Welcome to the state of the region post! It’s been quite a while since the January update. My goal for this year to write monthly about our region was blown away by busy-ness in my personal life. Some person thought it was a good idea to have a kid, buy a new house, move into […]
Summary of Tournament Shortcuts This week on Rulesday Tuesday we tackled a topic that’s been much discussed lately, Tournament Shortcuts. As part of the communication portion of the MTR, most of our shortcut problems focused on how the players specifically communicated, and exactly what sort of things we try and avoid by setting up […]
Summary of Special Actions This week’s topic of special actions started off with us asking what exactly were all the special actions? Most players know about land drops, but there are 7 total; they are: Unmorphing (or manifest/megamorph) Playing Lands Rolling the Planar Die Ignoring an ability by paying a cost, ala Suspending a […]
Summary of Attack & Combat Abilities Vigilance, Reach, Battle Cry, Exalted, First & Double Strike Mortal Combat! Now that you’ve finished humming along to the Mortal Kombat theme in your head, let’s talk about abilities that are relevant to creatures in Combat. In particular, let’s look at ones that come up often in standard and […]
Summary of Linked Abilities Occasionally in Magic, cards will have an ability that does something, and then another ability that directly refers to what the first ability did. These are referred to as Linked Abilities and can lead to some very interesting rules scenarios, which made it a great topic for this week’s Rulesday Tuesday. […]
Summary of Difference between Destroy and Dies To begin this discussion, let’s get right into a question. We’re back on Theros, and I cast on an . What happens? Jason Chance explained what Destroy means quite clearly – When the spell resolves, Elspeth is destroyed. To carry out that action, you move her from the […]
Summary for Protection This week for Rulesday Tuesday we discussed Protection, an old school keyword ability that provides a lot to discuss as it does a large variety of things for a keyword. We started off with the basics of what protection did, so question 1 asked whether or not you could a ? TJ […]
The January 2017 regional update. Updating on regional projects as well as keeping us focused on our regional goals.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our series of highlighted exemplar recognitions. See our introduction post for all the details, or view all the posts in this series. is a Level 2 Judge from Montpelier, Ohio. His nominations during Wave 7 feature on his impact upon colleagues during events. Here is what Judges had […]
Patrick Nelson is a Level 2 Judge from Speedway, Indiana. His nominations during Wave 7 noticed both his events leadership as well as his efforts in organizing and running an area conference for central Indiana.