My friend had a question about this card, why would you ever want to play plot that lets your opponent destroy a different card, potentially and likely one of yours in a joust game.

As you and your friend have already noticed, you obviously wouldn't really want to play this in joust. It works best in melee.

Thats what we figured, but thought we would check. The decks in the core set need some tweaking looks like when it comes to plots, course even in melee this one could backfire on ya.

Oh, I completely agree with you. I'd even consider changing some of the plots around in melee.

Maybe you can consider playing it in joust game if you run a shadows deck and want to have an extra 5-gold-plot. Anyway, it's too risky and nobody uses it, at least in my meta.

Many people use this plot in the French meta. If you reveal it during a turn where your opponent as a dangerous character and you don't look yourself too strong (which is usefull in melee games), you just have to ask another opponent to choose and it's likely he will just kill the dangerous character.

I agree that some of them can backfire, leaving you empty handed. Good thing is you can play this plot in the opening round, making your opponent unable to kill

Also, if you find them to be Illogical in joust, you can make a gentleman agreement that all plots with "choose another player...you and that player.." or similar don't work (their text box is considered blank). In this way you may also avoid those turns where you are not allowed to have 2 types of challenges (military and power for example).

Yeah we just took it out of the deck for now.