WotC_BenFinkel

When you went to combat, could your angels actually not attack? When I get back to work on Monday I'll take a look. Very likely the game was marking them as unable to attack because they are indeed forbidden from attacking YOU and your planeswalkers by Sandwurm Convergence... as well as the normal rules of the game of course. #wotc_staff

We are taking very rapid action on this, thanks for the report. #wotc_staff

Thanks, we'll look into this. #wotc_staff

EDIT: We are having trouble reproducing this though. Please, if you see it again or have a reproduction, reach out to me with steps or a screenshot!

This website is where we encourage bug submissions, but obviously I read reddit too :D. We'll take a look into it, thanks for the report. #wotc_staff

Thanks for the report, we'll look into it! #wotc_staff

It looks like you are trying to mutate into [[Order of Midnight]]. That card is a human, and the rules of mutate specify that a mutating spell must have a nonhuman target. #wotc_staff

Sadly yeah, it's a bug. It will likely be with us on live for a couple weeks as it hasn't met the bar for hotfixing. #wotc_staff

I for one am very confused about why an embalmed Anointer Priest is used in this meme. Lithoform Engine's last ability doesn't interact with that! In fact, you can use the Engine's first ability targeting the Embalm ability, and then having Anointed Procession will result in you getting 4 total Anointer Priest tokens (2x embalm abilities, each of which creates 2 tokens). #wotc_staff

Ah, I see. I misread. #wotc_staff

By the rules of party, a single creature cannot be a full party. #wotc_staff

Thanks for the report, I've written a fix. #wotc_staff

Well, it's not machine learning, and Natural Language Processing-wise, we're not doing much interesting - it's a very stodgy "here is the dictionary, here are the syntactic productions" affair. The most interesting part, in my opinion, is the marriage between semantics and game rules. What information does the word "creature" impart? How do we go from a syntactic pattern that looks like an intervening-if trigger to the behavior that stewards those rules? And it evolves with every set. #wotc_staff

We do indeed parse the natural language! It's what generates the cards' code. I keep meaning to do an AMA or something about it but never find the time. #wotc_staff

I've been told that the update that fixes this will be performed later today. #wotc_staff

No, In Oketra's Name didn't understand what "Other creatures" was supposed to refer to, as 99%+ of the time "other [blah]" in MTG means other than a particular object rather than a category of objects. We substituted that phrase with "Non-zombie creatures" - ancient history! #wotc_staff

On it. Good ol' anaphora resolver misunderstood the card, it's checking "is the card you sacrificed a land in its new zone" rather than the last-known-information. Ideally we can hotfix this. #wotc_staff

Very interesting. This likely should instead result in a selection of what to attach the sword to, but the words "attach Ancestral Blade to it" mean the parser didn't think that was necessary. We'll try to fix this soon, but it likely won't make it live for a little while. Thanks for the report! #wotc_staff

I like to imagine it represents the circle around the mana/cost symbol. #wotc_staff

I could easily imagine "reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature, it deals damage equal to its power to any target." or a similar ability in black-border too! #wotc_staff

What's happening here is that our code for "prevent damage ... by [something]" is supposed to tell the client what objects damage is prevented by (so you're less likely to accidentally attack with such an object etc.). The bug here is that that code doesn't have any guards for the visibility of that [something] currently - until now, no words on a card in Arena could point to an object that wasn't publicly visible (they'd refer to spells or permanents, search for historic cards with "prevent" and "by" in their text!). #wotc_staff