Resolved Scythe of the Wretched and Unscythe, Killer of Kings trigger on every death

[Skinniercoder71]

Scythe of the Wretched (Mirrodin) and Unscythe, Killer of Kings (Alara reborn) trigger on every death not just when a creature that was dealt damage by equipped creature and causes the to work in a completely broken manner from how they should.

These are very common to see in commander in paper but on MTGO they are un-useable due to the nature of the bug.

I submitted this request (13537) but I want to put it here aswell so people can upvote it.

 

[ProR2D2]

Will add to this report that the tokens from Unscythe are real swamps instead of tokens.

 

[SwiftKitten]

its been a while since ive seen as none of my decks currently use scythe ti but this also happened to me when using scythe

 

[Flowbits]

I ran a Tetsuo Imperial Champion deck the other day and confirm both the triggers when they should not triggers and the swamp tokens

 

[Knight_of_BAAWA]

Just had it happen to me in a game today (Scythe of the Wretched). It wasn't even equipped to a creature.

 

[Neo001992]

When tested Scythe of the Wretched will incorrectly trigger off of a creature dying in combat when it isn't equipped to a creature. Once Scythe of the Wretched is equipped to a creature it appears to function as expected, and no longer reanimates creatures not dealt lethal damage by the equipped creature.

My testing with Unscythe, Killer of Kings appears to mirror my results with Scythe of the Wretched where it will incorrectly trigger when not equipped to a creature, but appears to function as expected once it is equipped to a creature.

https://imgur.com/a/BQkIFDl

https://imgur.com/a/ayM0u4P

Event#269561463 Game#881446288
Event#269561658 Game#881447112

 

[Quercus]

Card Name:
Scythe of the Wretched
Mana Cost:

Mana Value:
2
Types:
Artifact — Equipment
Card Text:
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach Scythe of the Wretched to that creature.
Equip

Game ID:887964596

In my Game Scythe reanimated creatures even though the equipped creature dealt no damage to that creature. It wasn't even equipped. Every creature that died just got reanimated by the Scythe.

 

[bigbuttbringus]

Scythe of the Wretched reads "Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach Scythe of the Wretched to that creature."
How it is functioning in game is "Whenever a creature dealt damage by a creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach Scythe of the Wretched to that creature."
This is not correct, and makes the card significantly stronger.
It isn't a may effect so I can't even choose to not use the exploit other than by not using the card.

In this game, my Liliana. Heretical Healer, was destroyed in combat by an opponent's Maelstrom Wanderer while I had a scythe in play (not attached to any creature) and controlled no other non-land permanents.
I cast an Undying Malice targeting my Liliana, to get the creature back after combat, however, when she was destroyed, Scythe's ability brought Liliana back to play (untapped and with no counter, so it wasn't my mistake confusing Undying Malice) and attached itself to Liliana.

 

[Firedrake]

lol, yes, this card has been bugged since at least 2016 as best I can recall. Please Upvote this Backlog thread to be fixed:

https://forums.mtgo.com/index.php?threads/scythe-of-the-wretched-and-unscythe-killer-of-kings-trigger-on-every-death.50/

Though it is funny in Casual games to have it misfire and an opponent unfamiliar with it asks, "Is it supposed to do that?" At which point I plead innocent and Concede.