Secluded Courtyard Creature Type Missing
The Shrine creature type is not an option when playing the land Secluded Courtyard. This inhibits decks with Shrine creatures in them.
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NPC#65025 commented
In Quickdraft on Arena, it is even worse than losing a game here and there. If you don't know this problem going in, it kills the deck you built for all games. And you only find out while playing. It's not a bug but it's an execution fail that kills your mana for the multicolor shrine deck -- after you drafted it.
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TorontoBuckwheat#35020 commented
I appreciate that there's already discussion about this - I've effectively given up on a few decks because of this issue.
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Tills#48737 commented
@Moocow17 @WotC
This does appear to be a design failure, as 205.3h includes Shrine as an enchantment type, however these appear to be the ONLY enchantment creatures that do not have a creature subtype.
Indeed, I believe these are the only creatures without a type in standard. (Nameless Race all the way back in 'The Dark' and facedown Morph creatures being the only other exceptions I can think of).
March of the Machines and Starfield of Nyx could also cause this effect, although they would not cause this specific issue.
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Reconfigure creatures DO appear to all also have a creature type in addition to the 'Equipment' artifact type. -
moocow17#38251 commented
For anyone who is having this 'issue' (as I just had yesterday with the Reconfigure creatures), I found in the rules that it technically isn't a bug. I personally think it's bad game design, but it's not a bug. The rules actually specify which subtypes are creature types and which are artifact types (or other types).
The governing clause for this is 205.3c:
205.3c If a card with multiple card types has one or more subtypes, each subtype is correlated to its appropriate card type.
Example: Dryad Arbor’s type line says “Land Creature — Forest Dryad.” Forest is a land type, and Dryad is a creature type.
It goes on to explicitly list the subtypes of each card type. Equipment is listed as a subtype of Artifact in 205.3g, but not as a subtype of Creature in 205.3m:
205.3g Artifacts have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called artifact types. The artifact types are Blood, Clue, Contraption, Equipment (see rule 301.5), Food, Fortification (see rule 301.6), Gold, Powerstone, Treasure, and Vehicle (see rule 301.7).
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205.3m Creatures and tribals share their lists of subtypes; these subtypes are called creature types. The creature types are Advisor, Aetherborn, Ally, Angel, Antelope, Ape, Archer, Archon, Army, Artificer, Assassin, Assembly-Worker, Atog, Aurochs, Avatar, Azra, Badger, Barbarian, Bard, Basilisk, Bat, Bear, Beast, Beeble, Beholder, Berserker, Bird, Blinkmoth, Boar, Bringer, Brushwagg, Camarid, Camel, Caribou, Carrier, Cat, Centaur, Cephalid, Chimera, Citizen, Cleric, Cockatrice, Construct, Coward, Crab, Crocodile, Cyclops, Dauthi, Demigod, Demon, Deserter, Devil, Dinosaur, Djinn, Dog, Dragon, Drake, Dreadnought, Drone, Druid, Dryad, Dwarf, Efreet, Egg, Elder, Eldrazi, Elemental, Elephant, Elf, Elk, Eye, Faerie, Ferret, Fish... -
Bowchickawow#31730 commented
I was playing in a Quick draft kamigawa neon dynasty. There was a mistake with secluded courtyard. It would not allow me to name Shrine as the creature type.
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[Deleted User] commented
Shrine is an enchantment type, just like the Reconfigure creatures don't have Equipment as a creature type
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joeyburnout#96566 commented
so why cant i choose shrine as a creature type for the land secluded courtyard? seems like they included the land in this set to enable 5 color shrines as a draft archetype but once again arena drops the ball
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spacefiend#31021 commented
I just lost a game because of this.
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PiscesAphrodite#70377 commented
I almost lost a game because of it, please fix it asap!
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FuzzyThantos#51106 commented
This is a major issue, as I splashed for shrines counting on Courtyard for mana.
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hwattever#38448 commented
I lost a freaking mtg arena game because of this. They have the audacity to charge $25 for entry to a broken game!
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qwerty59#36876 commented
Had this problem in game 2 of my current draft. Nearly lost the game as the shrines are my only splash but I'm only running 2-3 off-color sources.
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Nordos#09352 commented
indeed, I drafted a deck with multiple off-color shrines and wanted to fix with courtyard for them, but was unable to.