The restrictions on Arcane Intellect sound to easy to code so I don’t see why they would not bother.
Just give it a set number and if it’s above that don’t cast it.
Again though even if we did know that number you still can’t predict the card because 5 Spells are an always possible choice.
I highly doubt it can cause you to burn cards through draw. Draw into fatigue? Sure.
That’s a more possible overlook.
Could be fixed but even if it didn’t it wouldn’t change much.
1 in 100 type of situation. Maybe even 1 in 1000.
I know it can also polymorph your own minions if the large minion that put poly in the pool is stealthed and there’s no other valid enemy targets.
True but that just means it doesn’t consider the targetability of a minion before choosing it.
Another overlook but again, how many Stealth or Elusive minions is one facing for it to matter.
That sounds like a bug. Good intentions, but bad coding xD The algorythm doesn’t take into account the existence of stealth or elusive keywords!
There is even a potential bug here.
What if it chooses Polymorph and not only your opponent’s minions are Elusive but yours also. Would it just crash.
This is all speculation to me and i dont share your faith in the development team.
They could easily dispel all doubt and open their hand on those so called requisites or triggers whatever you want to call them, but they wont because its all covered in a frosting layer of rng.
Their silence is not to encourage the player base to go on a treasure hunt for those…
Its merely a byproduct of incompetence or apathy.
Team 5 is terrified players will actually play mage, so they give the class trash like this card.
Where if you are a top legend player, then this card can be great.
If not, you just lost.
Seriously? This design team can’t so anything better than that with the class?
good question.
it’s definitely not a bug from coding perspective, only from ours. From coding perspective, they forgot to account for stealth and elusive keywords.
If they didn’t, khadgar would never pick Poly in that scenario
It’s a coding error/design issue
This entire conversation is making me want to craft Puzzlemaster just to see what he does
Good luck. I lost every game I played with it.
I don’t consider it not thinking about stealth to be an error. He’s not supposed to be perfectly smart.
But in any case, here’s the triggers for it per spell:
Known:
Arcane Missiles: 1 health enemy minion on board
Likely:
Polymorph: large enough enemy minion on board (don’t know how large it needs to be)
Arcane intellect: under X cards in hand
Flamestrike: more than X minions on board
Blizzard more than X minions on board with more than 5 HP?
Theories:
Frost armor: under X health?
Mirror images: under X minions on board?
No idea:
Fireball/Frostbolt
Those are still just PROBABLY options even if the conditions are met it doesn’t make them auto-plays which 100% discounts the conditional programming.
It’s machine algo. And they have to make it better ASAP, it’s obviously not working properly in some scenarios unaccounted for by the designers.
You just described the last 5 years of programming decisions by this team.
I can tell you that these are always possible because why wouldn’t they.
Your opponent has minions cool. You may hit one of them or their face.
Your opponent doesn’t have minions cool. Go face.
Since it doesn’t count numbers on board or opponent’s it doesn’t have requirements for these.
Always possible. I have had Frost Armor casted at 30 Health.
It’s possible that Mirror Image requires at least an enemy minion in play but I can’t remember exact.
Maybe I should face the Innkeeper and solve it.
So there is no reliable way to tutor what you get.
In other words; the card isn’t half as good as Team5 claimed, which means that Orion was spot on in his critique.
This makes the card better.
Means your opponent can’t play around the Spells.
We know it’s conditional programming. Blizz told us this part.
They may require some board presence. There are likely at least a few spells with very easy to meet conditions (fireball/frostbolt may always be active) to make it a bit less predictable.
They might have said it, but I’ve had 8 years of education in programming, and I know for a fact that it is not 