{"id":3170,"date":"2013-04-09T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:55:24","slug":"you-have-the-right-to-ask-a-judge-for-oracle-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/04\/you-have-the-right-to-ask-a-judge-for-oracle-text\/","title":{"rendered":"You have the right to ask a judge for Oracle text."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Illusionary Mask'><\/p><br \/>\nTournaments might seem intimidating. I mean, you&#8217;ve got to record your matches on slips of paper, all these people in black are handing out penalties, everything seems so official. But it doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t want you to have fun! We also most certainly don&#8217;t expect you to remember what exactly each and every card does.<\/p>\n<p>This is where we come in. During a tournament, you are allowed to ask a judge for Oracle text on any card if you can provide a unique identifier (usually name, but if you can&#8217;t remember that, other attributes that identify the card clearly are also okay).<\/p>\n<p>Cards may have received errata for a variety of reasons: due to printing errors, to add\/change a creature type, or to update text on an old card that can&#8217;t actually function under current rules as it&#8217;s written. It could just be that a card is in a language you can&#8217;t read or has been altered in a way that you can&#8217;t read all the text.<\/p>\n<p>So any time you want to see the Oracle text for a card, for any reason (it doesn&#8217;t have to be a card that is currently visible in the game), just call a judge and ask. You can even ask away from the table, to avoid giving your opponent information.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Tournament Tip written by Eddie Cheung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tournaments might seem intimidating. I mean, you&#8217;ve got to record your matches on slips of paper, all these people in black are handing out penalties, everything seems so official. But it doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t want you to have fun! We also most certainly don&#8217;t expect you to remember what exactly each and every card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-3170","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\/3170","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}