{"id":6642,"date":"2017-04-30T05:58:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/?page_id=6642"},"modified":"2025-01-25T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:45:43","slug":"ipg3-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/ipg3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"3.4 Tournament Error – Decklist Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Definition<\/h2>\n

The decklist is illegal, doesn\u2019t match what the player intended to play, needs to be modified due to card loss over the course of the tournament, or is presented to the opponent with errors in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Penalty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Game Loss<\/p>\n

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These are the major cases where the decklist has to be modified. An illegal deck, is a deck with not enough cards; too many cards in the sideboard, ambiguous cards names, or cards that are illegal for the format.<\/em>
\nWhile we use decklists to confirm that players do not change their decks over the course of the tournament, we do consider the physical deck to be the true representation of what the player intended to play, and we expect the decklist to represent the physical deck.<\/em>
\nWhile a penalty for lost cards may seem harsh, players have the option to replace those lost cards with another copy; if they can find it. Additionally this discourages a potential cheating angle, where the player determines their land count is incorrect and would like to \u201close\u201d a card and replace with a land.<\/em><\/div><\/p>\n

This infraction does not cover errors in registration made by another participant prior to a sealed pool swap, which should be corrected at the discretion of the judge.<\/p>\n

In the case of a sealed pool, the registration was done by another player, and those errors were not made by the player playing the deck. We don\u2019t want to penalize a player for a mistake made by another participant. Use your judgement to determine if they error can be corrected and do so.<\/em><\/div>\n

Examples<\/h2>\n