{"id":817,"date":"2013-08-21T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:08:12","slug":"the-fateseal-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/2013\/08\/21\/the-fateseal-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fateseal Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Aaron and Nadine are playing each other in the third round of a Legacy GPT.<\/p>\n

Aaron has a Jace, the Mind Sculptor<\/a> in play. He activates Jace’s +2 ability, and looks at the top card of Nadine’s library. He thinks for a moment, then shows it to Nadine and asks, \u201cIs this the card you’re looking for?\u201d while trying to read a reaction.<\/p>\n

Nadine’s reaction is to put her hand up in the air and yell, \u201cJUDGE!\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you rule?<\/p>\n

Judges, feel free to discuss this scenario on Judge Apps<\/a>!<\/p>\n

[expand title=”View Answer”]Congratulations to all the judges who correctly realized that no infraction had been committed!<\/p>\n

Referring to the MTR (3.12), this behaviour is specifically allowed, \u201c\u2026 players may choose to reveal their hands or any other hidden information available only to them, unless specifically prohibited by the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while some judges questioned whether this was USC-Minor, attempting to gain additional information by trying to read your opponents behaviour is not Unsporting Conduct.[\/expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron and Nadine are playing each other in the third round of a Legacy GPT. Aaron has a in play. He activates Jace’s +2 ability, and looks at the top card of Nadine’s library. He thinks for a moment, then shows it to Nadine and asks, \u201cIs this the card you’re looking for?\u201d while trying […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"language":[56],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronze","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}