SOF Arena Glitch

[juan_de_diablo]

I was about to go to bed when I noticed something strange. I only have 2 SOF's, but I have 3 in the arena.

Exhibit A:


Note the time (sorry, gotta scroll over at the bottom), how much money I have, and the number of SOF's I own.

Exhibit B:


Note that the time is a few minutes after A, and that I have 3 SOF's in my arena deck.

Exhibit C:


Again, a few minutes later showing my deck just to make sure I don't have the phantom SOF

Exhibit D:


Lastly, the bazaar to show my coins are the same.

I did all this bc I am realy tired, I have a history of brainfarts, and I am showing that I'm not just making this up. However, it appears to me that I am being allowed a 3rd SOF in the arena that I do not actually own (wish I did). Before this evening, I only had 1 SOF. I am pretty sure I first built my deck originally with the 1 SOF, then won another in the arena. I went back to (shamefully) add this shard to my arena deck and I was surprised to see that I had 1 SOF in the arena deck and 2 I could add. I assumed that I stymed out whilst watching x files and grinding and didn't notice that I had won another. But just before getting off the computer, I happened to notice this.

Is this something people have encountered prior?

[juan_de_diablo]

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,35114.0.html

Looks like this has been encountered before. Hopefully my description can help the powers that be track down the code causing this bug.

[rosutosefi]

You get an additional copy of the first card on your arena deck (aside from oracle card).
Try making an important card you don't have 6 of the first card of the deck, like if you only have 5 SoSacs, make them the first cards, submit, and enjoy your additional SoSac when you modify it.

I believe it was a mistake from changing the number of forced oracle cards. Maybe it was 6 when it was in the designing phase, and Zanz just set it so that it will remove the remaining 29+ cards from your card list when you enter the modify screen. When he changed it to 5, maybe he forgot to set it back so that it will remove the cards after the first 5 cards, not 6. The resulting glitch is that it will not remove the first card, so that's why you get the extra SoFo.

It cannot be abused for duplicating cards though, it will just take your deck from the database THEN subtract the cards that are already in the arena deck. It will not save your cards into the database, so it will not cause problems. Or maybe I'm wrong.