How did a player use only 3 recycled runes to hide 2 cards (2 power) and play Divine Judgement (1 power), which should require 4 total recycled runes?

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Accepted Answer

Ruling: The player made a misplay in the order of rune recycling. They had enough runes to legally achieve the same board state, but recycled them in the wrong order - using yellow runes to hide cards when they should have used orange runes first, then used yellow runes to pay for Divine Judgement.

Sequence:
- Player should have recycled 2 orange runes to hide 2 cards (2 power)
- Then recycled 2 yellow runes to pay for Divine Judgement (1 yellow power required)
- This would have resulted in 4 total recycled runes for the correct payment

Nuances:
- In casual play, this type of misplay could be corrected by reordering the rune payments if caught immediately, since the end result would be the same
- In competitive play (higher OPL), the player would likely have to recycle an additional yellow rune and accept the misplay