The current HOD event is very anoying beause of the bugs we have to deal with.
Mainly the fact that hixus will disable all my creature after attack leads to match loss
when they are reinforced because
on destruction or return to hand of hixus the creatures stay disabled
trying to replace a reinfroced creature with a new one leads to a softlock
As a result you loose the game for sure when your opponent plays hixus.
As i did. No chance for a perfect score anymore after this. A good position neither.
And lots of decks are using hixus.
I love this game, but not the bugs.
I am a software engineer: can I help to fix those bugs?
Hixus reads, that the creatures disabled will be enabled when the support is destroyed. Returning hixus to the owners hand or exiling it does not trigger the on destroy clause - did you use an effect like terefis ult or a spell that exiles supports to get rid of it? In both cases, it’d be behavior as designed.. If you actually destroyed hixus with a support destruction spell or swapped it away, then ignore anything I wrote.
If that’s the way it should work by design then is something terribly wrong with the design.
Permanents should only have effect when in play, or if card text explicit say so so.
Thos one is a newer problem and definitely a bug. If not then the whole game will be broken soon with everlasting disable and preventing effects.
Hell, a loy of player would put this cards in decks just to troll other player.
You are very correct. That is why in paper all of these types of effects read “until [CARDNAME] leaves the battlefield”. Unfortunately cards in PQ are programmed differently, for some reason (see: Lich’s Mastery)
I will give the old devs a slight pass on Hixus, though, since when they designed him there was no way to exile or bounce a support, so there was no need to worry about it (although they obviously should have put in the extra work anyway, but that was a recurring theme with Hibernium)