{"id":57,"date":"2015-10-04T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-10-19T04:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T04:18:57","slug":"battle-for-zendikar-expeditions-tournament-organiser-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/2015\/10\/04\/battle-for-zendikar-expeditions-tournament-organiser-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Zendikar Expeditions &#8211; Tournament Organiser FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some rules about sanctioned events, and how expeditions work in limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>EDIT: update for the <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/sealed-pool-procedure-update-starting-gp-sydney-and-gp-madison-2015-10-08\">new deck swap procedure<\/a>, which fixes lots of problems in sealed!<br \/>\nIn <strong>sealed,<\/strong> there&#8217;s a new process where each player opens all of their boosters, with the person sitting across from them watching to verify. All those cards, including any expeditions opened, belong to the player who opened them. Once all the packs are opened players will register the pool of the person sitting across from them, and then hand the cards back. <strong>The cards are the property of the person who opened them<\/strong>, if the person who is registering the cards tries to take them that is theft and should be handled as such.<br \/>\nThis process is used at <strong>all competitive REL sealed events<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Feedback? Anything I&#8217;ve missed?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expeditions are all playable in limited<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They replace a common in packs, taking the &#8220;foil slot&#8221;. They are part of the pack and should be drafted as such.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make sure your players know they&#8217;re valuable, both so new players know to pick them and so they don&#8217;t get ripped off selling\/trading one when they do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In sealed expeditions are part of the pool and should be kept\u00a0with it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Players can drop at any time with all product they correctly have. That means if a player opens (or is passed) an expedition in draft they can take all the cards in that pack, all cards they&#8217;ve currently drafted, and any unopened packs they have. They\u2019re dropped from the event and don\u2019t play any matches.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a part of the tournament rules and you can&#8217;t override it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If players are doing this repeatedly and causing disruption you can refuse them entry to future drafts, but that can be heavy handed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you ignore the rules while running a sanctioned event Wizards may revoke your ability to run them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keep what you draft!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If players keep everything they pick they get to first pick, and thus keep, any expedition they open. This solves all the problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The player who drafts it is going to be the one who ends up with it, so they\u2019re going to look after it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Worst case they&#8217;re missing a Gideon or something they pass but they&#8217;re probably going to be pretty happy with the expedition. If they really want they can still drop as above, that&#8217;ll be rare though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Redrafting Rares<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If this is the common practice at your store I strongly recommend excluding expeditions from it, i.e. redrafting all non-expedition rares at the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take this opportunity to think about how you run drafts, there are going to be expeditions in drafts for ~7 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Things you can\u2019t do<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let players \u201crebuy\u201d packs if they open an expedition. Nope, not allowed in a sanctioned event.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Give players proxies so they don&#8217;t have to play valuable cards in their deck. Proxies are <strong>only\u00a0<\/strong>for cards that are damaged when opened, or become damaged through limited play, so that they don&#8217;t appear as marked in that event. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to play my expensive expedition and risk damaging it!&#8221; isn&#8217;t a reason to give a player a proxy, perhaps they&#8217;d like to buy some sleeves instead?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, if you ignore the rules while running a sanctioned event Wizards may revoke your ability to run them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In unsanctioned events, do whatever you like. But be aware that players have expectations about how things work, let them know explicitly if things are different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rules for sanctioned events exist for good reasons, mostly related to fun, fairness, and event integrity. Make sure you understand why they exist and the consequences of not following them before you deviate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some rules about sanctioned events, and how expeditions work in limited. EDIT: update for the new deck swap procedure, which fixes lots of problems in sealed! In sealed, there&#8217;s a new process where each player opens all of their boosters, with the person sitting across from them watching to verify. 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