Counter spelling your own card
Attempting to counter my own spell by paying an alternate cost that would sacrifice a stolen permanent.
In a final fantasy draft, I had a Retrieve the Esper exiled by Opera Love Song and a Louisoix's Sacrifice in hand. The opponent had a Squall SeeD Mercernary on their board. I used Unexpected Request to steal Squall and swing with him. In in second main I casted Retrieve with the intention of countering it with Louisoix sacrificing the enemy's Squall. But it didn't let me cast Louisoix's so I couldn't sacrifice the Squall and drew no other way to get rid of him, losing me the match and getting the last loss to lose the draft overall. I thought I was about to have a genius level play getting rid of Squall but it wouldn't let me do it. I even double checked to make sure that I had the 1 blue mana needed after casting Esper.
This was on mobile Arena on an Android phone.
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Rezzahan#77802
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As a default, Arena uses the tournament shortcut of passing priority after you cast a spell or put an ability on the stack. To respond to your own stuff, you have to go into Full Control BEFORE you put the spell/ability on the stack.