Chronicle of Changes.
Resolved2 entries
- Cards that make themselves cheaper are no longer mistaken for ramp. "This spell costs {7} less to cast" is a discount on one spell, not acceleration — but the tagger counted it as ramp all the same, so counterspells and board wipes were filed as ramp and quietly padded a deck's ramp count. 326 cards across the card pool were affected. Reported by SaintWacko, whose Not of This World — a counterspell — was being called expensive ramp. Tags already saved against your cards were written by the old reading and are being corrected in a follow-up pass, so a card you have tagged may take a little longer to catch up.
- Counterspells that name what they counter are recognized again. "Counter target creature spell", "Counter target noncreature spell", "Counter target activated or triggered ability" — the tagger expected the word it was looking for to come immediately after "target", so every counterspell with a qualifier in between matched nothing and came back with no role at all. 27 cards in the collection get their role back.
Two unrelated repairs, filed apart and shipped together because they were found on the same afternoon. The first was reported: a player looked at a counterspell labelled expensive ramp and said, plainly, that it was not ramp. He was right, and the fault ran wider than his card — anything that discounted itself was being read as though it accelerated something. The second was never reported by anyone, because its symptom was an absence: a counterspell with a qualifier in its text simply came back with no role at all, and a card that says nothing about itself attracts no complaints. It was found only because the first bug sent someone reading the same few lines. They share a neighbourhood in the code and nothing else, and we have left them as two.