Had a turn-1 moment today where I cascaded into a match-5 (actually, a match-6) that did not grant an extra swap.
Event: Rising Tensions - Boros Legion Node: Black-Green (bottom) Steps: Matched three gems (white), one of which was the indestructible support assigned to me. Cascade generated a match-6 (blue; circled below, showing that it also generated the mana), but no extra swap was granted.
My Bolas has a -2 white match penalty, so the math works out:
1 mana from the 3-white match (3-2)
9 mana from the 6-blue match (6+3)
2 loyalty from two, separate matches on the cascade
I’ve also seen this issue, but it was with different circumstances:
My hand was full and all cards had full mana, so any mana match actually gave me 0 mana. I matched five naturally - no permanent support, no gem color change, no cascade - and got no extra swap.
I had a separate instance where I matched five loyalty gems and got no extra swap. At that point I had full loyalty as well.
I haven’t been able to pay as much attention to see if there are other factors on when I have/haven’t received the extra swap.
I just had this too. I got a cascade in RT, and part of that cascade was a match5 involving the involving the “House Dimir” support. I did not get an extra swap.
Daiane - my issue was in Rising Tensions. Beyond that I don’t remember exact circumstances other than what I described, and will be on the lookout for any other times this comes up
This time it was the AI losing a swap. The first swap was to match 3 white gems, one of which was the permanent support. The game froze for a moment while that support changed colors, and I could see that the AI had a match-5 in the loyalty gems ready to go.
But then the game resumed matching, hit the match-5, and ended the AI’s turn.
