Serene Steward + Dominaria cards freezes game

Stormcrow
Stormcrow Posts: 462 Mover and Shaker
in MtGPQ Bugs & Technical Issues
Serene Steward drains 1 mana from your hand and gives your first creature +1/+1, whenever you gain life.

It seems like it should combo pretty well with Elfhame Druid (whenever a card you control drains mana from your hand, gain 3 mana) or Hallar the Firefletcher (whenever a card you control drains mana from your hand, Hallar gets +1/+1 and deals 2 damage to opponent).

Testing it out, however, quickly revealed to me that whenever you have Serene Steward and either Elfhame Druid or Hallar in play, and then gain life, the game will permanently stall out and you'll be forced to quit the match.

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  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
      I suppose elfhame and hallar are supposed to trigger with the new manadrain mechanic ( "kick" in the paper version). I'm not sure they were also supposed to work with the older drain effects (some interactions could be quite nasty actually).
       That doesnt explain the bug by itself but it might have something to do with it.
  • DBJones
    DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
    They work fine with Screeching Skaab though. I wonder if they work with HUF or Jace's Sanctum played against you?
  • Stormcrow
    Stormcrow Posts: 462 Mover and Shaker
    DBJones said:
    I wonder if they work with HUF or Jace's Sanctum played against you?
    They do specify that the source of the mana drain has to be a card you control. So they shouldn't work in those cases.
  • gogol666
    gogol666 Posts: 316 Mover and Shaker
    I checked Hallar, with both tetzimoc and rhonas's last stand and when tetzimoc drains the Mana to give an enemy creature -1/-1 the game freezes, while the Mana drain from rhonas's last stand is managed correctly
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
      It looks like it works fine when you get drained by an effect on playing a card. However, it seems to bug when the drain comes from an ability meant to be triggered several times.
      I suppose it wasn't meant to work with abilities so that's fair enough ... Anyway, a solution has to be found in order to avoid the game freeze in this particular case.
  • gogol666
    gogol666 Posts: 316 Mover and Shaker
    I was playing awr 2.1 and the game freeze after Greg cast blink of an eye. Another freeze related to kicker?

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