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Always get a chuckle re-reading these stories...

I have one from this past weekend that wasn't exactly a "terrible" play...just one of those "Are you kidding me?" moments that tend to happen in booster draft.

It was my turn and I had 4 LS. All three of my opponents had Lost Souls out, but two of them seemed much more vulnerable in terms of defense. I had several Clay Heroes and a couple clay battle winners, but I also had Faith of Jacob. I decided I was better off getting multiple Heroes into battle right away so I used Faith of Jacob to take two of my brother's Heroes, one of which was able to start his WC banding chain and then I grabbed his Jacob (CoW) since I figured why not protect my hand for what should be the final battle.

I push the 3 Hero band into battle against the opponent I felt had used up most of his defensive options. With a resigned look, he reluctantly blocked with Spirit of Fear (Withdraw all Heroes in battle. Opponent may allow you to discard a card at random from hand instead.) No big deal I thought since I didn't actually have anything to play on the Heroes in battle. A moment later I realized the crushing truth (as did my brother)...CoW Jacob was now protecting my hand thereby not giving me the option to instead the withdraw...

As it turns out, if I had just attacked the other player I thought was vulnerable, I would have walked in for #5--instead the guy who blocked me ended up getting to 5 and I ended up in second... 

Even if it was your choice to discard the card, it's still an opponent's card, which your hand should be protected from.

Another thing I wanted to confirm was this: if you chose not to reveal a good dominant or let your human be discarded don't you have SI at this point? Same situation for Spirit of Fear or any other such character ability.

I watched someone the name "overplank" play mayhem at nats in multi game where an opponent had Rbd up.

Always get a chuckle re-reading these stories...

I have one from this past weekend that wasn't exactly a "terrible" play...just one of those "Are you kidding me?" moments that tend to happen in booster draft.

It was my turn and I had 4 LS. All three of my opponents had Lost Souls out, but two of them seemed much more vulnerable in terms of defense. I had several Clay Heroes and a couple clay battle winners, but I also had Faith of Jacob. I decided I was better off getting multiple Heroes into battle right away so I used Faith of Jacob to take two of my brother's Heroes, one of which was able to start his WC banding chain and then I grabbed his Jacob (CoW) since I figured why not protect my hand for what should be the final battle.

I push the 3 Hero band into battle against the opponent I felt had used up most of his defensive options. With a resigned look, he reluctantly blocked with Spirit of Fear (Withdraw all Heroes in battle. Opponent may allow you to discard a card at random from hand instead.) No big deal I thought since I didn't actually have anything to play on the Heroes in battle. A moment later I realized the crushing truth (as did my brother)...CoW Jacob was now protecting my hand thereby not giving me the option to instead the withdraw...

As it turns out, if I had just attacked the other player I thought was vulnerable, I would have walked in for #5--instead the guy who blocked me ended up getting to 5 and I ended up in second... 

 

I am guilty of many misplays and most of them come down to missing something with the board state or forgetting cards in hands. Examples.

Missing the Dull soul being out and searching and drawing with AUTO and Samuel.

Missing Herod's Dungeon/writ out and rescuing with a Hero that could be captured.

Going for a NT soul vice an OT one when opponent has a Philetus (5/6 one) out and I don't have a way to respond to the protection Philetus would give.

Seeing Confusion in my opponents hand the turn before and letting them have initiative to play it while SOG is in hand.

Not playing Falling Away (Cloud) on a Jacob playing Reubens Torn clothes before blockers and just giving up the soul.

Considering these are just a few of my misplays at tournaments it's a miracle that I can win at all. Lol