Jodah the unifier failing to find a lower cmc legendary in deck resulting in game freezing until match ends in draw.
I'm playing a janky 250 card deck with several one-ofs so it's difficult for me to reproduce, but the sequence of events was as follows:
1. Play Jodah, the Unifier on turn 4 with help of treasures
2. Play Urza, Lord Protector the following turn
3.Jodah triggers, pulling Shigeki, Jukai Visionary.
4. On turn 5 as well, play Karn's Sylex, which costs 2 thanks to Urza, LP.
5. Jodah triggers, attempts to find a cheaper legendary, but fails to find one. (It plays the animation exiling my whole deck, UI pops up showing exiled cards, I hit "Done" and it returns to normal board view)
From this point I see my opponents timer show up, the typical semicircle extending much higher than normal around their avatar. It doesn't move for a while, I assume they're either on mobile and waiting for the animation still or looking through my exiled deck to see everything I'm running.
After what I considered more than enough time for either case, I click to emote "Your Go", since I saw their timer and assumed they thought I had priority, but "Thinking..." was the emote that popped up, indicating it was my go, and contradicting the timer.
After a while, the game popped up a message, which I was too hasty to think to copy, and it said the game ended in a draw.
I have had Jodah trigger many times in this deck, but never seen this before. I do not recall if I ever played a 2cmc legend with him on board prior to this, but expect not, as I do not run any 1 cost legends to try and pull, and only a handful of 2 costs.
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ManaganKirst#37825 commented
To clarify I was playing on PC when this happened.