'Forgiveness' card retrieval bug - reproduceable.

[FearfulSymmetry]

If you cast Forgiveness on turn 2, then cast Forgiveness a further two times in the same match, the third forgiveness will not return a card to your hand. I saw an opponent experience this in a match, and then reproduced it for myself. Edit: FearfulSymmetry vs. Joe De Mango 7/31/2014

Mac OS 10.7.5, Shadow Era v2.840 current as of 7/31/2014

Reproducing the bug is pretty simple -

Use a Priest Deck with 3 copies of forgiveness in it. You need to draw one in the first 2 turns. Play it on turn 2. The play the other 2 when you draw them. The third one you play will give you an extra shadow energy as usual, but will not return a card to the hand.

My understanding is that Forgiveness creates a placeholder card in your resource pile, so if you sacrifice Tidal Wave on the first turn and Braxnorian Soldier on your second, then cast Forgiveness, the TW will return to your hand, and your discard pile will be:

Brax ... PLACEHOLDER

If you sacrifice Bad Santa on turn 3, then whatever you sacrifice after that, the bottom three cards in your resource pile will be:

Brax ... PLACEHOLDER ... Bad Santa ... etc.

Cast another Forgiveness, and you will return Brax to your hand, leaving:

PLACEHOLDER ... Bad Santa ... etc.

Then, when you cast the third Forgiveness, it will try to return the bottom card in your resource pile to your hand, but the bottom spot in your pile is just a placeholder. So, voila, nothing comes back to your hand.

[tman507]

Your logic is definitely correct on why it does this. This has been reported in the past, although I forget what the official word on it was. One would think that they should just make it that it takes the bottom resource that is actually a card, just skipping over the placeholder, but I forget what the official word on this was.