If you drop a card while shuffling, whether it is your deck or your opponent’s, judges will treat it as if you looked at it.\u00a0 Judges have no way to adequately determine whether you could have seen the card, so they will assume that you did.\u00a0 Even if the judge believes you when you say you could not have seen the card, your opponent may not!\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The result is that you will receive a warning for looking at extra cards.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
There are other things that can earn warnings for looking at extra cards as well.\u00a0 For example, looking at 8 cards for a resolved Summoning Trap is also looking at extra cards.\u00a0 Be aware that these will count along with dropping cards for purposes of escalating penalties.<\/p>\n
Looking at extra cards is usually not a critical issue.\u00a0 Judges know this is bound to happen; you shuffle many times during a tournament and often cards or sleeves may stick together.\u00a0 This is why the second time this happens you will also receive a warning.\u00a0 After a second incident, be careful!\u00a0 Each subsequent occurrence will earn you a game loss.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Rules Tip was submitted by David Hibbs, a level 2 judge from League City, Texas, United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you drop a card while shuffling, whether it is your deck or your opponent’s, judges will treat it as if you looked at it.\u00a0 Judges have no way to adequately determine whether you could have seen the card, so they will assume that you did.\u00a0 Even if the judge believes you when you say […]<\/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":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}