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Level 53 player here, and what I've been noticing a bit playing against players ranked higher than me -- and I totally get this -- is that the banned/disliked cards are typically cards that have significant swinginess based on shuffle luck and timing like Tournament.

You can't totally prevent swinginess: I lost a game against a chap 10 ranks below me who went first and got to open 5/2 with Cultist on board, and had two more Cultists by turn 5.  But there's some cards that are a lot more likely towards it.

I guess my point being, banning/disliking certain cards may not be about lack of skill, but rather wanting to make sure that the skill/luck ratio is more a 70/30 or 80/20 proposition in determining the winner rather than closer to 50/50.

As a general rule of thumb, I'll always accept the first request.  I also don't ask for Undos.

But I've also noticed that some people are simply playing way too fast.  Personal opinion, that's not on me to rectify.  So I'll always decline subsequent requests for any reason.

I, too, would like to see the Undo request feature simply disappear.

Is this intended or a bug?

I played a sample game today that included Vassal and Faithful Hound.  It also included Imp, which I don't believe had any impact on this particular aspect of gameplay.

So I played an Imp, drawing my two cards.  I then got to play an action of my choice, so I chose a Vassal.  The Vassal turned up a Faithful Hound, which was discarded.  I chose to set the Faithful Hound aside, which the game executed, but the game still offered me the option to play the Faithful Hound.  So I tried it, and Faithful Hound played.  At the end of my turn, Faithful Hound also entered my hand, giving me a six-card hand to start the subsequent turn.

I suspect this behavior is flawed, or at least not intuitive.  I would think that if I set aside the Faithful Hound card on its effect, then when Vassal went to look for Faithful Hound in the discard pile, then it wouldn't be there, and I would be unable to play it.  And if for some reason the Vassal could find the Faithful Hound to play it, then the card would no longer be set aside, thus making it unavailable to join the subsequent hand.

But I tend to get royally confused with these "lose track" issues, so perhaps I've misunderstood how this works.

Clarification?