{"id":724,"date":"2013-05-29T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/?p=724"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:08:25","slug":"why-are-you-splitting-hairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/2013\/05\/29\/why-are-you-splitting-hairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are you splitting hairs??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Nevermore'><\/p>Alfred is yet again playing Mr. Nigma and as usual, they have a question for you concerning life totals.<\/p>\n<p>After resolving that issue, you notice that Alfred has a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Nevermore&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Nevermore<\/a> in play with no indication that you can see to determine what was named. After asking a few questions, you determine that when Alfred played the Nevermore a number of turns ago, he had named <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Beck+%2F%2F+Call&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Beck \/\/ Call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is the most appropriate infraction\/penalty\/additional fix?<\/p>\n<p>Judges, feel free to discuss this scenario <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/forum\/topic\/4376\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[expand title=&#8221;View Answer&#8221;]Alfred has committed a Game Play Error &#8211; Game Rule Violation and Mr Nigma has committed the associated GPE &#8211; Failure To Maintain Game State. As per the recent rules change, you can no longer name both halves of a split card for things like Nevermore.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred needs to make a legal choice as part of the partial fix exceptions in the GPE-GRV additional remedy section.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Alfred does not need to name either Beck or Call. <\/p>\n<p>How this choice is indicated on the card is up to the players, as long as the choice is legal and both players are completely aware of the game state. A judge may request that they make the game state clear to observers (such as the judges) by using a slip of paper to indicate which card was chosen for Nevermore.<\/p>\n<p>One very important item I would like to be sure everyone is aware of is the excellent post by Eric Shukan. As he noted, we should never be trying to influence player&#8217;s actions during a match.[\/expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred is yet again playing Mr. Nigma and as usual, they have a question for you concerning life totals. After resolving that issue, you notice that Alfred has a in play with no indication that you can see to determine what was named. After asking a few questions, you determine that when Alfred played the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"language":[56],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silver","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}