I don’t to add fuel to the fire so to speak, but I ask you this. If an opponent has a Dark Confidant in play and chooses not to reveal the card that he draws with the Dark Confidant during his upkeep (or fails to even resolve the trigger), this use to be a strict game loss. Then it was a warning.

Now consider you’re in the top 8 of a GP, and this happens. A judge is sitting right there watching the game. Your opponent fails to reveal with Dark Confidant. There’s a warning.

In the third game of the match you have absolutely no outs, with two Dark Confidant’s on board. The first trigger resolves as usual, but your opponent misses the next and simply draws a card rather than resolving that trigger… the judge stops the match for a ruling.

The intent is clear- the opponent simply wants to draw his cards, and finish you off. But because of a game state error, he’s rewarded a game loss, and loses the match because of it.

Of course, stranger things have happened: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpchi09/welcome#16

But does winning this game mean I’m a poor sportsman? Does this one sloppy play by his opponent make Cedric a shady player?

I think not. Rules govern how we all interact, otherwise, with takebacks, etc. we’d all have a much larger mess to contend with….