{"id":4445,"date":"2014-10-28T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:49:01","slug":"tournament-tuesday-common-courser-of-kruphix-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/10\/tournament-tuesday-common-courser-of-kruphix-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament Tuesday: Common Courser of Kruphix Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to our crash course(r) on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Courser+of+Kruphix&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Courser of Kruphix<\/a>! Since today is Tuesday, we&#8217;ll be covering some IPG and MTR things about Courser of Kruphix, rather than just your normal Comprehensive Rules stuff. Mainly, we&#8217;ll be talking about the more common mistakes people make with Courser, and what the rules say has to happen when those mistakes are made.<\/p>\n<p>First, we&#8217;ll talk about forgetting to reveal your new card. Most commonly this happens after a shuffle effect, where you get your deck back from your opponent and just forget to flip the new top card over. If it&#8217;s caught within a few moments, or within that turn, there&#8217;s no real problem. However, let&#8217;s say you crack a fetch at the end of your opponent&#8217;s turn, and forget to reveal before your turn. What we&#8217;ll do there is reveal the new top card, and issue you a Warning, for Game Play Error- Game Rule Violation. Your opponent will also receive a warning for Failure to Maintain Gamestate, since they didn&#8217;t notice the problem either! It gets a little hinky if you draw before you reveal, there&#8217;s no way for us to &#8216;fix&#8217; that. It&#8217;s not as big a deal as it is with Morph or the like, since you&#8217;re not revealing the cards to make sure something is done legally, so it&#8217;s still just a Warning. A word of advice, though- those warnings pile up! After two Game Play Error infractions (except Failure to Maintain- that should never, ever be upgraded) during an event, they&#8217;ll stop being Warnings and start being Game Losses. So play carefully!<\/p>\n<p>The other common error with Courser is the opposite- revealing a card when you don&#8217;t need to! The most common way you&#8217;ll see this happening is that Courser will end up leaving the battlefield, whether it&#8217;s destroyed or exiled or just bounced back to the hand, and the Courser&#8217;s controller will forget to turn their library&#8217;s top card face down. Again, we can give a little leeway if you notice it later in that same turn and no new information has been gained, but if you reveal a NEW top card, we&#8217;ve got to penalize that. The infraction is also a Game Play Error, but this specific one is called Looking at Extra Cards. Like a GRV, we give a Warning to the player who goofed, and give Failure to Maintain to the opponent. UNLIKE GRV, we have a &#8216;fix&#8217; for this- we shuffle the deck! More specifically, we shuffle the random portion. If any cards have their positions known (for example, because of a previous Scry), we set those cards aside first so they can be placed in their &#8216;proper&#8217; position once the rest of the deck is randomized. Then we randomize the part that ought to be random, put the &#8216;known&#8217; cards back, and remind the players to be more careful!<\/p>\n<p>Courser is a great card, but know how to use it or you might end up costing yourself some games. Knowledge is Power!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Trevor Nunez <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to our crash course(r) on ! Since today is Tuesday, we&#8217;ll be covering some IPG and MTR things about Courser of Kruphix, rather than just your normal Comprehensive Rules stuff. Mainly, we&#8217;ll be talking about the more common mistakes people make with Courser, and what the rules say has to happen when those [&hellip;]<\/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":[148,17,13],"tags":[1096],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-staticabilities","category-tournamentrules","tag-courser-of-kruphix","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}