Sealed products aren’t always perfect, I know old Magic tales of Ravnica packs containing 15 Angel of Despair because some employee tried sneaking them out and buying the boxes with these super packs in them.

When you’re playing a limited event with unopened packs, sometimes they may contain printing or distribution errors. Alert a judge right away and they will decide how to proceed. Possible solutions are to swap out the defective product with correctly allocated ones, or to tell you to keep the pack for yourself but exclude it from your card pool for the event while providing a new pack, or to leave it in the event as it is while recording the discrepancy. Also as a reminder, in any Day 2 GP drafts or Pro Tour drafts, foil cards will generally not exist (if there’s an exception, the Head Judge will announce that in advance), so if you do receive a pack with one, also tell a judge.

Besides, you wouldn’t want to open a sealed pool with 7 non-rares and have the judge think that you’re cheating, would you?

Today’s Tournament Tip written by Eddie Cheung