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Some time ago, I tried to recreate a few basic Powershell commands as MTG cards.[0] Try/Catch [1] is one of my favorites - it's designed to "pre-counter" counte

Some time ago, I tried to recreate a few basic Powershell commands as MTG cards.[0] Try/Catch [1] is one of my favorites - it's designed to "pre-counter" counterspells. [0] https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v [1] Reveal 2 cards from your hand. Choose 1 and pay its casting cost, then cast it as normal. If it fails to resolve, reset the game state to before the card was cast, then cast the second card as normal. https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png

kace91 8y ago
>reset the game state to before the card was cast, then cast the second card as normal. https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png wouldn't that make the card useless? play cardA -> get countered ->state reset -> play card B -> B gets countered (because your opponent recovers the counter and untapped cards, due to the reset).
- Qworg 8y ago
  State reset isn't the right term. You want something like "Reveal two cards from your hand. Pay the casting cost for one. If it successfully resolves, exile the second card. If it does not, put the second card into play as if it were cast."
  - ggggtez 8y ago
    As it turns out, that also doesn't work because you can't just put something into play or it would skip some triggers and activate others it wouldn't normally. So the code is statefully different if it's in the "catch" instead of the "try"
ggggtez 8y ago
You'd probably want for a try catch: Try catch (0) Instant Split Second Exile a card from your hand. You may cast a card from your hand with CMC greater than or equal to the exiled card as though it had flash. That spell gains "if this spell is countered, you may play the exiled card without paying it's cost". ... Of course, it's not perfect but it's closer. Doing things like "reset the game state" are not defined in the rules very well, especially since the state wouldn't be the same (there are ways to make it illegal to undo). So that would just be a mess.
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Fnoord 8y ago
Just add a new ability "uncounterable".

kace91 8y ago

>reset the game state to before the card was cast, then cast the second card as normal. https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png https://i.imgur.com/E2cbdEo.png wouldn't that make the card useless? play cardA -> get countered ->state reset -> play card B -> B gets countered (because your opponent recovers the counter and untapped cards, due to the reset).

Qworg 8y ago
State reset isn't the right term. You want something like "Reveal two cards from your hand. Pay the casting cost for one. If it successfully resolves, exile the second card. If it does not, put the second card into play as if it were cast."
- ggggtez 8y ago
  As it turns out, that also doesn't work because you can't just put something into play or it would skip some triggers and activate others it wouldn't normally. So the code is statefully different if it's in the "catch" instead of the "try"

ggggtez 8y ago

You'd probably want for a try catch: Try catch (0) Instant Split Second Exile a card from your hand. You may cast a card from your hand with CMC greater than or equal to the exiled card as though it had flash. That spell gains "if this spell is countered, you may play the exiled card without paying it's cost". ... Of course, it's not perfect but it's closer. Doing things like "reset the game state" are not defined in the rules very well, especially since the state wouldn't be the same (there are ways to make it illegal to undo). So that would just be a mess.

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Fnoord 8y ago

Just add a new ability "uncounterable".