the inter-ability (and intra-ability) references by considering the card in isolation, and then nothing added by other cards can become part of those references.

As I alluded to, the notion is that having a computer resolve anaphora is hard. Remember that the code is generated from the English text, with only extraordinary circumstances getting a "human touch" for aiding that. Light Up the Stage reads "you may play those cards.". The parser has to determine "what are 'those cards'"? I invite you to peruse the over 150 extant examples of that phrase on M:tG cards to see that there can be a variety of ways to interpret that phrase.

Suffice to say, I've implemented a fix (the one I alluded to above, where cards zone-transferred to pay a cost are marked differently than cards zone-transferred during a resolution step) and it will likely go live with the Strixhaven release. #wotc_staff

Weird Interaction: Underworld Breach and Light Up the Stage

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Originally posted by freestorageaccount

When in doubt, blame anaphora. Thanks

I mean it's not totally wrong? Although really the bug is the fact that the semantics for the noun that comes out of "Exile the top two cards of your library" effectively means "cards that were exiled due to this spell", and there's nothing that stops the cards you exiled for Escape for counting for that. My expectation is that the will be to make the Escape payment cards get labelled differently, perhaps "cards that were exiled to pay for this spell via ability [foo]"; after all, someday we'll probably want to implement [[Soulflayer]]. #wotc_staff

Weird Interaction: Underworld Breach and Light Up the Stage

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Originally posted by Zllsif

Maybe ask an Arena dev if this interaction is intentional?

u/WotC_BenFinkel Does this work?

I can confirm this is a bug, and I'm working on a fix for it today. #wotc_staff

You cannot cast foretold card with... as foretold?!

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Originally posted by Judge_Todd

Hey, u/WotC_BenFinkel

Thanks for the report, I can imagine how this could happen (as the facedown card in exile's "cardback" face has mana value 0). I'll look into this tomorrow. #wotc_staff


25 Feb


19 Feb

NO 100-Card Historic Brawl next week, 60-Cards decks instead

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Originally posted by thisistravis57

My guess is technical issues, at least they're not scrapping it entirely.

It is a technical issue. We would not make this change if it weren't necessary.


18 Feb

FEB 18 - Scheduled Maintenance

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Feb 18, 19:16 UTC
Completed - Scheduled maintenance is now complete. Patch notes are available, here: https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/70859

For Android players, it may take several hours for the update to appear on the Google Play store, and it may appear in some regions before others.

Feb 18, 16:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Feb 17, 21:00 UTC
Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled maintenance on February 18 at approximately 8:30 a.m. PT (16:30 UTC) to deploy the 2021.01.30 game update. Maintenance is expected to last approximately two hours.

While no downtime is expected, this is a required u...

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FEB 18 - 2021.01.30 Patch Notes

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Gameplay

User Interface

  • Exile animations, particularly when being done to pay a cost, have been sped up.
  • Extremely large queues of abilities or spells on the stack should no longer cause draws.
    • Developer's Note: Should being the operative word. We've been unable to force a draw internally with this, but we know some of you will take this as a challenge.
  • Floating mana now splits into distinct piles when being autotapped.

Bug Fixes

Cards

  • Thriving Lands that enter the battlefield with a Blood Sun in play will now correctly tap for mana.
    • . . . We're guessing no one noticed, but still, glad we fixed it.
    • Edit: Okay, someone did notice.
  • When Littjara Kinseekers enters the battlefield, its triggered ability no longer counts back-face creatu...
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