I tried redownloading MSE and all of the installers. Still, I have not found a way to fix the problem. A bunch of littler errors all indicate the same thing: that my MSE is out of date. Perhaps I am downloading an old version from the wrong source?
Nah, Sparkers have only been posted for download in one place, as they are fairly new.
From my FAQ:
The installer file won't run. Maybe you got a corrupted file? I would try downloading it again. Even with good stable hosting, it is not impossible to get a corrupted file every now and then.
The installer file says it can't create a file. This is due to a permissions problem with Windows 7 and later. To correct the issue, you need to either give yourself the proper administrative permissions to "write" to files in Program Files, or you need to move your Magic Set Editor installation outside of your Program Files directory. I strongly recommend moving it outside of Program Files directory. This is not anything I can help - this is a change introduced in Windows 7 by Microsoft that cannot be worked around by myself, nor any other developer for Magic Set Editor. I'm sorry.
It sounds like you tried the first solution, redownloading. That didn't work. So, move on to the second.
There is a third solution in the FAQ that should be an absolute last resort.
Is there a Hydra deck set of templates or color schemes for MSE? The Heads seem to use the token template, but the colorscheme isn't in the token template set.
It's funny - even if they turn out to be inaccurate, I sort of like the idea of an early version of the template like this. Kind of like a snapshot of the history of Theros reveals.
I've always advocated that adding a state-based effect dealing with instants and sorceries in play was an easy solution for dealing with weird interactions and the possibility of non-perms being in play.
Its one of those topics that's always met with some degree of negativity, and can spark huge arguements, but I for one have always felt like the idea of a fireball or a net or a disarming rolling mist coming out of a morph shell was too flavorful and cool to ignore. And its possible to make 0/0 creatures with morph triggers, but you lose that flavor; and its a shame when you can just drop an SBE in and go.
Of course, the real question is, what should happen when a non-perm is in play? I've always felt like they should go to the graveyard (like everything else that leaves play from an SBE), but that doesn't mesh well with some player's concepts of how morph should work on a non-perm. But my response to that was always to expand the morph rules to say that if a non-perm with morph is turned face-up, you play it without paying its mana cost, and as an action that doesn't use the stack (so the action can't be responded to, but once the spell is on the stack, it can be responded to). Otherwise, you're using the SBE to get the cards to work, which feels wrong to me. The SBE should cover difficult cases and prevent unhealthy interactions.
I'm going to stop now before I enrage a rules guru.
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Nah, Sparkers have only been posted for download in one place, as they are fairly new.
From my FAQ:
It sounds like you tried the first solution, redownloading. That didn't work. So, move on to the second.
There is a third solution in the FAQ that should be an absolute last resort.
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Its one of those topics that's always met with some degree of negativity, and can spark huge arguements, but I for one have always felt like the idea of a fireball or a net or a disarming rolling mist coming out of a morph shell was too flavorful and cool to ignore. And its possible to make 0/0 creatures with morph triggers, but you lose that flavor; and its a shame when you can just drop an SBE in and go.
Of course, the real question is, what should happen when a non-perm is in play? I've always felt like they should go to the graveyard (like everything else that leaves play from an SBE), but that doesn't mesh well with some player's concepts of how morph should work on a non-perm. But my response to that was always to expand the morph rules to say that if a non-perm with morph is turned face-up, you play it without paying its mana cost, and as an action that doesn't use the stack (so the action can't be responded to, but once the spell is on the stack, it can be responded to). Otherwise, you're using the SBE to get the cards to work, which feels wrong to me. The SBE should cover difficult cases and prevent unhealthy interactions.
I'm going to stop now before I enrage a rules guru.