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This fail was so worthy that I thought that it deserved a report.

I was playing with my Disciple deck and played Sorrow of Mary and my opponent had Sog and angel so I underdecked sog. On his turn he went out with Matt and drew three, I blocked with Sabbath Breaker and drew 3 and played Balaam's. Then I realized that I had Foreign Wives in my territory, then I realized that he had Angel, then I realized that I had failed. Later I found out that I had Vain Philosophy in my hand and I could of underdecked Angel.

That is a professional fail.

At nationals, I went to play Mayhem against John Earley and played Vain Philosophy instead. Then I played Mayhem. Fail.

At nationals, I DoN'd Golden Cherubim so I could play Pretension and he couldn't search. I throw down Pretension and realize that Golden Cherubim is CBN. Fail.
However, I then realized that Sabbath Breaker was the only EC in my territory (I had a Pharisee in hand that I was originally intending to put down, but didn't for whatever reason) and I couldn't draw off Pretension anyway. Two fails make a win?

At nations against John Early, he makes a rescue against me with The Strong Angel.  Neither of us realize that he's negated because of the punisher soul, so I block with proud pharisee (planning to play tenants kill the son, but I would have played Just a Hireling which I also had in my hand if I had realized it wouldn't be prevented), and he immediately plays grapes, since we didn't realize I had a play first.  Both of our Sons of God are on the bottom (sorrow of mary on his, revealer on mine), so shuffling the deck is a big deal here.  This wouldn't have been so bad, except that I also had Herod's temple out, and completely failed to realize I had no reason to let him kill proud and shuffle his deck (and to make it even worse, I knew my SoG and NJ were both on the bottom (both hit by the revealer), so there was zero risk with activating HT).  I end up losing because he draws his Son of God on a draw 1 with about 10ish card left in his deck, the next turn I would have won without SoG.