{"id":3817,"date":"2017-11-01T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2017-11-07T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:35:35","slug":"landed-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/2017\/11\/01\/landed-in-hot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Landed in Hot Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Botanical Sanctum'><\/p>\n<p>During a deck check in round 4 of a PPTQ, you quickly spread out the player&#8217;s deck, face down.You notice that five of the cards seem to be in sleeves that are a millimeter or two smaller than the rest. Those 5 cards are a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Botanical+Sanctum&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Botanical Sanctum<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Island&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Island<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Aether+Hub&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Aether Hub<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Spirebluff+Canal&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Spirebluff Canal<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Servant+of+the+Conduit&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Servant of the Conduit<\/a>. You ask the player about his sleeving process, and he says that he sorted the deck, filled out his deck list, then shuffled his deck a bit, then sleeved. He also mentions that he had to use two packs, because the first pack didn&#8217;t have quite enough sleeves for his entire deck. You&#8217;ve ruled out any type of Cheating. What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>[expand title=&#8221;Answer&#8221;]Issue the player a Game Loss for Marked Cards. The five cards which are discernable from the rest are all blue lands or are able to produce blue mana within a turn. Knowledge of this could enable a player to gain substantial advantage, so the penalty is upgraded to a Game Loss.[\/expand]<\/p>\n<p>Judges feel free to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/forum\/topic\/39423\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a deck check in round 4 of a PPTQ, you quickly spread out the player&#8217;s deck, face down.You notice that five of the cards seem to be in sleeves that are a millimeter or two smaller than the rest. Those 5 cards are a , an , an , a \u00a0and a . You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41,4,35],"tags":[],"language":[56],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marked-cards","category-silver","category-tournament-errors","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}