There’s three small changes to the MTR to talk about. Honestly, they’re probably confirming things you already thought were true, and the whole update is like eleven words long, so the ratio of change to explanation is going to be way off. The easy and obvious one is that your speed is status information. Everyone […]
Category: Policy
Policy Update for Duskmourn
IPG | MTR We’ve got some nice quality-of-life improvements, including two changes to the missed trigger rules, changes to a deck problem upgrade, and revisiting a ruling from a prior decade. None of that sounds remotely spooky, right? Just don’t split the party. Who Died and Made You Aristotle? We have two separate additions to […]
Policy Update for Outlaws of Thunder Junction
IPG | MTR This is not a wild-west sized update; it’s a few technical tweaks for clarity, fixing some edge cases, and one new piece of policy that’ll only be relevant for a few tournaments. Keeping it Out in the Open There’s a few tournaments that use open decklists, and in some cases, players physically […]
Policy Update for Murders at Karlov Manor
There’s a new update to the MTR and IPG, but I’m not going to go into it, since the only policy change is to note that Disguise and Morph are basically the same thing as far as policy is concerned. This should not be surprising. I’m trying to get another tweak in to make it […]
Policy Update for Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Well, the wait was shorter! This isn’t a big update. Some minor tweaks and a little cleanup. Hordes Can Be Sneaky, Too When we released the new definition of an authorized card with the last update, we were all fairly confident that there’s be a bunch of weird corner things we’d have to patch up […]
Policy Update for Wilds of Eldraine
Hey everyone, is this thing on? It’s been a while, and I’m sure a lot of folks were wondering what happened. Obviously tournaments shut down during the pandemic, with lots of uncertainty around when they might finally return. When they did… it turned out that policy handled (almost) everything that happened in the interim pretty […]
Cryptic Spires
Well, that’s a little cryptic. Cryptic Spires is a card that requires you to make a choice during deck construction. While we have some precedence for this with Conspiracy, this is the first time that multiple cards in the deck with the same name could have different choices made for them. Usually, the choice is […]
Policy Update for Core Set 2021
There’s no update to talk about. No IPG changes, and the MTR is just the usual housekeeping (and the removal of references to Planeswalker Points). So have a cat picture and we’ll see what there is to talk about with Zendikar Rising!
Policy Update for Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
There’s only one thing to talk about this update, but it’s something I know a lot of you have been waiting for. How will Companions work in paper play? In Magic it is Great Comfort to Have a Companion I’ll start with my usual advice: Don’t Panic. I’ve seen some fears of constant deckchecks and […]
Policy Update for Theros Beyond Death
There’s not a lot of changes to worry about this time. No TBD jokes even, promise! So, we’ll jump straight to: Quick Hits * Last update, we clarified that the upgrade path for Tournament Errors only considered previously issued Warnings (as opposed to previously issued Game Losses). We moved the same language over to Game […]