In this last game, there was a bug. Now that I see the log, I played no Potion turn 9, but isotropic offered me to put back Alchemist, two Treasuries, Herbalist (what the?) and Treasure.
I suspect this wasn't a bug, just the program not explaining everything in detail.
On the turn in question you played Treasuries, Alchemist, and Herbalist. All three cards do something when discarded from play; so, you have to order those effects, and the program lets you. In practice you would always put Alchemist ahead of Herbalist (that way you can use Herbalist to put a Potion on top if you have one while still putting Alchemist on top, and hey if you don't want Alchemist on top that's still optional). The program asks though, and the resolution is potentially different based on your decision in the case where you have a Potion in play.
Thanks for the reply, Donald. You are reading almost every topic here, don't you?
I figured out why parts of it happened. I shouldn't have called it a bug, it was just very confusing and in the heat of the moment I had no clue of what was going on and thought it was a bug (blame the machine and not yourself, it's easier this way
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I reproduced it now:
the message I got was like "clean up which card next> Treasury Alchemist Treasury Treasury Herbalist Copper Copper" (some money is missing, otherwise it's the same)
I didn't read properly, it doesn't say put cards back, it says clean up cards (and I'm no native English speaker, which maybe would have been helpful here, too. Or, just being more intelligent and carefully reading things. Choose one). Everything went right, but it still was confusing. Normally isotropic discards cards from play automatically, which it didn't do here with Alchemist. You need more than one card that can be put back to see thes "clean up ..." message, right? Honestly I can't remember seeing it before, normally it is just "put back this and that".
I see the reason now why Herbalist AND Copper are appearing here, but it contributed to my confusion.
So, I misread the interface here, which is my fault. My point is still valid, though, since Delseban could have reminded me that I had no Potion in play, like "hey, def, what's your problem, you had no Potion in play", which would have led to my reply "Oh. Right. I'm dumb." and the game continues...