Funny enough, something like this came up in the very first FNM my little shop held. A player was goldfishing with his Vampire deck between rounds, and a spectator thought that he\u2019d switched decks from his Elf deck that was seen round 1.<\/p>\n
In a Constructed tournament, no matter what the format is, you pick a deck when you show up and you stick with it. Once you\u2019ve handed in your decklist (if your event uses one), you\u2019re using that deck for the whole event, even if you decide it\u2019s a bad choice later on. You can\u2019t make little changes, you can\u2019t tweak your land base, you have to present your deck exactly as listed on your Decklist at the beginning of each match. You can sideboard after game 1, but only with the 0-15 cards listed in your decklist\u2019s sideboard. If your deck doesn\u2019t match your list, you\u2019ll get a penalty for that, and have to fix it.<\/p>\n
This all holds true even when the event is not using registered decklists (like most tournaments at your local game store). The “decklist” is invisible, but it was set when you presented your deck to your round 1 opponent. Altering your deck from that “list” later in the event is not allowed. If you’re so unhappy with the deck that you don’t want to play with it anymore, simply drop from the event and play some casual games with a different deck instead.<\/p>\n
Today’s tournament tip written by Trevor Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Funny enough, something like this came up in the very first FNM my little shop held. A player was goldfishing with his Vampire deck between rounds, and a spectator thought that he\u2019d switched decks from his Elf deck that was seen round 1. In a Constructed tournament, no matter what the format is, you pick […]<\/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":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournamentrules","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}