@murgatroid99 oh my gosh. That would explain how Graf Rats can have the wording it has:
> At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you both own and control Graf Rats and a creature named midnight Scavengers, exile them, then meld them into Chittering Host.
That doesn't sound compatible with turning them into, say, a creature + an enchantment each.
And they both say they're 5/6 on the reverse side.
So if they have half of Chittering Host each, and meld into one giant card, that'd make a lot of sense right now.
Hi everyone. I've got a question that isn't really suitable for the site itself as it's rather subjective, but I was wondering - does anyone know a good way to introduce new players to Diplomacy? There will be five of us playing, none of whom have played it before, and I'd hate for any of us to be put off by the complex rules.
I've read the rules, played a short two-player game and watched a couple of videos, so I think I understand it as well as a beginner can at this point. But I don't want everyone playing to have to do that too.
Also, is there a recommended way of deciding who plays as which nation? The rules say "draw lots" but I was hoping there might be something a little more sophisticated.
@doppelgreener In case you were thinking about going to meta with it, I want to say that I like your solution better than giving brand new (sub 102 rep) users the ability to create new tags.
@Rainbolt oh yeah i don't think we'll ever see that happen
i was just thinkin' about whether, say, board-game-tag-needed would work. something people would actually type out when they're thinking "well what tag do I use?". depends on the idea they'd actually try typing "board game" though.
In Mark Rosewater's blog a little while ago, he said that he finally made a mechanic work that he's been trying for a long time. It looks like Meld was that mechanic, going back to B.F.M. and S.N.O.T from Unglued and Unhinged
@murgatroid99 I thought he was talking about something from Kaladesh, reading Rosewater's article from today it sounds like Meld is something Ken Nagle has been trying to use for a while though.
@doppelgreener No special case logic. I want to display the card whenever possible (e.g., no search result page when using Black Lotus) and handle as many different cases as possible.
@murgatroid99 These are weird. Somehow Wizard's website doesn't like searching for Alive or Well. The challenge is to get those working without breaking Black Lotus. Will see if there's another magic incantation needed to make those work.
@MichaelStum I'm curious why you're both splitting the card names with apostrophes into separate words and removing the "'s". As far as I can tell, if you put the "'s" back into each link in the appropriate place, it still works.
@MichaelStum What I mean is that currently you're searching for +[Sphinx]+[Revelation]. But it would also work if you search for +[Sphinx's]+[Revelation]
Indeed. I think I didn't have the "Split and put into individual brackets" logic in place yet. Because +[Black]+[Lotus] wouldn't work. If it works though I'll leave it as-is, unless there are cases where it doesn't open the card it should
@MichaelStum The only case where it wouldn't work is if there were a card named "Foo Bar" and another card named "Foo's Bar". That isn't the case as far as I'm aware, so you're probably fine.
@MichaelStum From your examples, it looks like you "split and put into individual brackets" only when there is an apostrophe (and/or an ampersand). All I'm saying is that in that case, you don't need to do anything to the apostrophe or characters after it.
I think I just got banned from magiccards.info. I wanted to check something, so I was quickly clicking through pages, and now it's refusing my connections
I also don't know if it got skipped somehow but I sent a message a day or two ago with a different search URL that seems to be handling the various special cases here just fine if you give it the names verbatim:
Right, it is. And it's the one used by SOUP and it's the reason SOUP works with virtually all the cards, including ones with funny accents.
The way to approach split cards with that one is to do `[mtg:Alive]` // `[mtg:Well]` -> Alive // Well, or just link one or the other if one particular side's important (Alive).
It won't work for linking directly to the whole name. :(
Well, nothing else seems to work better for linking to a split card, so I guess that would be fine
@MichaelStum You should take a look at this. The format doppelgreener posted above seems to work for just about all variants, without special casing or modification