Lifelink should not be separated from damage. If I kill the opponent with 20 damage with lifelink I should get the 20 life BEFORE the games ends.
If I trample thru a creature to kill the opponent the dead creature should count towards my kills BEFORE the game ends.
Razio, Boros Archangel. If I trample thru her she is DEAD. Stop assigning me damage for that attack and any others that turn. Have lost games due to the 27 damage I should never have taken.
@DragonSorcerer - totally agree that these points are extremely annoying. I wonder if you have considered the effect of ensuring the above?
As of now, it seems (through experience) that the code for dealing damage will, immediately after dealing damage, check for life point less than 1. If so the end match code is initiated.
Let us assume that there is only one creature(with no other effect than lifelink) and no support on the board. Your request is easily accomplished by just performing the lifelink effect.
Now let us assume, that the board is filled with 6 creatures and each player has 3 supports on the table. Now either everything must be executed or else a elaborate priority has to be maintained in order for “legal” effects to be executed. This will open an enormous can of worms with so many unforeseen problems, that it is better to just let be.
2 is basically the same situation.
3 is a variant that leads to effects disappearing during your turn. This solution could be just a damaging to you as the current situation. Therefore my recommendation is to accept this limitation and learn to work around it, because there has been no indication that this will be fixed anytime soon.
Given the limited amount of developers on this app, I wouldn’t get my hopes up that this will be fixed before a complete refactoring of the underlying game engine. So I think that you will have to wait a very long time before your request is granted by the MTGPQ Genie.
How do I “work around” someone else playng Razia !
For 3) if a creature dies, set it’s power to 0 and then Razia would do 0 damage. Seems a simple change to me (programmer for 36 years).
As for 1) an 2), the first thing to do after the end of match would be to honor lifelink and creature death counters (without triggering anything), again not beyond simple programming.
3 ? Not a clue what this sentence means. Why would anything be based on a dead creature ?
1 and 2 I said NO triggers, simply update life and dead creature counter.
I’ve learned to stop wishing for changes in the game, and to accept that the best decision is to use the bugs to your advantage until the time comes that maybe they get fixed. It’s not worth the mental energy to hope for this game to ever be “right”.
Resplendent Angel used to be one of these creatures if you paired it with if On Serra’s Wings. It could take lethal damage, gain life from dealing damage to the other creature, get reinforced from it’s ability, and be available to block the next creature.