{"id":2506,"date":"2012-10-16T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:28","slug":"how-to-do-things-randomly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/10\/how-to-do-things-randomly\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do things randomly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, you’ll need to do something ‘randomly’ in Magic. The most common way this’ll come about is by discarding a card randomly, but there’s a few cases where you’ll have to select something to be affected at random (Grip of Chaos<\/a>, Tyrant of Discord<\/a>, etc). So what’s the best method? <\/p>\n

Many players tend to do ‘random discard’ either by shuffling their hand where they can’t see it and grabbing a card, or just fanning their hand out to let their opponent pick one ‘randomly’. The best method for the hand thing is to shuffle up your hand and fan it out face-down on the table, away from other cards. Grab an appropriate die, assign values to each card, and roll. If you have 3 cards in hand, for example, you could have the leftmost card be 1 and 2, the middle be 3 and 4, and the rightmost be 5 and 6, and just roll a d6. Or if you have 5 cards, roll a d6, with 6 being a reroll. This way it’s truly random. This is also highly advisable if you happen to draw a Miracle as the first card with your Desperate Ravings<\/a>; this way, you can keep the Miracle revealed but still discard RANDOMLY. There’s also some occasions you’ll need to flip a coin (Mana Crypt<\/a> is the most common one for me, since I have one in just about every Commander deck I run). You could flip a coin, or you could roll just about any die you have handy; just call ‘evens’ or ‘odds’ rather than ‘heads’ or ‘tails’. There’s 3 even and 3 odd numbers on every d6 I own, so it’s the same odds as heads or tails.<\/p>\n

Today’s Tournament Tip written by
\nTrevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, you’ll need to do something ‘randomly’ in Magic. The most common way this’ll come about is by discarding a card randomly, but there’s a few cases where you’ll have to select something to be affected at random (, , etc). So what’s the best method? Many players tend to do ‘random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[814,816,815,813],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournamentrules","tag-desperate-ravings","tag-grip-of-chaos","tag-mana-crypt","tag-tyrant-of-discord","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}