Confirmed Grave Scrabbler's ability doesn't trigger when entering after being cast for its madness cost.

Punchilleno

New member
As the title says. This happened in a match as well as when testing on single player. In addition, kitchen imp's madness ability went on the stack but there was no card to click on so it couldn't be cast. Seems like madness + sideboarding is all screwed up right now.

Best,
Punchilleno
 

Torbin

Staff member
Community Team
Tag that needs to be applied: Confirmed
Testing applied: Recreated game state by casting Grave Scrabbler for its Madness cost.
Test Results: Grave Scrabbler's ability would not trigger after being cast for its madness cost.
 

Kwww

Member
Bit of further testing, cards that care about being cast for madness cost now function as if cast for their regular cost. From Underneath the Floorboards when madness cast for x=0 still makes 3 zombies and gains 3 life.
 
Hello,
When you cast grave scrabbler paying its madness cost(1B), you can't choose "you may return target creature card from graveyard to its owner's hand",instead, it enters the battlefield as it is cast by paying its full cost (3B)
 

Torbin

Staff member
Community Team
Hello,
When you cast grave scrabbler paying its madness cost(1B), you can't choose "you may return target creature card from graveyard to its owner's hand",instead, it enters the battlefield as it is cast by paying its full cost (3B)
Please provide a game ID or a screen shot.
 

Firedrake

MTGO Regular
Hello,
When you cast grave scrabbler paying its madness cost(1B), you can't choose "you may return target creature card from graveyard to its owner's hand",instead, it enters the battlefield as it is cast by paying its full cost (3B)
A simple Search on Grave Scrabbler will reveal it is both Confirmed, and on Backlog. Unsure why none of the complainants have Upvoted any of the posts to expedite a fix, though.
 

Jamix012

New member
Hi, problem is in the title. When Grave Scrabbler is played using it's madness cost I should be able to return a creature to owner's hand from Graveyard. This does not seem to trigger though.
 

Torbin

Staff member
Community Team
Hi, problem is in the title. When Grave Scrabbler is played using it's madness cost I should be able to return a creature to owner's hand from Graveyard. This does not seem to trigger though.
Please provide a screen shot or game ID.
 

Jamix012

New member
Hi, game ID was provided at top of original post: Jamix012. Did not think a screenshot appropriate since it would simply be a screenshot of something not happening. Let me know if what you'd like to see and I can take a screen of it

Edit: apologies let me get back on this, I understand the request now.
 

chicco_di_riso

New member
I discarded Grave Scrabbler many times today, through blood tokens and Tortured Existence too. I casted it through madness, but it didn't trigger the etb, even if I had several creatures in the graveyards. I used to play it in mtgo and I never had issue. I guess it is a new bug. Thank you for reading.
 

Punchilleno

New member
The same thing happened to me, super frusterating. Please go to the search bar and type in "grave scrabbler" so that you can go and upvote the other posts that people have made about it, maybe then Daybreak will do something to fix it. Its the button to the right of the text in a post, and I think it helps with visibility.
 

Firedrake

MTGO Regular
Five different people have posted about this Bug in this thread alone (there are others), yet it only has 3 Upvotes? It won't move up the Fix List that way...
 

Kwww

Member
Still broken testing today. Pauper Tortex has it bad enough, please at least fix one of it's key engines so it's at minimum playable.
 

Kwww

Member
Took a break for a few months because my favourite card was bugged. Just popped in to do some testing.

Still broken.
 

Fateseal_MTG

New member
Game ID: 934997750

Link to Video:

Setup: Tortured Existence and three Swamps on the battlefield, Thoughtpicker Witch and Sanitarium Skeleton in the graveyard, Grave Scrabbler in hand. Activate Tortured Existence, target Sanitarium Skeleton, paying {B} and discarding Grave Scrabbler. Madness on Grave Scrabbler triggers, choose to cast it, Grave Scrabbler resolves.

Expected Behavior: Grave Scrabbler's ETB ability triggers, allowing its controller to target Thoughtpicker Witch. Thoughtpicker Witch returns to hand alongside Sanitarium Skeleton.

Observed Behavior: Grave Scrabbler's ETB does not trigger. Only Sanitarium Skeleton returns to hand.



This is a key engine piece in a deck that I plan to feature on stream. I'm not going to be able to showcase this deck until this bug gets fixed.
 
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