Happy Birthday, CMC!

Cardmater Conflict is 2 years old today, and I've got some treats for you.

First, There's a new donation card. Hurray!

Secondly, I've made some updates to the server which I think you'll like.
- Counterspells (Except the Warpbird) now can be used to counter counterspells. Basically, what happens it that when resolving, if a counterspell fails, then it turns of any previously run counterspells. If you think of a counterspell as 'disabling' the success of cards resolving after it, a second counterspell in the stack re-enables it. Cards that resolve between the two counterspells still fail.
- In addition, all abilities that should have it now have failure costs. If the ability is put on the resolve set but does not actually succeed (say, due to being countered), then the mana cost of the ability, and any other associated costs are still paid. Unfortunately it is possible I may have missed some, so let me know on the forum if you find any mistaken failure costs (or if a card has a strange come into play ability that should be the failure cost). You can tell the difference between the failure cost and an merely what the ability does by two things: When an ability is listed with something than a colon (say, Discard a Card: ) it means it's a cost. If it says "and" or "," (like Discard a Card and) it is not a cost. The other indicator is the word "Fail:" or "Failure:" which indicates a failure cost that isnt part of the ability cost.
- You should now be able to re-join games if the game is still going. If you hit refresh during a game, or time out locally (but the game hasn't ended yet due to the timeout), or if you hit backspace, you should be able to rejoin a game in progress by going to the same URL. You can also use this to switch computers in mid game.

And, finally, here's a gift from me to you: VCHSOMECAKE - this voucher will be disabled next week so act fast!

I am holding a contest regarding this voucher. If you can figure out exactly (EVERYTHING) the voucher card does (exactly) the first five people to pm me on the forum about it will get an as of yet undecided prize.

EDIT: Just to let you know, the Cake's ability is not random. It's entirely deterministic based on game conditions. But it aint easy to figure out. Oh, and it does more than one thing. I'll make it clear with a news post once five people are correct.

EDIT 2: I will ONLY accept FORUM PMs. This is so all of my entries can be in one place so I'm not scrambling to find them all. Entries in public places will not be tolerated since it ruins the spirit of the contest.

EDIT 3: You can enter multiple times, but I'd prefer if you made sure you were sure before you did it (instead of burying me in PMs). Whenever someone wins, I'll post here saying that there's now one or two or three or whatever winners.

EDIT 4: Please include ALL relevant data in every message. (NO addons to previous messages will be considered). Please note you will not be disqualified except if you attempt to ruin the contest somehow or repeatedly in the face of warnings do something against the rules.

EDIT 5: If I tell you that you're wrong, you might still be 99.9% correct and missing one important detail. It's either 100% right or it's wrong.