Fixed Pithing Needle Bug with Grinning Ignus

[magicthethiccening]

Pithing Needle naming Grinning Ignus is preventing the activation of Grinning Ignus. This should not work, as the ability of Grinning Ignus is a mana ability. Pithing Needle states that it does not work on mana abilities.

 

[xXGuttersniper72Xx]

Example of the bug occurring:

The discussion of the bug starts at the original timestamp, and then the bug actually occurs at 2:10:00.

There are many people on Magic Online that are aware of the bug and knowingly exploit it, and it has personally cost me 2 challenge runs and numerous league 5-0s.

 

[xXGuttersniper72Xx]

Relevant rules text clarifying the mana ability nature of Grinning Ignus:

Although Grinning Ignus's ability has a timing restriction, it's still a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and it can't be responded to.

From

https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136040

 

[Danny_Bambino]

Bumping, this happened to me two leagues in a row and I presume will keep happening until it's fixed.

 

[n3onlights]

This should be addressed. I know it's hard to actually make it a mana ability, but why can't MTGO label these abilities with a separate Bool as mana abilities, then prevent cards like Pithing Needle from stopping them if that flag is True? This is making a competitively viable deck much worse on MTGO than in paper.

 

[SenpaiBlank]

I was playing this a game am my opponent was playing Pithing needle and i wan'ted to activate my card in response. However i was not able to tab my Lands for mana.
I was streaming my match and so this can be seen in this Vod;

at the Timestamp 57:30. Im not quite sure what happend here to be honest.

 

[ManaDrainThis]

This is probably related to the Pithing Needle bug reported here: https://forums.mtgo.com/index.php?threads/pithing-needle-bug.177/