Had something come up tonight, if you decide to skip your turn that is not the cost of a card, do you skip your entire turn, even your start of turn phase or do you do the start of turn phase first, they skip turn? This is important as we had some cards that we didn’t want to activate at the start of our turns.
I wasn’t aware that you could decide to skip your turn unless a card said otherwise. Playing a card and using a power are optional, but I’m reasonably certain that the start of your turn and the end of your turn are not.
Yeah, the rule is that, if you skip your play and power phases, you can draw an extra card during your draw phase. There’s no option to skip your turn; although this rule is often over-simplified as skipping your turn, that’s not what’s happening.
This raises an interesting question, though. I can’t remember what environment card it is off the top of my head that says a player may skip their turn to destroy it, but is that decision made at the start of that player’s turn or in some nebulous space before their turn actually begins?
I’m nearly certain the card says something along the lines of “At the start of a player’s turn, that player may skip the rest if ‘his’ turn to destroy this card.” Thus, it would occur during the normal start of turn phase, processed in card order (so any start of turn effects that was played after this card woulc be skipped if you chose to skip your turn at that time).
So basically you can’t skip your turn turn unless a card allows you to? That does make sense and pretty much ends any argument about what happens, since when a card allows you to skip your turn you have to do them in order of cards played.
Ah, that answers that. I obviously didn’t have it in front of me, so I couldn’t recall the exact wording.
At any rate, the guys in the lab have done a pretty good job of making sure we know exactly what things happen when and in what order, if you read cards exactly as written. There aren’t really any exceptions to the basics, which I love.
Well you can ‘skip’ your turn without officially skipping it, every part of a hero’s turn is optional, you do not have to play a card, you do not have to use a power, you do not have to draw a card; the only parts that are not optional are cards you have already played with effects that trigger on certain conditions (e.g. a start of turn trigger like Absolute Zero’s Impale card).
Uh… :-\
Just to make sure there’s no misunderstanding, as you didn’t mention this: You can’t skip the start of your turn or the end of your turn. We don’t want someone thinking they can avoid some effect or cost they don’t want to deal with that triggers during one of those two phases. 
Rabit
Yes, I kindof took it is read that this known but I should have stated it explicitly.