{"id":17,"date":"2024-11-11T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:07:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Jonathan Goud and I am a Level 5 M:TG Judge. I have been a judge since April 2012 and a Level 3 under the old system since June 2015. I was the Regional Coordinator for Canada for a couple of years. I first began playing M:TG in 1994 and never really stopped! This blog is a place where I will be sharing some thoughts on evergreen judge topics such as investigations, community involvement, mentorship, and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also looking forward to sharing my &#8220;Metagame Reports&#8221; that I typically share with the judge staff prior to events. I was recently convinced that they may be beneficial for judges beyond each tournament and could serve as a fun historical document of our tournaments together.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/2024\/11\/11\/why-tree-of-tales\/\">Why &#8220;Tree of Tales&#8221;?<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-11-11T23:39:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">November 11, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">My first &#8220;judge friends&#8221; outside of Canada were the US judges in New England because the Boston and Maine area are closest to where I live in Canada. I have\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/2024\/11\/11\/why-tree-of-tales\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Why &#8220;Tree of Tales&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/2024\/11\/11\/rc-calgary-pioneer-nov-2024\/\">RC Calgary &#8211; Pioneer &#8211; Nov 2024<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-11-11T23:23:18+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">November 11, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This is an interesting tournament metagame-wise because the flagship tournaments lately have been standard. We do have the RC in the states a few weeks back, but otherwise the action\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/2024\/11\/11\/rc-calgary-pioneer-nov-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: RC Calgary &#8211; Pioneer &#8211; Nov 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jonathan Goud and I am a Level 5 M:TG Judge. I have been a judge since April 2012 and a Level 3 under the old system since June 2015. I was the Regional Coordinator for Canada for a couple of years. I first began playing M:TG in 1994 and never really stopped! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"language":[],"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jgoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}