At a Grand Prix Trial, Ajani plays and mills Nissa for ten cards. Amongst them, Emrakul is put into the graveyard. After the ten cards are put into the graveyard, Nissa immediately picks up her graveyard and begins shuffling it into her library. Ajani calls over a judge and explains he wished to respond to […]
Category: Game Play Errors
A Traitorous Moon
At a Competitive REL Legacy event Nightingale controls . Annabelle casts by sacrificing two s for WW and tapping for 2. In response, Nightingale casts targeting Annabelle and both spells resolve normally. Annabelle then plays an Island and sacrifices the City of Traitors. After Annabelle puts her City into the graveyard, Nightingale realizes that Blood […]
Taking out Elspeth
Arthur and Mr. Nigma are back at it again, playing in a Sealed GPT. On Arthur’s turn, he draws . Mr. Nigma has been pumping out an army of chump blockers with , which is currently at 3 loyalty. Arthur triumphantly Bolts Elspeth down to 0, scrys a card to the bottom of his library, […]
Star-Crossed Minotaurs
Alan and Nathan are playing in a Sealed GPT. Alan casts a , then attacks with a . Nathan controls a , but chooses not to block with it. During his second main phase, Alan casts . Alan looks at this hand for a few seconds, then says “Umm… I guess it’s… WAIT!” He then […]
Here’s Looking At You, Deck
At a Grand Prix Trial you are running at your local store, a spectator points out a player to you and asks you to watch the way he shuffles. Before the player’s match, you witness him riffle shuffle with the cards facing himself once, and then once with the cards facing away. He repeats this […]
Temple of Malarkey
Aardvark is playing in a Standard Competitive REL tournament. He’s playing a red-black aggro deck. On his decklist is written 4x . A start of round deck check reveals he’s playing 4x . The decklist is otherwise legal. What do you do? What are the relevant infractions, penalties, and fixes, if possible? Judges, feel free […]
Drawing Extra Cards, Game Play Errors, Game Rule Violation, Gold, Looking at Extra Cards, Missed Trigger
Better late than never
Abel is playing in a Standard PTQ. He controls a , which he untaps at start of his turn. He then immediately draws a card for his turn. He pauses for a second, says, “Oh!” points to his Pain Seer, then reveals the top card of his library, which is a Swamp. He says “Swamp. […]
A Little Moxcident
Atari is playing against Nintendo on Day 1 of a Grand Prix. Atari casts a . Nintendo nods, and then says, “When it enters the battlefield I’ll cast Wear (from ) on it.” Atari taps Chrome Mox and casts in response. Nintendo calls a judge (you), and explains that Atari tapped the Mox for mana […]
Chained to the Temple
Adam and Nelson are playing in a Standard GPT. Adam taps his 3 Mountains and to cast and . He exiles Nelson’s with his Chained to the Rocks, and attacks for 2 with his Chandra’s Phoenix while putting the Chained to the Rocks on his Temple of Triumph. Two turns later, you walk by the […]
I am the Mouth of Saur…err, Ronom!
In a Modern Grand Prix Trial where you are the head (and only) judge, Alex calls you over to his match. He explains that during his turn, he had attacked with a . Nathan responded by activating a targeting the Celestial Colonnade. Alex responded by casting a for 4. He gains 4 life and draws […]