(Not a bug) Discard Choosing

[kackman73]

Okay, I'm now fully on board with a fix for this. The ability to keep an opponent's hand open indefinitely to steal something can't possibly be intended.

Most recent frustrating example:

I was playing against DAITHINK. Annoying enough that the dude uses Silvios right now, but whatever.

1) He played the card that makes your next action a surprise.
2) While that was about 3/4 of the way to resolving, I played a Ritual Sacrifice.
3) While my Ritual Sacrifice was 1/4 of the way to resolving, he played a surprise Ritual Sacrifice.
4) Then he kept my carousel open until I took his Doomsday about a half-day later (he had a lot of good cards, so it took me a few seconds to decide).
5) He immediately took his Doomsday back.

I'm okay with using Ritual Sacrifice to retrieve what your opponent stole with his Ritual Sacrifice.

I'm not okay with using Ritual Sacrifice that resolved a whole 1/4 day before mine to wait to steal back what I stole.

I immediately quit after he did this, of course, but now I wish that I'd just kept his hand open indefinitely myself. I wonder how many days we would've gone through before he finally took a card from me first.

[Rob (Roebidoebi)]

I assume this is the way it's suppost to work. It was different in the past and got changed recently. Closing this topic as not a bug.

[ironcladtrash]

The only one I thought was a bug before was Holy Day because it didn’t stay open. All the other discard effects want you to choose a card and they keep the carousel open. Holy Day doesn’t pick any card, it just looks at the opponents hand and discards all 11 cost cards. I am moving this one off the list completely. All cards seem consistent in how they work. If anyone wants to change how those cards work it’s probably better to post in Dear Devs.

[Rob (Roebidoebi)]

You're right about Holy Day. Maybe a separate bug report should be filed on specifically Holy Day as it is the only card that behaves differently.

On the other hand Holy Day IS different than all the normal discard-choosing cards. It's debatable whether the erase or look-at effect is the main goal of the card. If it's the "look-at" ability, the current behavior can be justified. Otherwise I would expect it would behave just as the discard cards (unless Marc decided that erase is more powerful than discard).