{"id":787,"date":"2017-07-18T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/playerexperience\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:23:46","slug":"sleeves-and-artwork-a-tournament-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/playerexperience\/2017\/07\/18\/sleeves-and-artwork-a-tournament-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeves and artwork: A tournament guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Miquel \u00c0ngel Moya
\nLevel 2, Spain<\/p><\/div>\u00a0<\/b>You have been preparing for weeks, if not months, that big tournament, be it an FNM, a Game Day, a GPT, PPTQ, a GP, a WMCQ\u2026 you name it. It\u2019s your big day and you\u2019re going to fight your way through the tournament to reach the Top 8 and, who knows? Maybe you\u2019ll rise triumphant with the victory in your hands. You\u2019ve got everything ready: a solid and tested deck, some counters, a life pad, an awesome playmat, and probably some astonishing sleeves. Maybe some promo and foil cards or even some alters to give your deck a new glamour.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is all very nice but, is your deck really ready for the battle? Sleeves in good shape, foil cards indistinguishable from the regular ones, checklist cards for your <\/span>Magic Origins<\/span><\/i> Planeswalkers, and alters that follow the guidelines? It\u2019s never too late to make sure that your deck is following all the rules and you can go to the tournament feeling safe and avoiding those pesky infractions during a deck check.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re going to go over all these points and we\u2019ll see the potential consequences of not abiding by the rules along with some tips to prevent any problem. Let\u2019s go!<\/span><\/p>\n

Back to the basics<\/b><\/p>\n

But, first, let me go over really quick about what makes a <\/span>Magic<\/span><\/i> card a <\/span>legal<\/span><\/i> card and everything we check during those fearful deck checks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point in doing deck checks is making sure that every card in a deck is, in fact, a legal <\/span>Magic<\/span><\/i> card, that they aren\u2019t marked – (more on this later), and that the deck conforms to the deck construction rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

Legal<\/span><\/i> card? What in the world is a <\/span>legal<\/span><\/i> card? Let\u2019s see what the MTR has to say about that:<\/span><\/p>\n

[MTR 3.3 Authorized Cards]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(…) Players may use any Authorized Game Cards from Magic: The Gathering expansions, core sets, special sets, supplements, and promotional printings. Authorized Game Cards are cards that, unaltered, meet the following conditions:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n