order cards are played?

[legomensa]

is there a reference about the order in which cards are played?
for example: i am playing a mono-darkness deck right now. it looks like pest always go first, then other creatures, then weapon. what is the order for creatures, etc.

[iancudorinmarian]

Pest doesn't always go first. If you hover over a creature, you can see a number in the middle. That is the slot in which the creature is. Slot 1 attacks first, then slot 2 and so on. Creatures are placed on the first open slot available, so if you play 2 creatures (they occupy slots 1 and 2), then your opponent kills the one in slot 1, then the next creature you play goes to slot 3.

Weapons attack after all other permanents have proc'd.

Hope this clears things up for you.

[dragtom]

This is always situational.

As a very general rule of thumb, expensive cards are played before cheaper cards / high-attack creatures are played before low-attack creatures.
EDIT: This isn't a very good rule, read the next page
Other things that make them be played earlier:

• necessary defense
• quanta generation
• deck strategy-required cards
• growing creatures/permanents

[Fippe94]

If you hover over a creature, you can see a number in the middle. That is the slot in which the creature is.

O_O I have never noticed this before.

[majofa]

Interesting thread if you want to know more about this kind of stuff:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/general-discussion/game-coding-qa/

I'm not sure that he answered your specific question though.

(Also there's a picture floating around somewhere on the forum that shows the creature/permanent order for the end of your turn. I know for sure that weapon isn't last; it's right before mark. Near the end, but not last.)

[legomensa]

this was helpful.
thanks!

[Basman-1453]

(Also there's a picture floating around somewhere on the forum that shows the creature/permanent order for the end of your turn. I know for sure that weapon isn't last; it's right before mark. Near the end, but not last.)

Not the last, true ... provided there are permanents on the second line working its end-of-turn magic (stacks of Shards of Gratitude/Void, Sanctuaries, Flooding, what have ya).

I worded it that way because the weapon slot works its magic (read: its damage and all the effect that occurs) the last among the first line (that is, the upper line) of permanents. The weapon slot is slot ten. (Marks, for the reference, is slot five.)

[ElementalDearWatson]

Pest doesn't always go first. If you hover over a creature, you can see a number in the middle. That is the slot in which the creature is. Slot 1 attacks first, then slot 2 and so on. Creatures are placed on the first open slot available, so if you play 2 creatures (they occupy slots 1 and 2), then your opponent kills the one in slot 1, then the next creature you play goes to slot 3.

I think you mean slot 1.  If slot 1 is empty (as it would be, if the creature in it had been killed - assuming it didn't become a Skeleton or a Malignant Cell), then the next creature played will go in slot 1.

[dragtom]

(Also there's a picture floating around somewhere on the forum that shows the creature/permanent order for the end of your turn. I know for sure that weapon isn't last; it's right before mark. Near the end, but not last.)

Spoiler for Hidden:

Also, the question was 'the order cards are played'.
Not 'the order cards trigger at the end of turn'...

[Higurashi]

This has been an eternal question in card games, and it was satisfactorily answered by the beatdown theory in MtG. It has much more to do with figuring out what your opponent's deck is than your own. After all, you should already know your deck. That's not the tricky part. Here's a short Elements version by a member: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-articles/who-is-the-beatdown-%28article%29

[Acsabi44]

wow, ppl still link me after all this time, I'm flattered   
btw it seems like we are talking about 2 different things in this topic. I think OP meant the board order thing but I agree, card order decisions are more interesting  8)


BTW, since we are talking about mono dark decks, here's an interesting one. Consider the following generic monodark deck:

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5ur 5ur 5uu 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pt

(inf you dont like this version then think about your favorite basic monodark.)
Is this deck generally the control or the beatdown? This is a pretty interesting question actually, since its not obvious at first glance IMO and since knowing your position is vital if you wanna fight this deck. Think it generally wants to rush, but you fight it like you fight a control deck: By applying early pressure until the board is inevitably locked down. Generally I think this deck is the beat down, but this topic merits a whole new article in itself.

[Monox D. I-Fly]

As a very general rule of thumb, expensive cards are played before cheaper cards / high-attack creatures are played before low-attack creatures.

Huh? I've been doing vice-versa the whole time. I play as many cheaper cards as I can, so that I can get my creatures early. After all, the cheapest creatures in my deck are those octopi.