Two example codes:
[card]
name=Alabaster Leech
auto=lord(*[white]|myhand) white:+1
autoexile=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autograveyard=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autohand=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autolibrary=all(*|myhand) resetcost
text=White spells you cast cost {W} more to cast.
mana={W}
type=Creature
subtype=Leech
power=1
toughness=3
[/card]
[card]
name=Helm of Awakening
auto=lord(*|myhand) colorless:-1
auto=lord(*|opponenthand) colorless:-1
autoexile=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autograveyard=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autohand=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autolibrary=all(*|myhand) resetcost
text=Spells cost {1} less to cast.
mana={2}
type=Artifact
[/card]
autoexile=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autograveyard=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autohand=all(*|myhand) resetcost
autolibrary=all(*|myhand) resetcost
----> This code section is necessary, because manacost altering cards will keep their effect even when they have left the battlefield. RESETCOST erases all alterations which have no existing source on the battlefield anymore.
2) Added the new keyword TRANSFORM, which is similar to BECOMES. The main difference is that you can change single parameters of a permanent (color,type,...).
Example codes:
[card]
name=Memnarch
auto={1}{U}{U}:target(*) transforms(artifact)
auto={3}{U}:moveTo(myBattlefield) target(arifact)
text={1}{U}{U}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) -- {3}{U}: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
mana={7}
type=Legendary Artifact Creature
subtype=Wizard
power=4
toughness=5
[/card]
[card]
name=Dralnu's Crusade
auto=lord(goblin) 1/1
auto=lord(goblin) transforms(zombie,black)
text=Goblin creatures get +1/+1. -- All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.
mana={1}{B}{R}
type=Enchantment
[/card]
Important notes concerning TRANSFORM:
- IF YOU TARGET A CREATURE THE EFFECT IS PERMINENT.
- IF YOU TARGET THE SOURCE THE EFFECT IS UNTIL END OF TURN.
- IF YOU USE LORD THE EFFECT LAST TIL PERMINENT SOURCE LEAVES PLAY.
These restrictions will probably be changed in the near future!
3) Added 57 successfully tested cards.
Card list ---> first comment
4) Changed the name of several tokens: "()" used to cuase crashes when used in the name-line.
5) Added the new keyword NONBATTLEZONE for leaves play trigger optimizing. It can be used to replace the phrase "EXILE,GRAVEYARD,HAND,LIBRARY".
I will add tests for test suite in one of the next revisions!!
####### TEST SUITE PROVEN ########
Zethfox: "Opponenthand gui access, cards that target(*|opponenthand) can now be coded as such, target chooser will activate allowing you to click the new icon under the avatar of the opponent and open the opponents hand Gui so you may select the target card."
Cards in opponents hand are only viewable when target choosing would allow you to enter that zone! ;)
- Added the new keyword "NAME". (by Zethfox).
When used in an autoline it replaces an autoline's "ability" text with a custom ability name.
The basic phrase is: "auto=name(whatever you want) &&".
Example card:
[card]
name=Order of the Stars
abilities=defender
auto=choice name(white) && counter(0/0,1,White) all(this)
auto=choice name(blue) && counter(0/0,1,Blue) all(this)
auto=choice name(black) && counter(0/0,1,Black) all(this)
auto=choice name(red) && counter(0/0,1,Red) all(this)
auto=choice name(green) && counter(0/0,1,Green) all(this)
auto=this(counter{0/0.1.White}) protection from white
auto=this(counter{0/0.1.Blue}) protection from blue
auto=this(counter{0/0.1.Black}) protection from black
auto=this(counter{0/0.1.Red}) protection from red
auto=this(counter{0/0.1.Green}) protection from green
text=Defender (This creature can't attack.) -- As Order of the Stars enters the battlefield, choose a color. -- Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.
mana={W}
type=Creature
subtype=Human Cleric
power=0
toughness=1
[/card]
The popup window for this card will now contain a list with
"white,"blue","black","red" and "green"
instead of
"ability","ability","ability","ability","ability".
This will make a lot of cards much easier to handle!
- Added 42 successfully test using one (or both) new keywords.
Card list --> First comment
Note that we did not add tests for both new keywords:
It is simply not possible to write them yet! They will follow as soon as they are possible. We guarantee that everything we submitted in this revision has been tested excessively!
The engine always handled it as "REGENERATE" and thus had to be renamed. Its new name is "CANTREGEN". It has been tested excessively by me and Zethfox. Now all cards with the former "cantregenerate" work as they should.
- I also added a test for "CANTREGEN" (Incinerate).
- Added the new keyword "FOG" (by Zethfox).
This is an equivalent for "PREVENTALLCOMBATDAMAGE", which only worked for instants and sorceries. "Fog" works only for permanents and is used in combination with the newly introduced parameter "ONESHOT"!
- I also added 2 tests for "FOG" (Maze of Ith, Spore Frog).
Both additions lead to several issue fixes:
Fixed issue286.
Fixed issue328.
Fixed issue332.
Fixed issue416.
- Removed Demonic Torment, Gaseous Form, General's Kabuto, Sandskin. Those cards never worked and could even not be fixed with "FOG".
- Optimized the code of the dragon-lair land-cycle from PLS and added 2 tests for them.
- Added 8 successfully tested cards. Card list -> first comment.
- new features by Zethfox:
-- "oneshot" optional parameters for lords (helps fixing issues with bouncelands)
-- Life as a cost (avoids using a dirty trick of paying life as an effect)
-- set life total abilitiy (lifeset
-- new auto lines: autostack, autoexile
The test suite passes with these changes, also no test using these abilities has been added yet
- updated pt translation (thanks to almosthumane)
- Added/updated some Themes by Ilya B
- Added a random wallpaper loading at loading screen (see wallpapers.txt in Res/graphics)
- Saving decks and collection should now be a bit more secure (attempt at minimizing issue 393)
- fix issue 392 (broken tests)
- Fix a bunch of memory leaks (guys please be careful!)
- Added Logging facility in JGE
- HBL Compatibility (cleaned up some code with MP3 in JGE)
- Added "winGame" ability. Currently used mostly by the story mode, but some cards could probably need it too
- Improved story mode and uncommented it from the source.
-- The current campaign is of course very basic, anybody who wants to improve it or create other ones feel free to do so
-- TODO (short term): save progress, rewards system, improve tutorial campaign
-- I'll talk a bit more about this on the forums/email after a night of sleep
upcost[cost[,phase]] effect
cost is any cost that you might use for an auto line, including sacrifice and counters, phase is optional and defaults to upkeep, phase can have an optional prefix next which will make it so you only need to pay the cost once.
Effect is any effect that can go in an auto line and only goes off if cost is not paid during phase. For example, force of nature would be: auto=upcost[{G}{G}{G}{G}] damage:4 controller.
goblin patrol would have: auto=upcost[{R},next upkeep] moveto(mygraveyard)
use "trigger" inside target code of triggered ability.
does not work with @each and @next.
@damaged can use trigger[to] and trigger[from] to specify the target or source of the damage, respectively.
Adds cards:
Aether Flash
Bramblewood Paragon
In the Web of War
Juniper Order Ranger
Mortuary
Primal Forcemage
Fungus Sliver
Simic Initiate
as well as a test file for feral hydra, missing from my last commit.
and daily build.
Salmelo:"Here is another patch, this time adding counters to target specifications, so now you should be able to target things with counters on them as well as use counters for criterion for Lord, aslongas, foreach, etc.
I had to muddle the syntax a little bit though, so heres an example, taken from gwafa hazid, whom I added to the primitives to test with.
lord(creature[counter{0/0.1.Bribe}]|opponentbattlefield) cantattack
obviously the part we are worried about is the counter part, note that those are curly braces { } and periods . instead of parentheses ( ) and commas , this is so that it does not conflict with how targets are normally parsed, which it did before I changed those. Counters still work the same way everywhere else though, you only need to use { } and periods in target code.
Also, you can use counter{any} to specify that it should look for things with any kind of counter on them, not just specific ones, this is used by Kulrath Knight, for example.
I also consolidated most of the code used to parse counter specifications, as it seemed unnecessary duplicating it three times.
Anyway, aside from this major addition, I also added Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer; and Kulrath Knight to the primitives, as well as a test file for each to make sure it worked.
Hopefully y'all will find this patch useful.
Oh, and I should point out that it only works with one Counter in the target specification, i imagine if you put two in the same one then it would either overwrite the first with the second or merge them into some sort of hybrid counter monstrosity, either way, I wouldn't suggest it. "
Cards with vanishing are also codable now. Have a look at the comments for explanation.
daily_build.
- Added remove/add counters as a cost, patch by Salmelo, thanks man!. See primitives/mtg.txt -> Thallid to see how it works
- added test for i286 by salmelo
- added basic display for counters (this needs improvement) by salmelo
* Fixes for compilation on 64-bit architectures :
string position-returning functions return size_t, not uint.
Fix that.
* Fixes warnings with new gcc about non-fixed string AND no arguments.
NOTE : 64-bit architectures still do not compile. There are 2 different places
where printf is used with a specifier that is not large enough on 64-bit because
size_t is now a ulong and not a uint. The solution on GNU systems is the %zu
specifier, but as I'm not sure it is supported on windows I don't want to
introduce a huge hard-to-notice bug, so I'll do it at a time when I got a
windowser to back me up.
- fix for issue 301 (creatures go to graveyard)
- This adds an important change to "movedTo", which now accepts a "full" target description in both "from" and "movedTo". The point is that a card does not move to "creature|graveyard" from "battlefield" but moves from "creature|battlefield" to "graveyard".
Notes to programmers:
1. This feature uses an awful lot of copy-pasta, using "protetcion from()" as a base. While I'm learning the architecture, it's easier for me to have a dedicated single-purpose piece of code to work with, than trying to create multi-purpose code. I'm aware that this isn't a very elegant approach though, and I hope to be able to refactor additions like this into multi-purpose code once I have a better understanding of the architecture as a whole.
2. Please check the questions I'll add in my next code comments, specifically about AI integration and activated abilities / instants / sorceries.
3. I did have a crash (with the debugger complaining about stack corruption around the cd variable) during testing. I wasn't able to reproduce it though. I did have to clean the solution in-between when I updated to the primitives system, so perhaps there was this cleaning solved whatever corruption was in my files. I'm mentioning the issue in case someone has an idea on where my code might be risky (I'm still probne to making beginners mistakes).
- Card Primitives system. Check Royal Assassin in RV, 10E, M10
- Please review, is sets/primitives a good directory? Should we rename MTGCard into "CardPrint"?
- Unfortunately for now it is not possible to "override" a Primitive. A card that links to a primitive but also defines new "values" will create its own data and ignore the data in the "linked" primitive for the time being. I hope to solve that at some point...
Limitations:
- Operators for "greater than", "less than", "unequal" have not been implemented, but if a card actually needs them, you can use a preceding minus sign to negate a comparison. Example: -power=3 means "power not equal to 3", -toughness<=3 means "toughness>3".
- You can't use spaces when specifying such restrictions. Write "power<=3" instead of "power <= 3"
- You now need to use a space before the "<" and ">" commands that count the matches for lord(), foreach(), all() and aslongas(). So far we always did use spaces in front of them without actually needing to, now we need to.
- manacost restrictions don't take "X" costs into account. Example: Mistmeadow Skulkin (FUT) has protection from manacost>=3. Blaze has a converted manacost of 1, but when you cast it with an X of 2, then it actually has a converted manacost of 3 while on the stack, and Mistmeadow Skulkin would be protected from it, but currently it isn't.
Please review the code, I'll add a few remarks/questions of my own.
-fix issue 161 (brass man can untap outside of upkeep). Use "myUpkeepOnly" keyword. Other keywords such as "myDrawOnly" of course work. Haven't implemented "opponent" yet, is it needed ?
- fix issue 168 (kudzu)
- Fix issue 162 (copy VS shroud). This fix introduces a new keyword: NotATarget() instead of Target(). (Which was the best way for me to keep some kind of backward compatibility/ not alter the code too much / fix the bug)
- fixed divergent growth (issue 243). Unfortunately the underlying issue is quite complex, and Wagic doesn't handle it very well. Basically, all "until end of turn" effects run the risk of being partially deleted before the end of the turn, leading to segfaults or memory leaks. This is because some abilities' "clone" method doesn't actually clone them entirely... The fix for divergent growth is a hack that works only for lords+mana producer combination, but I need a more "generic fix" in the long run...
- fix a memory leak with "Prevent All combat damages" ability
- Fix issue 242 (Equip can be used outside of the main phases)
- introducing "attach" keyword. Same as equip but can be used anytime. Untested
- introducing "asSorcery" keyword. Can be used the same way as "myTurnOnly" on activated abilities to restrict their usage. Untested. Other similar keywords will follow, please let me know which ones would be useful
- Adding cycling. Check Akroma's vengeance in ONS for an example. Note that this uses autohand instead of auto, this is important! You can also use autograveyard.
- All "auto" activated abilities should work with autohand, so this is not only for cycling, but could be used for other abilities as well. For example autohand={3}:cycling can also be written autohand={3}{S}:Draw:1
- Adding equipments. They work like auras, except you have to add an "auto={cost}:equip" line. See Behemoth sledge in ARB for an example. Please test a lot before committing, thanks :)