Reach, Defender, Vigilance ordering

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QuiksilverHg
QuiksilverHg Posts: 126 Tile Toppler
in MtGPQ General Discussion
Just wonder if anyone has figured out the logic for this.

I’m using the Mantle of Webs a lot to help me on defense.  When I cast it though the game seems to arbitrarily reorder the creatures and I can’t figure out the reasoning.

Sometimes the highest power creature with reach gets ordered first, sometimes the highest toughness, sometimes whoever got reach first stays first.  Those are the only logical orders I can think of for how the game would order the creatures... does anyone know what the games actual priorities are?

Thanks

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  • Sarahschmara
    Sarahschmara Posts: 554 Critical Contributor
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    Defender, then reach, then vigilance. Disabling messes things up a bit. 
  • James13
    James13 Posts: 665 Critical Contributor
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    When disabled, things will revert to cast order (oldest first) due to the ability being inactive.  Similar for the same ability suffix where oldest goes first.  One turn disables can keep things shuffled until something else forces an ordering reconsideration.
  • QuiksilverHg
    QuiksilverHg Posts: 126 Tile Toppler
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    Yeah, I knew defender then reach then vigilance, I suppose I should have been more specific.

    What happens with multiple creatures within a type?

    Say I have 3 reach creatures, or say I have 3 Defender creatures... how does the game figure out which one goes first?
  • Sarahschmara
    Sarahschmara Posts: 554 Critical Contributor
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    Oh. Summon order, I think. Disable messes it up a bit. 
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    edited November 2017
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    when creatures have the same defender priority,
    then the order of 1st-last creature is in the order that
    they came on the battlefield. disabled creatures lose
    their defender priority. reshuffling of the creature order
    only occurs when something like a new creature
    enters the battlefield(a reshuffle has to be triggered to
    happen). as such you can have the wrong order of
    creatures if a reshuffle has yet to occur.

    HH
  • QuiksilverHg
    QuiksilverHg Posts: 126 Tile Toppler
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    Ok, that doesn’t seem the most logical to me if I was programming, but at least now I’ll know what is going to happen next time I cast mantle of Webs.  Thank-you

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