{"id":1288,"date":"2016-09-28T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:34:10","slug":"scg-standard-regionals-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/2016\/09\/28\/scg-standard-regionals-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"SCG Standard Regionals Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Aaron<\/a>

Aaron Hammer, Level 1, Newark, Ohio, United States<\/p><\/div>\n

August 6, 2016 | Greater Columbus Convention Center<\/p>\n

210 Players | 12 Judges<\/p>\n

Head Judge: Jarrod Williams<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the SCG Regionals\u00a0hosted by Comic Town, I was\u00a0assigned to the paper team.\u00a0Previously, I have distributed\u00a0 match\u00a0slips at my local\u00a0FNM, but I have yet to do this task at a larger event. My duties for this event were new\u00a0and\u00a0exciting. I met my team lead, Jesse Meiring<\/a><\/span><\/span> and my team mate Chelsea Hogan<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Jesse<\/a><\/span><\/span> seemed energetic and a\u00a0great guy, so we were going to\u00a0get along just fine. I\u2019d met Chelsea<\/a><\/span><\/span> once before, but haven’t\u00a0worked with her on\u00a0a\u00a0team until this event. She shared the same energy I see in most awesome judges. It\u00a0ended up being a great day.<\/p>\n

Considerations and Lessons Learned<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t try to be a hero and cut too\u00a0many\u00a0match slips at once with the paper cutter. I mangled a few. Only one\u00a0needed\u00a0tape and luckily the others were not bad enough to require reprints.\u00a0 A\u00a0more experienced L2 judge made me\u00a0feel better about myself when he did it too.\u00a0This paper cutter was a bit sketchy, so that didn\u2019t help. For\u00a0example:\u00a0beautiful cut, beautiful cut, beautiful cut, SLIP MANGLE MANGLE, beautiful cut,\u00a0etc. In the end, taking\u00a0the task slow and steady while trimming fewer sheets of\u00a0paper with each cut was successful. It is something so\u00a0easy to consider, yet so\u00a0easy to forgo while rushing to get all the slips cut.<\/li>\n
  2. If you don\u2019t have boards already set up for\u00a0your pairings, go find a place to put them.\u00a0 Also, get painter\u2019s\u00a0tape up before the player\u2019s meeting and determine who will take down each\u00a0round\u2019s pairings and when. I\u00a0volunteered for this job and I believe I did well. No\u00a0pairings were still up with 20 minutes remaining in any\u00a0round, except when I\u00a0was on break, which brings me to my next learning experience.<\/li>\n
  3. Always ask someone to take over your duties before going on break.\u00a0When I went on break no one took the match slips\u00a0down. Mainly because I was the one doing it and didn\u2019t slip on it\u00a0all day, so\u00a0no one else had to think about it. I also didn\u2019t remind my team lead that I had\u00a0taken care of this\u00a0task up until that point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That was my experience on the paper team. Afterwards, I also volunteered to be one of the top 8 judges, so I\u00a0stayed\u00a0through the conclusion of the event. The semi-finals featured a Bant Company\u00a0mirror where game 1 lasted\u00a0over an hour. Game 2 concluded when one player\u00a0counted his opponent\u2019s graveyard and declared he had no creatures\u00a0remaining in\u00a0his deck. Fantastic!<\/p>\n

    When the paper team’s tasks were all settled, I helped\u00a0out with floor judge calls. Here were the interesting ones from my\u00a0notes:<\/p>\n

    <\/p><\/p>\n

    Essence Flux<\/a> + Spell Queller<\/a>\u00a0 doesn\u2019t work the way you want it to.\u00a0When your\u00a0Spell Queller<\/a>\u00a0leaves play and\u00a0re-enters during the resolution of\u00a0Essence Flux<\/a>\u00a0the ETB and LTB triggers both go on the stack. No matter\u00a0what\u00a0order you decide to put them in, the ETB trigger has no spell to target and\u00a0will be countered on resolution\u00a0unless you get a more complicated scenario with an\u00a0additional spell already on the stack. The LTB trigger isn\u2019t the spell\u00a0coming back,\u00a0rather it\u2019s the question of \u201cmay cast\u201d. The exiled spell hasn\u2019t been placed on\u00a0the stack yet to\u00a0be targeted by the ETB trigger.<\/p>\n

    <\/p><\/p>\n

    In another case I observed, Archangel Avacyn<\/a>‘s Flip trigger can be responded to with a removal spell. So\u00a0can her indestructible trigger. Also, a player\u00a0cannot sacrifice Mausoleum Wanderer<\/a>\u00a0with no spell to target. If\u00a0that were the case, it would say \u201cup to\u00a0one target\u201d instead. In this case, the player wanted to sacrifice his\u00a0 Mausoleum Wanderer<\/a> to make\u00a0Archangel Avacyn<\/a> transform.<\/p>\n

    A vigilant, attacking Anointer of Champions<\/a> can target itself with its activated ability. The ability’s text does not specify that it has to target another creature.<\/p>\n

    The extra turn granted by Emrakul, the Promised End<\/a>\u00a0counts as one of the five extra turns\u00a0after time has been called for the round. In a brutal scenario that I was fortunate to have watched, Player A, who was controlling Player B’s turn activates Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy<\/a> and discards player B’s\u00a0Emrakul, the Promised End<\/a> which flipped the Jace. He then made player B use Jace’s – ability to and cast To the Slaughter<\/a> from the graveyard, asking player B to target himself and sacrifice player B’s Sylvan Advocate<\/a> and Liliana, the Last Hope<\/a>. Furthermore, he asked player B to cast Pulse of Murasa<\/a> to make Player A return another copy of Emrakul to his hand. Player A also asked player B to play an Evolving Wilds<\/a> and fail to find a basic land. Yet another interaction in this brutal turn showed Player A asking player B to activate the – ability of his Sorin, Grim Nemesis<\/a>, target itself using all of its loyalty as the value of X. To top it all off, player A asked player B to activate his Lumbering Falls<\/a> and attack it into player A’s Emrakul. What a slaughter!<\/p>\n

    <\/p><\/p>\n

    Gaining control of a planeswalker with Dragonlord Silumgar<\/a>\u00a0does not\u00a0cause ETB triggers on the planeswalker.\u00a0It was already on the battlefield even\u00a0though it switched sides. Sorry players no Oath trigger for you!<\/p>\n

    Bouncing melded cards, like Brisela, Voice of Nightmares<\/a>\u00a0to your hand causes both cards to go there. This also applies to other cards which changes the zone of the melded card.<\/p>\n

    <\/p><\/p>\n

    Players\u00a0don\u2019t have to acknowledge P\/T change triggers on a\u00a0Mausoleum Wanderer<\/a>\u00a0until it becomes relevant to the\u00a0game state. Thus, your\u00a0opponent didn\u2019t miss those triggers if they sacrifice it in response to you\u00a0casting a spell and say, \u201cCounter unless you pay 3?\u201d<\/p>\n

    Similarly, when a player casts Emrakul, the Promised End<\/a>, passes the\u00a0turn and reaches for\u00a0Player B\u2019s deck. Player B calls judge\u00a0hoping Player A missed trigger on\u00a0controlling a turn. Unfortunately for player B, player A was demonstrating awareness of\u00a0the\u00a0trigger as it was becoming relevant to the game state.<\/p>\n

    I also observed that what makes Elder Deep-Fiend<\/a> so good is the fact that a player’s mana pool empties at the end of steps and phases. Thus, if a player esponds to an\u00a0Elder Deep-Fiend<\/a>‘s ability by tapping the targeted lands during his\/her upkeep, he\/she will no longer have the mana that was floated during her draw step or her main phase.<\/p>\n

    On Penalties<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I had to issue 2 players game losses for being tardy by around 8 minutes. I also warned a player for looking at extra cards \u00a0for revealing one too many cards to Evolutionary Leap<\/a>. My final penalty of the day was a warning for a GRV given to a player who used Murder<\/a> targetting a Lumbering Falls<\/a> which was hexproof.<\/p>\n

    Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

    That\u2019s all folks. I\u2019m a terrible writer. Hopefully my ramblings were interesting at least. I had a blast and I\u00a0hope to\u00a0test for Level 2 soon. My comfort level was very high and I\u2019m very confident\u00a0that I can do this at the\u00a0highest level my family life and availability will\u00a0allow me. Working larger events like this is what I want to do,\u00a0so L2 is where\u00a0I want to be by the very definition of roles.\u00a0On a side note, pierogies are amazing. Don\u2019t\u00a0ever work an event at the Columbus Convention Center without eating\u00a0at North\u00a0Market across the street, more specifically, at Hubert\u2019s Polish Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Aaron Hammer’s<\/a><\/span><\/span> report features his insights about working on the Paper Team at a large tournament. Check out his observations on two dominant archetypes in standard: Bant Company and Emrakul-based decks. Read Aaron’s report to learn how to be a more efficient member of the paper team at your next big tournament! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49,66],"tags":[121],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scg-regionals","category-standard","tag-aaron-hammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}