i choose to use other cost instead of creating a brand new cost type.
otherrestriction determines if the card is the miracle for the turn.
[card]
name=Devastation Tide
auto=all(*[-land]) moveto(ownerhand)
other={1}{u} name(Miracle)
otherrestriction=miracle
text=Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. -- Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
mana={3}{U}{U}
type=Sorcery
[/card]
what this means is that if a player so choose, they can list the sets 3 letter code in the en.txt as follows
BOK=betrayers of kamikawa
it will now list the names either as the 3 letter code if thier is no entry, or as whatever you call it in the lang->en.txt file.
#HINT:good(icy prison)
ai will act as though the effects of this card are now good, choosing to cast it on it's own creatures.
#HINT:bad(ancestral recall)
ai will now use this card targeting the opponent.
good in cases where you are trying to mill the opponent
the effects in wagic have gotten so complex that ai simply has no idea what some cards should target. this helps in most of the cases.
adjusted normal difficulty to include 2 lands, 2 spells under 3 mana.
adjusted hard difficulty to always include 2 lands, the rest are randomly drawn. this prevents ai from being mana screwed on opening hand.
first, i added a timer to hide the big card after 5 secs or until a movement is registered.
2nd, removed the advancing of phases with flick up.
3rd added a flick left to "show/hide hand"
4th, fixed an error in the logic of "getDifficulty" part of the reason optimizedhand was not working.
finally, unrefactored the checks of optimized hand, it was FAR to difficult to see what was actually happening the way it was coded.
optimizedhand is finally working again,
toggledifficulty and optimizedhand will again trigger and greatly improve ai vs player matches
opponentpoolsave(
mypoolsave(
ex:Upwelling
added a tag for mana, doesntempty
add{g}{g}{g} doesntempty
what this does is make THAT mana remain in the pool until end of turn.
ex:
Sakura-Tribe Springcaller
added
cantbeblockerof(this)<--this = the card who owns the ability.
cantbeblockerof(targetchooser) <--the target cant block anything targetable by this targetchooser.
spin engine and similar will use cantbeblockerof(this).
others were done with a workaround, which i hope will be updated soon.
the other threads were running test suite at 0 which was causing race condition fails in test suite, i incremented by 1 until the normally passing test no longer failed, test effected were proliferate and mortician beetle both passing test in normal mode, failing in hyperspeed. test suite takes only 30 secs more to run but we can't sacrifice actual results for speed.
the commented out section is not even taken into account after first test is run.