Gift Giving Cards Don't Warn Against Targeting a Player
Usually, MTG Arena gives they player a warning whenever they attempt to target an opponent with an effect that would typically be beneficial for them. This is standard practice for cards such as combat tricks. However, there are a number of cards from the set Bloomburrow, which target a player to draw cards, and do not give this warning. These cards are especially misleading, because they also showcase the Gift mechanic. The gift mechanic asks you to give an opponent of your choice a gift as you cast this spell. Since this ability offers you a choice, you would think when you're given the target interface you need to choose your opponent, since the gift happens before the card's ability. However, this is not the case, and so it's easy to accidentally have your opponent draw cards instead, which really sucks as a play experience. Given that this applies to two commons in the set, it will come up a lot over the course of the set's limited format.
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DAC169#34537 commented
Whenever you cast a card with gift it will bring up a cast selection option of if you want to cast it without or with gifting your opponent. In other words, you are IMMEDIATELY asked if you want to gift a boon to your opponent whenever you cast a spell with gift. It does not ask "are you sure you want to give your opponent a beneficial effect?" because that is the whole point of gifting & because IT ALREADY ASKED.