Transmogrant's Crown and Fervent Champion
If you don't have a black mana source or 2 generic mana sources to tap to pay the "2 or B" equip cost of Transmogrant's Crown, Fervent Champion's ability that reduces equip cost by 3 generic will not be applied to Transmogrant's Crown, making you unable to equip for free.
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Lovd#82058 commented
i can confirm that the bug is still not solved, the game automatically passes priority in this situation, please fix
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kctrojan#10140 commented
I can confirm that the game does not give you priority to act (e.g skips entire post-combat main phase if you're tapped-out) in situations where re-equipping Transmogrant's Crown (via it's own equip ability*) is free.
The same thing applies to other equip-cost-reducing combos with Transmogrant's Crown (Bladegraft Aspirant + Bladehold War-Whip, 2x Bladehold War-Whip, etc).
* This has to be related to the multi-mode equip cost (perhaps because it defaults to B vs 2). If Astor, Bearer of Blades is in play, the game will give priority to the equip the Crown for free via Astor's alternate equip cost, but not it's own. It scans the cost of all possible equip abilities, but not all possible costs of _all possible modes_ of all possible equip abilities.
This game must be so hard to program. Somebody in engineering has to be wondering: why wasn't Transmogrant's Crown templated with 2 different equip abilities (which is somewhat common) instead of being the only equip ability in the game (at least, on Arena, as far as I can tell) with multiple costs? Probably an aesthetic choice: fewer lines of text on the card. Ironically, it might require many additional lines of code to program it's ability into the digital game.
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Shwifty Pete#58154 commented
on a pc i think it might equip ok if you have one generic untapped mana - the problem seems to be that when selecting black or two 2 generic to equip the crown, the crowns options default to one black so not having any untapped mana won't pause the game to give priorty to act - if the crown had defaulted to two generic instead of one black, maybe it would have workied as intended