Can you give us an example of one where you had to change the text?
My favorite example was Amonkhet's [In Oketra's Name]:
Oracle: Zombies you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Substitution: Zombies you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Non-Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
As I said above, anaphora resolution is hard. #wotc_staff
I wonder, how(ish) are cards written? I would've expected Dead Man's Chest to look under the hood like 'you may cast {non-land cards from among them}' or maybe '{non-land cards exiled this way that haven't since changed zones}', and then it would seem hard for Arena to mistake. Maybe the program is given only the same English text we see, at least initially until a bug crops up (like happened with Cry of the Carnarium after some creatures had died)?
Virtually always the parser is given the exact Oracle text of the card (and we consider it a sad failing if we have to use se different text). For most bugs including this and the Cry of the Carnarium one, we fix how the parser interprets that text. #wotc_staff
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Good old anaphora resolution, the blackest of linguistic magics. The parser asks "What are 'those spells'?" It walks back through the sentence, and sees "nonland cards", and didn't get the semantics of "from among them". Thanks for the report, I've got a fix ready. #wotc_staff.
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With an empty stack, the settings the client sends to the game server make it so that you do not get priority during your opponent's postcombat main phase (with the normally correct justification that you can do whatever you were going to do during the end step). The problem comes up only if the last thing your opponent does is get a permanent that has an end-step trigger.
Basically in order to not make this a spaghetti-code one-situation-exception, we need to pretty heavily rework our approach to how the game gives you priority by default. This is a pretty big undertaking.
Also, we're still working on future cardsets, bugfixes, etc. This problem is significant, but it's not the only task vying for our limited attention. #wotc_staff
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