AI5 stole all my Permaments in one Turn! [unconfirmed]

[Kakerlake]

Well, this is my first time submitting a bug report without knowing how it actually happened o.O
So I'll try to add all seemingly important stuff.

I was grinding AI5 with my deck: "Fun with Mindages"

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5c3 5up 5up 5up 5up 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 623 623 623 623 623 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 749 7dl 7gp 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 80d 80d 80d 80d 80e 80e 80e 80jMy AI opponent was Ariow ( / )

My early Mindgate was stolen and so he copied most of my stuff. After a while, both our permament fields were filled and he had 3 mindgates. Then he copied 3 times my next steal killing 3 mindgates (had 2 left) and I stole one back (leaving him with 2).
The next turn, he used mindgate again, and then stole my whole field (~9 permaments + a couple of pillars... I don't know how many), leaving me only with the pillars (my next card was a pillar though). Sadly, I was too much in a "dude, wait, w00t?" - state, so I didn't screenshot it while/before he was stealing all my stuff.

This picture shows the field after the stealing:

I am not sure how to reconstruct this bug, so I'll just leave it be. Haven't encountered something like this before.
Anyway, I won the match but lost EM
I want a compensation for the lost ~40 Electrum!! Gimme 12 of each Mark and I will forget about this insolence! wrargh!!!!

[smuglapse]

This has been reported before: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17460.msg243126#msg243126

The AI can continually use the same Steal card as an infinite reusable Explosion as long as their permanent field is full. This can happen, because apparently the code performs the destruction action before checking if the field is full. Everything else (the Steal card being used up, quanta being used, etc.) is canceled because of the full field, though. TORB was not able to reproduce it for the player's side.

[DrunkDestroyer]

While I have no information whatsoever on the bug, or the causes of it, I will say that 'Fun with Mindgates' was not poorly named. I've been trying a variant (meaning I don't have enough upped cards to come close), and it's been pretty cool. By end game, you get vast amounts of quanta. My favourite game was against the mono-aether, where he had a dry spell of creatures (or ones that I could draw) for far too long. When he finally got one, I TU'd it twice, quinted one, then fractalled it for good meausure.
It sucks that sparks don't go through dim shields, but it was good fun.

[Kakerlake]

[...]I will say that 'Fun with Mindgates' was not poorly named.[...]

The name of the deck is actually "Fun with Mindages" ^^
Originally, the idea was to name it Mindgates as you correctly guessed, but I've miswritten the name accidentally and came to like the name with Mindages, since it takes ages to win battles

I'm glad you liked the deck. It's just perfect when you get tired of rush decks, firestall or whatever deck you use.

@smuglapse,
The funny thing is here that when the bug happened neither of our fields were full.
The AI was missing 1 Permament and I had 2 open slots.
One turn before the bug both fields were filled and the AI stole (destroyed) 3 of my permaments normally as it should be.