Arcades is playing a match against Nebuchadnezzar which is in game 2. Both players draw their opening hand of 7 cards, and Arcades immediately keeps. While considering their mulligan decision, Nebuchadnezzar realizes that they forgot to put the cards they intended to sideboard into their deck. You investigate and discover that Nebuchadnezzar’s deck contains 55 […]
Author: JSH
Stolen Breath
Agustin is playing against Neal at a Legacy Grand Prix. Agustin controls , and each player has three cards in hand. Neal untaps and draws for his turn, and immediately passes. Agustin untaps and draws, then Neal notices that they each forgot to reveal the last card they drew for Breathstealer’s Crypt, and calls for […]
Critical Decksterity Fail
Adia is playing in a sealed MCQ. She sits down for game 1 of her match, grabs a pile of roughly 40 sleeved cards out of her deck box, shuffles, and presents to her opponent. Upon drawing her opening hand, she immediately calls a judge and explains that this is her sideboard. She has several […]
A Confusing Copying Conundrum
Alex is playing against Nicky in your local MCQ. Alex casts from their graveyard, and Nicky responds by casting the Expansion half of . Alex Attempts to the Expansion, but Nicky has a counterspell of his own, responding with . The players resolve everything, but Alex puts the Chemister’s Insight into their graveyard. In the […]
Parter of Fails
Amandine and Nougat are playing in an MCQ, where you are the head judge. Nougat controls and . Last turn, Nougat activated Teferi’s -3 ability targeting Amandine’s , putting it 3rd from the top of Amandine’s library. This turn, Amandine has drawn a card, and cast . While resolving , Amandine scries a card to […]
Self-Sabotage
Allison and Newton are playing in an MCQ, where you are the Head Judge. Allison controls two . She activates both of her Daring Saboteurs and attacks Newton with them. After combat damage, Allison points at her attackers, announces “Draw two. Discard two.”, picks up two cards from her library and, before NAP can stop […]
In the Mountains
You are head judging a Guilds of Ravnica Sealed PPTQ with a store owner (who is L0) as a helper, who is doing deck checks for the first time. You’re deck checking, and your helper tells you the deck he is checking is about half blue cards and half black cards, but on the checklist […]
Miss-Cliqued
You’re the head judge of a local modern PPTQ. At the end of Ned’s turn Alfie casts , targeting Ned with the triggered ability, it resolves and Alfie chooses to have Ned discard . On Alfie’s turn in his pre-combat main phase he casts another , again targeting Ned with the triggered ability. The Clique’s […]
Team Bonding Exercise
Adica, Baptiste and Cal are playing in a Team Unified Standard tournament. You’re watching their matches and see Baptiste draw a , a card which Adica already has in her hand. What do you do? [expand title=”Answer”]In Team Unified tournaments, two members of the same team can’t register the same card in their deck, except […]
All Aboard!
Amie is playing against Nyla in a sealed PPTQ. Amie casts , and Nyla lets it resolve. Amie says “look at six,” immediately grabs the top 6 cards of her library, and starts to look at them. Nyla calls for a judge. What do you do? [expand title=”Answer”] This is a Hidden Card Error. The […]