{"id":1159,"date":"2011-09-27T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:07:06","slug":"how-to-choose-objects-at-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/09\/how-to-choose-objects-at-random\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose objects at random"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many cards in Innistrad have effects where players have to choose a random card from a graveyard. Examples of cards with these abilities are Ghoulraiser<\/a>, Make a Wish<\/a> and Charmbreaker Devils<\/a>. There are many ways to do this and not one specific way that is required by the tournament rules.<\/p>\n

Separating the cards of the appropriate type or subtype and having a player choose one is not always the best method, as the choice is not always truly random. Players can either intentional or intentionally choose a specific card.<\/p>\n

To enture that a random card is used it is a common practice to use dice. You can assign a number to each potential card and return the card that matches the die roll. If the initial die roll does not match one of the possible cards, simply re-roll.<\/p>\n

It is important that both players are comfortable with whatever method is used to randomly pick these cards. If there is a disagreement or concern, call a judge and he or she can step in to help ensure a fair and unbiased method is used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many cards in Innistrad have effects where players have to choose a random card from a graveyard. Examples of cards with these abilities are , and . There are many ways to do this and not one specific way that is required by the tournament rules. Separating the cards of the appropriate type or subtype […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[462,460,461],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournamentrules","tag-charmbreaker-devils","tag-ghoulraiser","tag-make-a-wish","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}