There is at least one scenario where the villain is X cards deep in the blessing deck. If you are playing a scenario like that, then obviously the order of the blessings make a difference if your drawing from top or bottom. Otherwise, no it doesn't matter much.
And flagging to move to the card game forum...
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Unless a card or power has specificly modified the blessings deck, no it really doesn't matter. Yes, technically the friend is right and you didn't follow the rules exactly as written. However, assuming nothing modified your blessings deck before the incident, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.
What everyone else said. You are right.
I had a debate like this at work, some years back. A team leader in my department stated that if you flip a normal penny 49 times, and it comes up heads all 49 times in a row, that the probability for the 50th flip is...
Several of us said this was nonsense. That if the penny was a real penny, it was still 50/50 for the next flip.
Some argued that if it came up heads 49 times in a row, it wasn't a normal penny. He said it was.
Eventually, people tried to end the argument. He wouldn't let us. He kept insisting we admit he was right.
This argument went on for about 3 hours. Additional people joined in, others walked off in disgust. He was my boss. I couldn't leave.
Three hours of my life I will never get back...
Your boss was wrong, knows nothing about probability, and likes to waste time. LOL.
If you flip a normal penny 49 times and it comes up heads all 49 times, you are very likely not flipping it normally. More than likely, you are flipping it in such a way that it always comes up heads.
At the point at which you ask me what the next likely outcome is, my job is figure out whether you will cheat to make it come up heads again, or whether you will cheat to make it come up tails. This depends entirely on what I think your estimation of me is.
If I think you think I'm not aware of your trap, I will pick tails, because you believe I will pick heads, and thus I shouldn't.
If I think you think I am aware of your trap, I will pick heads, because you believe this is the moment that I think you should switch, and thus you won't.
If I think you think I am a complete and utter moron, I will pick heads, because you believe I will pick tails because "probability says it will even out."
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While statistically, the 'next card' can be any one of the cards left in the deck, physically, that's not the case. The next card is the next card and not any of the other cards in the deck.
Mathematically, it doesn't make much of a difference at all, that is unless it has an influence on other possibilities.
For example: what if, during said game, you all ended up losing or having characters die because the 'final blessing' didn't match one someone was playing, thus disallowing them from recharging it as opposed to discarding it, and that caused someone to die, whereas if it would have matched the card you originally took from the bottom, that wouldn't have happened. You effectively caused that death!
Granted, there's lots that could happen between now and then, but sometimes, the slightest change of fate can bring about a big change of events.
Schrodinger Card! The result doesn't matter until it matters!
So, while your friend didn't exactly choose the best argument to make, it -technically- was against the rules, as the rules say to flip the top card and you didn't do that.
That being said, when I deal out cards, I don't always deal clockwise. Sometimes I change it up just to make things a little more random (and because I've met people that 'neglect' to shuffle well intentionally).
So, yep, what you did was against the rules. Did it matter a lot? Most likely not. Was it life threatening and should you be thrown in prison for 10 years without chance of parole? Nope.
Should you do it again? Only if you thought the argument your friend had was entertaining to everyone involved and it won't cause a rift the size of the Pacific Ocean to form between you; otherwise, you probably want to just draw from the top.
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Concerning the boss comment above, probability relies on randomness. There technically isn't anything random about flipping a coin; the definition of random is what it is only because we don't fully understand all of the influences and variables involved.
You should have told a boss that scientist created a machine that could flip a coin and 100% of the time it'd know exactly what it would come up as. It's still a coin flip, and probability of it landing heads or tails is still there, however, all of the variables are determined beforehand. It's still random, but it's not random ^^
You could have let your boss think about that one for a while :P
Next time, the coin will land sideways, and stay stood on edge...
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If I think you think I'm not aware of your trap, I will pick tails, because you believe I will pick heads, and thus I shouldn't.
If I think you think I am aware of your trap, I will pick heads, because you believe this is the moment that I think you should switch, and thus you won't.
If I think you think I am a complete and utter moron, I will pick heads, because you believe I will pick tails because "probability says it will even out."
Iocane powder. I'd stake my life on it!
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What we all need to take a moment to do is remember what kind of game you are playing. To make this game the most fun, play it like an RPG. When someone moves the blessing pile and a blessing get's misplaced, then make it part of the storyline instead of making it "fair".
I was playing a game and had 3 weapons for Merisiel. I was sorting my cards while the other guys were setting up the board. They announced that it was done and I gathered my cards and counted them... 11... 12... 13... 13??? Where are my three weapon cards? Noone knew... We then counted each location deck. 3 location decks had an extra card. someone had picked up my weapons and accidently shuffled them into locations for the scenario.
RULES were broken!!! I have 3 less cards - no weapons. There are more cards then legal in some locations!!
We could have gone through all the locations and found my cards then had to re-setup the scenario - rather than that...
Our scenario was altered to include that Merisiel was robbed the night before the mission. The party knew it must have been that slippery merchant they met the night before - furthermore he probably sold the items in the very region they were preparing to explore. She may need a little extra protection to get through this one alive - and hey if you find my stuff, please please try to get back my Long Shock Bow!