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I was in discard phase and my opponent had Guardian up. I, being cute, threw down falling away like it would work and then laughed and put it in my discard pile. I was informed by my opponent that I had to return one of my own redeemed souls to my land of bondage. I felt like such an 'Alstead'.
A recent one I can remember was in a T2 game. My opponent had Unholy Writ active so I banded Simeon to Captain of the Host and then chose the blocker as Captain had been set aside with Provisions. When my opponent asked what Lost Soul I was going after (since it's Rescuer's Choice in T2), I took a quick glance at his LoB and said "NT Only." You can probably guess what happened next...
used jeptha's ability to discard no one due to protection and top decked my NJ lol
This wasn't exactly a "terrible play," but rather falls under the "terrible decision" category. A couple months ago we were getting ready for T2 MP and this crazy old guy from somewhere in Missouri was throwing his deck together at the last minute. I offered a few suggestions for making his deck better suited for MP as opposed to 2P. He ended up winning T2 MP and rubbing it in our faces for the rest of the weekend... Lesson learned...don't try to teach old dogs new tricks, they might actually figure them out... Love you like a brother Craig!
Are we only limited to one dumb play for this thread? It would take me a while to narrow down which was my dumbest move.
While playing a T2 2P game at SW Regionals with a prophets deck, I set aside three different characters with Provisions while Rain Becomes Dust was active, which discarded my Angel of the Lord.
Even if it was your choice to discard the card, it's still an opponent's card, which your hand should be protected from.
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...