You’re the Head Judge of a Standard PPTQ and notice a match where Albert has a in play with no counters on it. You inspect the match and see no other toughness pumping effect keeping it in play, so you step in and ask what’s going on. Albert quickly realizes his error, picks up a […]
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A Latecomer to the Breakfast Club
You are the head judge of a PPTQ and entering into the final round when floor judge Emily approaches you with an appeal. Emily has issued a game loss for Tardiness to Harley. Harley says that they was not in their seat at the start of the round, as they had gone off site with […]
The Secrets of Sportsmanship
Amir is playing against Nemo at a large Competitive REL Modern event. On his first turn of the match, Amir plays an Island and puts an unchecked Shadows over Innistrad checklist card onto the table, saying “Delver”, and gets a Delver of Secrets from his box to represent it in play. Nemo calls for a judge and points out the issue […]
A Monumental Mistake
Amy is playing against Nigel in a Modern PPTQ, with her Eldrazi deck. She controls an , an , and an , and several lands. Amy untaps, draws, then attacks with all of her creatures. While thinking about blockers, Nigel notices that should have triggered and calls for a judge. Amy admits to missing her […]
Buried Treasure
Andrea and Norman have presented their decks to each other for Game 1 at their local Modern PPTQ. Norman does a pile shuffle of Andrea’s deck and asks afterwards, ‘So you are playing with 61 cards?’ Andrea replies, ‘What?! No…’ and quickly checks her sideboard: There are 15 cards. They call you over as a […]
Champion of What?
Patrick is playing his God-Pharoah’s Gift Deck at a Standard 5k event run at Competitive REL. This is Patrick’s Deck List 22 LANDS 4 Glacial Fortress 2 Hostile Desert 2 Ipnu Rivulet 3 Irrigated Farmland 5 Island 6 Plains 14 CREATURES 4 Angel of Invention 4 Champion 3 Minister of Inquiries 3 Sacred Cat 14 […]
Don’t short-sleeve yourself!
Amy has sat down to play her round 1 match at a Sealed PPTQ against Neve and the round has just begun. Amy calls for a judge because she discovered that she has an extra card in her deck. She knows she has exactly 40 sleeves, but while sleeving, she ended up with an extra […]
Temple of Oops
At a Modern PPTQ you are the Head Judge of, Ashton is playing against Naomi. Ashton plays his land for turn, a . Ashton picks up the top card of his library, looks at it, sets it back down on the table. Ashton thinks, and then picks up the card and puts it into his […]
Absento Vanguard
You are head judge of an Ixalan sealed PPTQ. At the end of round 2, a player turns in an in a matte black sleeve that he found it on the floor. He has no idea whose it is, and there are a couple dozen players with matte black sleeves. When you announce the card […]
Grim Speculation
You’re the Head and only judge of a Modern PPTQ. Arielle is playing against Nice. Arielle controls a and he activates Liliana’s -2 ability, searches and finds a card. She then shuffles her library and puts that card on top of it. Arielle then attacks with a , and Nick blocks with a . They […]