A Grizzly Mess

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Ampharos is playing against Natu in a Standard Constructed GPT during the first week of October. Ampharos controls an Alpine Grizzly. He casts Force Away on Seeker of the Way controlled by Natu and draws a card. He then attacks for 4 with his Alpine Grizzly and passes the turn. As Natu is untapping, she realizes Ampharos never discarded a card for Force away and calls a judge. Ampharos tells you that he just didn’t finish reading the card and didn’t realize he was even supposed to discard. What do you do?

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Answer
Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s scenario! Here is the solution:

It will be a GPE-GRV for Ampharos and a GPE-FtMGS for Natu, so both players will get a Warning. We will apply the partial fix here and have Ampharos discard a card for the Force Away, then allow them to continue playing after reminding Ampharos to be more careful in the future.

Why isn’t it a rewind? Since the new IPG update, we now regard rewinds as a last resort method. Since there is a partial fix for this situation, we will apply that instead of a rewind.

Good job to everyone, and thanks again for participating! Keep an eye out for our next scenario – it will be posted soon! 🙂