Playtesting Issue
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Posted on Sept. 27, 2015, 7:33 p.m. by Dalektable
I found a kind of odd play testing error with one of my decks. It's not a huge issue, but I'm just throwing it out there. In my deck list I'll post below, when I go to play test it four copies of cards don't appear in the deck so the play tester starts the deck with only 56 cards. The cards that are missing are Planar Outburst and Narset Transcendent. I have my copies of these cards separated in the deck list to show the foil and non-foil copies I own. Don't know how this can be fixed or why it is an issue, but there ya go.
Awaken the Mind... | UW Control Playtest
Standard*
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vampirelazarus says... #3
The issue is that the cards aren't even being added into the deck to begin with, in the playtester. After drawing the initial seven, there's only 49 cards left in the deck. Which is a much bigger issue than it seems.
September 27, 2015 9:13 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #4
errrr...... its actually only adding the one foil of each, and ignoring the rest of the card counts.
(im dumb :3)
September 27, 2015 9:15 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #5
Yeah, the playtester overrides each instance of a listing for each duplicate of that listing that appears. Hence why only one foil shows up because it is the second listing.
Femme_Fatale says... #2
If you list a card multiple times, the playtester only counts for one of those listings, not the others. This also applies to different printings, languages and alters. From what I can gather, the playtester counts cards differently than the deck-list, presumably to speed the loading up faster. It acts sort of like a check-list, it goes through the deck list and assigns the appropriate amount of cards dictated on the list into the playtester. Basically, assigning multiple variations of a card will have the first listing get overridden by the second listing and then the third etc, if they are there.
What the playtester does would be the equivalent of the deck-list saying "you cannot put in multiple listings of 'X' card", or the deck-list completely erasing the first listings in lieu of whichever one comes last.
Hard to explain that into words ...
September 27, 2015 7:45 p.m.