Tend the Pests + Dack Fayden (vanguard) interaction [Investigating]

Magic: The Gathering - Puzzle Quest MtGPQ Bugs & Technical Issues
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Tend the Pests is a spell that makes you sacrifice a creature you control in order to create X amount of pests where X is equal to that creature’s power.
Since it is a spell it triggers Dack Fayden’s Magecraft ability that lets you take control of an opposing creature until end of turn.

However, if there are no opposing creatures to take control (which causes Dack’s Magecraft prompt to never trigger) Tend the Pests doesn’t creates any pest tokens after you sacrifice your creature. As seen on this video:

If the opponent has creatures for you to take control but you chose not to do it, once again Tend the Pests will not create any pest tokens after you sacrifice your creature. As seen on this other video:

You need to wait until your opponent has creatures in play and chose to steal them when Dack’s Magecraft ability trigger in order for Tend the Pests to create any pest tokens after you sacrifice your creature. As seen on this last video:

All those videos were recorded during the same game so nothing changed besides what I decided to do with when Dack’s prompt triggered

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I think I’ve heard it behaves similarly to the LPS, where once you say ‘no/stop’ no other effects happen from that point. Also similar to this issue I believe, and they were apparently never able to reproduce it (surprise). https://forums.505go.com/discussion/85777/inscription-of-abundance-stops-working-cant-reproduce

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I hope that explanation you gave could help the devs on solving the issue because that means that Dack instead of making your spells deck better makes them worse

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Pretty sure I just ran into this in another way also. Playing a Skoti match, made my gem match and Halvar’s bravery popup came up and I believe I hit not now, then the cascade continued which fell into a 5match and I never got the extra swap.

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Hello guys,

Thank you for all the information provided, this issue will be investigated!
If you have any additional information that you consider relevant, please don’t hesitate to send me :blush:

Rebeca.