Bizarre behavior for Subterranean Schooner crew ability
In a game this evening for the first time I encountered strange stack behavior related to Subterranean Schooner’s crew ability. I tried to crew it with my Kitesail Larcenist on the battlefield that correctly had the “summoning sick” graphic - it had just entered this turn. It was a valid choice for paying the cost of the Crew 1 ability, though. First I noticed it was strange that the creature was not tapped, but Arena behaved as though the ability had been put on the stack. Then it started to have me rope even though I had no game actions to take that would involve passing priority. The game had trouble connecting with the server. I checked but did not observe my device disconnecting from the network. Then, other stack spells and abilities appeared over my crew ability, which didn’t leave the stack for multiple turns.
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That's not behavior for Subterranean Schooner, that's behavior for losing connection to the server. And Arena is TERRIBLE at trying to reconnect to the servers if it loses connection. Honestly the best thing to do if you lose connection is to immediately close the game and reopen it.