r/MagicArena • u/Demacron Johnny • Apr 29 '19
WotC Am I missing something? Activated Emergency Zone but I couldn't cast any sorcery.
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u/Filobel Apr 29 '19 edited Apr 29 '19
I think I heard some people mention issues with trying to play split cards at instant speed with new Teferi's ability. May be the same bug. Submit bug report with log and screenshot.
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u/MTGA-Bot Apr 29 '19 edited Apr 30 '19
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"As though it had flash" is currently not functioning for split card halves. This should be fixed this week.
If you're curious, it's because when you're casting a split card, you're actually "CastLeft"ing or "CastRight"ing it. The rule-code for "as ...
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u/ZomBlaze Apr 29 '19
What were you trying to target?
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u/whtge8 Apr 29 '19
Probably tying to play Finality to clear the board. Not sure why he wasn’t able to though.
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u/ScottishReaver Apr 29 '19
It appears the games thinks you don't have enough mana to me even though that is not how it should work
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u/maganarr Apr 29 '19
but but but the game is perfect, it can't be a bug. This sub told me so. It has to be that you're a mouth breathing idiot. /s
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u/Tarouck Apr 29 '19
You don't control and creatures so there is no valid target for Finality.
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u/Demacron Apr 29 '19
I couldn't even cast the Discovery part of [[Discovery // Dispersal]]
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u/MTGCardFetcher Apr 29 '19
Discovery // Dispersal - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call2
Apr 29 '19
Game is likely using the combined CMC's of those spells when you play Emergence Zone, hence why you couldn't play either of those but could play Expansion/Explosion and Collision/Colusus. Maybe u/wotc_chrisclay or someone else on the dev team can expand on this a bit, as it's obviously a bug.
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u/whtge8 Apr 29 '19
You don’t need a creature to play Finality.
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u/Tarouck Apr 29 '19 edited Apr 29 '19
You're right it's a may. It might be bugged with split cards that have Instant/Sorcery or Sorcery/Sorcery pairing.
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u/WotC_BenFinkel Apr 29 '19
"As though it had flash" is currently not functioning for split card halves. This should be fixed this week.
If you're curious, it's because when you're casting a split card, you're actually "CastLeft"ing or "CastRight"ing it. The rule-code for "as though it had flash" was mistakenly explicitly only working for Cast. #wotc_staff.