Ok, I looked this up on uppedeck and couldn't find any answer to this....... I currently got a MoN, for my deck.... the card says randomly discard (does this mean your opponent gets to discard your cards??)........ maybe a dum question but my opponent said that there wasn't any sense of the cards text saying "RANDOM" if you could see what your discarding......... now I suppose there's not much sense drawing cards if your opponent gets to choose "RANDOMLY" that is which cards to discard........... whats the real ruling??......... thanks in advance

The card text should answer it for you.

You know what "random" means, correct? Leaving it up to probability, chance, etc..

In other words, you do NOT get to look at the cards while you discard them, as that would clearly not be random.

The easiest way to do a random discard(s) is to place all of your cards face-down and let your opponent discard, without either of you seeing what is discarded until it is in the graveyard. You could also do this yourself by just discarding without looking, but letting your opponent do it is probably better sportsmanship, and gives them less reason to suspect that you're attempting to cheat with "random" discards.

If "Mirage of Nightmare" intended to let you discard whatever cards you wanted from your hand, its card text would accordingly say so. "Random" discard definitely means you do NOT get to choose while looking.

Exactly what it says, you randomly discard. You could:
1) Let your opponent choose the cards you'll discard without looking.
2) You could shuffle your hand face-down and discard without looking that way.
3) You could roll a die and have each number count for a card. 1 being your furthest left and then moving to the right (or vice versa).
Basically, any way that insures that the cards are, as Mirage of Nightmares stats, randomly discarded, the method used doesn't matter as long as it was a truely random discard.

I see......... its a very, very risky card............. well anyways thanks for the quick reply...... seems this aint the card 4 me

Of course, if you really want to keep the cards you draw from it, you could try to have a "Mystical Space Typhoon" (harder to do now, since it's limited to 1) or "Emergency Provisions" ready to use during your Draw Phase to prevent the discards altogether.

does this apply to Delinquent Duo even though the new text says you discard one at random should you still let you opponent do it.

also with mirage... what if your opponent plays IO to your mirage... you woudnt draw right? what if they play IO after u have drawn.... i have heard diff things so i would like the correct answer

xeris2:
You could let your opponent do the discarding, but because you randomly discard, you can choose in what way the random discard will take place (as long as its random :p ).

SainkaCell:
If Imperial Order is active at the time the Draw effect of Mirage of Nightmare tirggers, you won't draw any cards. When Imperial Order is active at the time the discard effect of Mirage of Nightmare triggers, you don't discard any cards.

Sorry about this.... before I came about asking this question I had previously read the UDE Faq... and came upon this involving IO