Cards from the Mirrodin Besieged set are legal for use in Standard, Extended and Scars of Mirrodin block constructed as of last Friday, February 4th. Mirrodin Besieged was also made legal for all limited events on that date as well.
Category: Tournament Rules
Pack order when booster drafting is now different.
The change in the order that packs would be opened when booster drafting was announced last October and with the release of Mirrodin Besieged this change is actually going into effect. Here’s a quick recap; when drafting a block instead of opening packs in the order that the sets came out, you will now draft […]
What goes into your Total DCI Rating
Your Total DCI rating is comprised of your Constructed Rating (which is Standard, Extended and all Block Constructed formats) your Eternal Rating (which is made up of the Vintage and Legacy formats) and your Limited rating (all sealed and drafts formats). The DCI does keep track of other team formats and 2HG formats, but these […]
Drawing too many cards in your opening hand is not the same as drawing extra cards.
When you are drawing your opening hand, either before or after a mulligan, drawing too many cards is not considered to be drawing extra cards as long as it is noticed and taken care of right away. Errors like this are fairly common, they are also easily caught and correctable. The technical name for this […]
Extended is the current PTQ format
With a new year comes a new format for PTQs. From now until the middle of April PTQs that quality player to play at PT Nagoya will be Extended. Currently the sets in Extended at anything from Lorwyn block forward, or; Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide, Shards of Alara, Conflux, Alara Reborn, Zendikar, Worldwake, Rise of […]
New Magic Tournament Rules
There are a few minor changes to the new Magic Infraction and Procedure Guide and the Magic Tournament Rules that were recently released. One such change that appears in the Tournament Rules update is that players can now look at the sideboard of any players they currently control. This change means that you can look […]
Failure to desideboard
At Competitive (Comp) and Professional (Pro) events the beginning of each match decks must be returned to their original state so they match their decklists. In other words, players must desideboard at the beginning of each match. Assuming that this is accidental, the proscribed penalty for failing to do so it a game loss. However […]
Best of three or first to two?
Most matches of tournament Magic are played until a player wins two games. The winner is often referred to as having won ‘two out of three.’ However this does not mean that there can only be three games in a match. While not very common, it is possible for individual games of Magic to end […]
Know your DCI number.
Please make an effort to bring your DCI number to a tournament. While it is possible to looks up players’ numbers on site, the tournament can get started much easier and quicker if staff does not have to look up a lot of DCI numbers. One recommended trick is to enter your DCI number into […]