Fatal Fissure needs manual targeting to earthbend

[matoro]

Unfortunately, WhenTargetDiesDelayedTriggeredAbility does not support any effects which require a separate target independent of the triggering target. So in order to choose a separate target at trigger time, we have to do it manually in a custom effect.

The only other card I could find with a similar effect is [[Reincarnation]], so this is mostly copied from it.

Fixes #14765

[ssk97]

Wouldn't it be better to add support for targeting? I haven't looked closely, but I'd suspect that WhenTargetDiesDelayedTriggeredAbility is lacking the game.fireReflexiveTriggeredAbility.

[matoro]

Wouldn't it be better to add support for targeting? I haven't looked closely, but I'd suspect that WhenTargetDiesDelayedTriggeredAbility is lacking the game.fireReflexiveTriggeredAbility.

If I'm understanding, that would be simply moving this code from the card into the ability, which I have been not been doing unless there are 2 or more cards that support the use case. Would you prefer that?

[ssk97]

First of all, closer review suggests to me that your code is wrong. You have target selection happening as the trigger resolves, it needs to happen when the trigger is placed on the stack.

If I'm understanding, that would be simply moving this code from the card into the ability, which I have been not been doing unless there are 2 or more cards that support the use case. Would you prefer that?

It'd be more complex than that. It needs to be made generic, similar to DoWhenCostPaid.

[matoro]

First of all, closer review suggests to me that your code is wrong. You have target selection happening as the trigger resolves, it needs to happen when the trigger is placed on the stack.

If I'm understanding, that would be simply moving this code from the card into the ability, which I have been not been doing unless there are 2 or more cards that support the use case. Would you prefer that?

It'd be more complex than that. It needs to be made generic, similar to DoWhenCostPaid.

I've been trying to follow how this would work for quite a while now but I'm not sure what you're getting at. DoWhenCostPaid is an effect while a ReflexiveTriggeredAbility is an ability, and WhenTargetDiesDelayedTriggeredAbility takes an effect. Could you clarify a bit more about what kind of call chain you are talking about?