Smuggler's Copter

shteev
shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
in MtGPQ Bugs & Technical Issues
If Smuggler's Copter attacks and you have no cards in hand, you obviously cannot discard a card, but you do not draw a card.

Now you may SAY this is by design, except that Tormenting Voice and Magmatic Insight have the same wording, and they do allow you to draw even if you discard.

If it's genuinely your intention that Smuggler's Copter should work differently from those cards, then the wording in the card should be different. Paper MTG uses the following template:

Better game designers at WOTC said:

"Discard a card. If you do, draw a card."

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