Thing in the Ice flips on lethal damage like WTF. I did 11 damage to it via berserker and it flipped before dying. STUPID
Based on the card’s text, I’m not convinced this is a bug.
However, the freeze caused by this card is most certainly a bug.
I agree that it’s probably not technically a bug BUT it is an issue and doesn’t work as intended. It should be coded that if Thing in the Ice has 6 or less Toughness and greater than 0 toughness it transforms. It shouldn’t die from damage and then transform and clear your board.
Even better, I bounced it with displacement wave and it attempted to destroy it, but instead it flipped and the game froze.
I also had a freeze with Crush of Tentacles flipping it. Pretty annoying.
In MtG it wouldn’t flip, because flipping would be a triggered ability and happen after it died (and therefore not happen at all). I know it’s not the same game but it really helps everyone when the analogies work.
I’m neutral on it flipping when it actually takes lethal damage, but flipping from a destroy effect (or a bounce effect) is just stupid. Actually the whole thing where cards are shown taking damage when they’re directly destroyed is stupid. There’s no reason for it to work that way and it doesn’t make any sense that it does either.
But all of that is basically irrelevant compared to the game freezing.
It helps the game developers to have all of the information on bugs in one place.
There is a sub forum for bugs!
There is actually a post about this already on the bug forum