You find out you are the head judge of the Dragon’s Maze prerelease at your local store, problem is, you’ve never given head judge announcements before! What are some of the things we want to include or avoid when doing HJ announcements at Regular REL? Judges, feel free to discuss this scenario here!
Category: Bronze
Arrested (Decklist) Development
At a Limited-format Pro Tour Qualifier, after the initial pool registration and swap, the Head Judge instructs players that they have 30 minutes to build and register their decks. Players are told to hand in their decklist to a judge once they have completed this process. During round 1, judges count all of the decklists, […]
Rock-Paper-Therapy-Elder-Spock!
During day 2 of a Legacy Grand Prix Anton casts in his first main phase by paying its mana cost. He names and sees that in Nicholas’ hand there are two copies of . Anton then attacks Nicholas with his , deals combat damage and then moves to his second main phase. Once there, he […]
Pile Shuffling
At a Pro Tour Qualifier (competitive REL), you’re watching Andrew shuffle for the beginning of round 1. After several different shuffles, Andrew finally does a pile shuffle, then presents his deck. What is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and and possible fix?
Bloodgift Demon
At a Standard GPT (REL Competitive), Adam controls a . After Nadine passes her turn, Adam untaps, draws a card and immediately proceeds to the Declare Attackers Step. He attacks with both and some other creatures. Nadine casts a , targeting Bloodgift Demon, to which Adam responds by casting Undying Evil, remarking: “This badass is […]
Planeswalker Problems
At a competitive rules enforcement level event Adam controls a . Nadine controls a with 2 loyalty counters. Adam declares Thrun as an attacker and Nadine has no responses. Nadine moves to mark down a life change and Adam stops her, saying he was attacking Garruk. Nadine calls a judge. What is the appropriate infraction, […]
Lightning Bolt
At a Standard FNM Andrew casts a , a card that is not legal in the Standard Format. His opponent calls immediately a judge to check on why Andrew is playing an illegal card. After some questioning the judge determines Andrew was not aware of anything at all about formats, and is just playing a […]
38 card decklist
During decklist counting at a 32 person Sealed format Grand Prix Trial, you find that a player turned in a decklist that has 38 cards. There are no white cards listed, there are no white-mana activations or flashback costs either, but the decklist does have three , and there are several strong white cards in […]
Phyrexian Revoker
Adam and Nadine are playing in a Standard PTQ. Nadine controls an . Adam casts , and names for the Revoker’s enters-the-battlefield replacement effect, then passes the turn. During her turn, Nadine casts . Two turns later, Nadine carefully re-reads , and notices that it specifies the named card must be nonland. Nadine calls a […]
16 card sideboard
During a standard constructed Pro Tour Qualifier, Adam is deck checked during round 3, and is found to have the following cards listed as their sideboard: 4 4 4 4 When we investigate Adam is found to be playing all 16 sideboard cards. The error is unintentional. What is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and additional […]