{"id":6,"date":"2024-12-23T06:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:36:03","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Originally published on 2024-12-23; last reviewed on 2026-08-15; last updated on 2025-08-15)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links to the official resources provided by Wizards of the Coast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em> Comprehensive Rules (CR)<\/a>: The most current version of <em>Magic<\/em>\u2019s game rules. Available as a PDF, Word, or raw text file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/en\/rules-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em> Tournament Rules (MTR)<\/a>: The most current version of <em>Magic<\/em>\u2019s universal tournament policies. Available as a PDF file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/en\/rules-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>Magic <\/em>Infraction Procedure Guide (IPG)<\/a>: The most current version of the infraction and penalty guidelines used at Competitive Rules Enforcement Level (REL). Available as a PDF file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/en\/rules-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Judging at Regular Rules Enforcement Level (JAR)<\/a>: The most current version of the tournament guidelines used at Regular REL. Available as a PDF file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gatherer<\/a>: A searchable Oracle card reference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links to unofficial resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yawgatog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yawgatog<\/a>: The most current version of the Comprehensive Rules as a fully linked HTML page. Yawgatog also documented changes to the Comprehensive Rules and to Oracle text, starting with <em>Ravnica: City of Guilds<\/em> (October 2005) and ending with <em>Ixalan<\/em> (September 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academyruins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Academy Ruins<\/a>: Run by V\u00e1clav Lu\u0148\u00e1k, this site documents changes to the Comprehensive Rules, starting with <em>Magic: the Gathering\u2014Conspiracy<\/em> (June 2014), and to the <em>Magic<\/em> Tournament Rules, starting with <em>Kaldheim<\/em> (February 2021). Academy Ruins also provides the ability to search these changes for a specific rule, and hosts older versions of the Comprehensive Rules, the <em>Magic<\/em> Tournament Rules, and the Infraction Procedure Guide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Policy Perspectives<\/a>: Toby Elliott, primary author of the <em>Magic<\/em> Tournament Rules and the Infraction Procedure Guide, explains updates made to these documents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scryfall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Scryfall<\/a>: A searchable Oracle card reference. Scryfall\u2019s search features are much more powerful than Gatherer\u2019s, and it provides Oracle text for cards not found on Gatherer. The only drawback is that Oracle text found on Scryfall is sometimes outdated or inaccurate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally published on 2024-12-23; last reviewed on 2026-08-15; last updated on 2025-08-15) Links to the official resources provided by Wizards of the Coast: Links to unofficial resources:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_width-index.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"language":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/nametherule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}