I can forgive a lot of the mistakes they made here; we’re all only human and I’m not going to pretend I’ve never shipped code with a bug that I really ought to have caught. They probably should never change any text without playtesting (unless it’s to make a card strictly worse, and even then you need to be pretty sure about the “strictly”), but I’ll bet they’ve gotten away with that a lot more than we realize.
But I think the cardinal sin here, and the mistake I can’t really understand, is that they changed an ability and “how does this interact with zero-mana spells or abilities” wasn’t in their top three considerations. Like, Cephalid Breakfast is over 20 years old. That type of interaction is not new or obscure; you can’t not have it on your radar.
Exactly, the fact that “interacts with 0-mana abilities” isn’t on a list of mandatory checks is just crazy to me. It just signals that they don’t have any kind of process/infrastructure in place to help them see these things.
I can forgive a lot of the mistakes they made here; we’re all only human and I’m not going to pretend I’ve never shipped code with a bug that I really ought to have caught. They probably should never change any text without playtesting (unless it’s to make a card strictly worse, and even then you need to be pretty sure about the “strictly”), but I’ll bet they’ve gotten away with that a lot more than we realize.
But I think the cardinal sin here, and the mistake I can’t really understand, is that they changed an ability and “how does this interact with zero-mana spells or abilities” wasn’t in their top three considerations. Like, Cephalid Breakfast is over 20 years old. That type of interaction is not new or obscure; you can’t not have it on your radar.
Exactly, the fact that “interacts with 0-mana abilities” isn’t on a list of mandatory checks is just crazy to me. It just signals that they don’t have any kind of process/infrastructure in place to help them see these things.