{"id":4127,"date":"2014-03-04T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:51:21","slug":"shuffle-before-you-sleeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/03\/shuffle-before-you-sleeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuffle before you sleeve."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before sleeving your deck, shuffle it first! While you&#8217;re at it, also shuffle your sleeves. This will be sure your deck doesn&#8217;t become marked due to variations in your sleeves, especially when you are combining sleeves from two different packages. You don&#8217;t want a game loss because your lands&#8217; sleeves ended up being a little shorter.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty for Marked Cards (when determined to be unintentional) is normally a warning, but there is also this clause in the Infraction Procedure Guide: &#8220;The Head Judge has the option to upgrade this penalty to a Game Loss if he or she believes that a player noticing the pattern of markings would clearly compromise the integrity of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Tournament Tip written by Darren Gamble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffling your deck and your sleeves before sleeving is a great way to make sure you don&#8217;t end up with patterned markings from sleeves of slightly different lengths.<\/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-4127","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\/4127","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=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}