WWYD

[Mauro]

What would you discard? I think I'd discard one of the dragons, since the rest of the hand looks quite nice, with a possible two runs in crak; the player discarded 5 crak, though, and the next tile she they drew was a green dragon.

On one hand I understand going with the dragons can give yaku, but on the other hand you lose a chance to seven pairs and to two runs.

[or2az]

My first thought is to go with a dragon also.
However, I would need to know a few things before making a final decision.
1. Is the south wind of any importance to me?
2. How many tiles are left in the wall?
3. What tiles have been discarded/melded by other players?
4. The score. Am I behind or ahead, and by how much?
5. At what point in the East/South round are we?

Maybe, just maybe, I might need Honitsu in addition to the other possible yaku.

[Mauro]

This is the situation:

1. Is the south wind of any importance to me?

How this affect the discard? Since it's dora you could want a quick hand, so hoping to draw a dragon is better?

Maybe, just maybe, I might need Honitsu in addition to the other possible yaku

But wouldn't discard a crak go against this? With six craks, two dots and two bams, if I want to go for honitsu wouldn't be better to keep the five, which isn't isolated?

[or2az]

The south wind would provide a yaku if I was sitting south or in the south round, which would yield more points should I need them, and make me feel better about discarding a dragon, or even opening the hand. None of this turns out to be the case

I am not considering discarding any of the cracks.
If I was way behind in points, I might consider discarding the dots and bams since I now know it's very early in the hand, and there are two and two already showing, making that honitsu more tempting. ( A is also showing)

And, since I now know that the are dora, there are even more points on the table.
A mangan would certainly help the situation.
It comes down to how aggressive you want to be.

[Mauro]

The south wind would provide a yaku if I was sitting south or in the south round, which would yield more points should I need them, and make me feel better about discarding a dragon, or even opening the hand

What I meant is, also if south was my or round's wind, I don't think I'd discard crak, so I was wondering if you thought of any situation in which depending on south you would, since you asked of south is of any importance to you.

[or2az]

I would not discard under any circumstances here.
What I meant by "importance" is, was it worth any points or yaku to me?
You cleared that up. No Yaku. Dora points.
That , along with the other information you provided, would help me decide which way to go with the hand.
If the and partials filled in early, after discarding the dragons, then the would go, riichi and 2 dora would be OK for me. Forget honitsu.
I try to keep all options open, if I can.