<\/p>During a standard constructed Pro Tour Qualifier, Adam is deck checked during round 3, and is found to have the following cards listed as their sideboard:<\/p>\n
4 Cancel<\/a> [expand title=”View Answer”] A player is considered to have a Deck\/Decklist Problem when one or more of the following conditions are true:<\/p>\n and most importantly:<\/p>\n This decklist has 16 cards in the sideboard, which is too many! Assuming all the cards are legal for the format then the MIPG has a specific fix:<\/p>\n If the deck and decklist both violate a maximum cards restriction (usually too many cards in a sideboard or more than four of a card), remove cards starting from the bottom of the appropriate section of the list.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This means we remove the bottom sideboard card and then alter the list. The player then gets a game loss and can continue playing!<\/p>\n What this means for us is that our deck list should now look like:<\/p>\n 4 Cancel<\/a> We also alter the deck list to accurately reflect our new sideboard.<\/p>\n Note that there was another possibility here: As a special bonus, let’s play “what-if”!<\/p>\n What would we do if the player is playing 15 cards in their sideboard?<\/strong><\/p>\n If that is the case then we apply the fix:<\/p>\n Remove any cards from the deck that are illegal for the format or violate the maximum number allowed, fix any failures to de-sideboard, restore any missing cards if they (or identical replacements) can be located, then alter the decklist to reflect the remaining deck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Notice that we do not have to remove any cards! We simply issue the game loss and alter the decklist. The player then gets to happily continue playing! During a standard constructed Pro Tour Qualifier, Adam is deck checked during round 3, and is found to have the following cards listed as their sideboard: 4 4 4 4 When we investigate Adam is found to be playing all 16 sideboard cards. The error is unintentional. What is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,8,17],"language":[56],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronze","tag-competitive-rel","tag-ddl-problem","tag-ipg","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n4 Flashfreeze<\/a>
\n4 Phyrexian Revoker<\/a>
\n4 Garruk, Primal Hunter<\/a><\/p>\nWhen we investigate Adam is found to be playing all 16 sideboard cards. The error is unintentional.<\/div>\n
\nWhat is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and additional fix, if any?<\/p>\n
\nThe definition of deck\/decklist problem is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n4 Flashfreeze<\/a>
\n4 Phyrexian Revoker<\/a>
\n3 Garruk, Primal Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n[\/expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"