Forum:Hilarious/Infuriating Fumbles

We all have at least one moment when someone on either side of the playing field forgets/misreads a card effect text, or out of plain malice/selfishness, makes a silly move. This is a thread intended to share such moments.

NOTE: Silly, unthinkable, but never an illegal move. I want to differentiate this from the thread where people enforce their illegal plays.

An example: I'm tag dueling online via YGOPro. Opponent team consists of an Elemental Dragons player, and a Elemental HERO player. Elemental Dragons went first, setting up a strong opening field consisting of Light and Darkness Dragon, Phantom Beast Plane Drago-SAC, and another Dragon. I go next, but have little at my disposal to do anything about LaDD. E-HERO plays next. Rather than attacking with the current setup, he instead:

1. Tributes LaDD and an Elemental Dragon for Elemental HERO Bladedge.
2. Plays Super Polymerization to make Elemental HERO Great Tornado using a HERO in his hand and Drago-SAC.
3. Proceeds to attack straightaway and gets halted immediately by my Battle Fader.

The Elemental Dragons player comes back from AFK, sees that his perfect setup is completely ruined by his partner's selfishness, and is rightfully outraged. My teammate and I had a good laugh. Unfortunately, the Duel didn't conclude - someone disconnected and terminated it. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 01:06, April 5, 2013 (UTC)

My thoughts? LEEEEEEERRRROOY JENKINS! --UltimateKuriboh (talk • contribs) 01:12, April 5, 2013 (UTC)

Hey, at least the E-HERO player got chicken.

Anyway, I used Hazy Flame Peryton's effect twice in one turn (first one, then another) on DN; I completely forgot that it can only be used once a turn. Another time, when my opponent took control of my Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis with Mind Control, he used its effect and Tributed Heliopolis itself. I forgot to remind him that monsters taken by Mind Control can't be Tributed. ChaosGallade (talk • contribs) 01:17, April 5, 2013 (UTC)

I do believe I mentioned silly, but not illegal plays. But I'll let that one go.

There are multiple instances where I see opponents forget about lingering effects. This ranges from forgetting that One Day of Peace's damage-cancelling effect is still active, forgetting to force Frozen Soul to skip their Battle Phase (and thus preserving it for several turns), and perhaps most threateningly, not knowing that Hardened Armed Dragon is preventing an Earthbound Immortal from dying. Had a Duel where an opponent spent a couple turns wasting his resources trying to kill the unkillable.--Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 02:12, April 5, 2013 (UTC)

I was playing Bubble Beat and my opponent had Utopia face up with no backrow and 2 cards in hand, I use E-Call grabbing Stratos set my entire hand, summon Stratos to grab Bubbleman, special summon it, then proceed to use my other set E-Call to grab another Bubbleman to special summon it. At this point I have many options to go with, Excalibur, Blade Armor Ninja, Miracle Fusion play, but I don't go with any of them. I proceed to Xyz Summon Shock Master and use its effect to negate monster effects and go to my BP, then it clicked in my head that Utopia had higher Atk points than Shock Master, I ended my turn after that. I don't know what was going on in my head at that point but it was definately not the best play. Hastydemon2 (talk • contribs) 02:53, April 5, 2013 (UTC)

I see stupid plays all the time, but they're more often from someone not reading a card at all than from a misread. I'm getting sick of DN players attacking Gaia Plate because they've refused to read its effect. The other type of mistake often involves not noticing a combo until the duel has just finished, like losing a duel to Dark Necrofear's possession on Gyzarus while Battle Halberd has been stuck in my hand all duel. Battlemaniac (talk • contribs) 22:38, April 6, 2013 (UTC)

Oh, a hilarious occurrence that happened rather recently. Tag dueling again with 16000 initial team LP, and I managed to squeeze in a huge load of damage from the get-go and put the opposing team on the ropes. But the opponent managed to turn the tables and utterly waste my setup, resulting in my team getting wailed on for a few turns. My partner did nothing but set Chain Material for his first turn, and I left it there in case he was planning something. Cue Fusion Gate on his next turn, proceeding to fuse several Elemental HERO Electrums and making a few Super Dreadnought Cannon Express Gustaph Maxes. Partway through, he fumbles the loop, spends a little more time putting it back together, and nearly finishes off the opponent... only to get a loss declared due to our turn time expiring. If only that fumble didn't happen. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 02:47, April 7, 2013 (UTC)

Here's something else, also from a tag Duel. I was playing with Earthbound Immortals, and had an Amarylease placed nicely in the Graveyard. Partner's turn rolls around, and... he uses Amarylease's effect. What's the next monster he Normal Summons? Elemental HERO Ocean. Had every right to flip out over that, but fortunately he learned his lesson and didn't touch my second Amarylease. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 01:55, May 10, 2013 (UTC)

Something funny from YGOPro: Duel starts, my opponent goes first. He summons a monster, uses its effect, sets a couple of backrow. My turn, I summon Rescue Rabbit, so far so good. I use effect and summon a couple of Alien Shocktroopers, and my opponent responds with Fiendish Chain. I have a good laugh as my opponent is forced to use it on his own monster. That's one way to learn how to use a card. 75.85.135.105 (talk) 00:01, May 11, 2013 (UTC)

And here's my biggest misplay of all time. I'm in a tag duel, I go first, I set Mirror Force and Bottomless Trap Hole. Next turns are the opponent summoning a monster, I bottomless, then my tag partner summoned some monsters, other opponent set an S/T. So it's my turn again. At this point my tag partner typed in chat "Make sure to get rid of his set backrow", so at this point I'm thinking hard about how I can get rid of it without an in-hand MST. So I play Pot of Duality hoping for the best, and my opponent Dark Bribes it. I draw MST off of the Dark Bribe. Nice! So I'm still thinking about "get rid of that backrow" and mindlessly activate that MST. Just then I look up at the opponent's side of the field and see no spells or traps. Destroyed my own Mirror Force. Feels bad man. 75.85.135.105 (talk) 00:14, May 11, 2013 (UTC)