With the Battle for Zendikar update, we made some changes to the Drawing Extra Cards infraction, and having seen it in action for a couple weeks, it’s clear that the change isn’t as clear as we’d hoped it would be, and that lack of clarity is causing confusion. More problematically, that confusion is getting in […]
Category: Policy
The Forbidden Look
We have a new mulligan rule. It’s sweet! There does come with it one downside, though. Historically, some players take a mulligan by pulling cards off the top of their library to “see what they would have drawn,” and that’s not compatible with the new mulligan system. I used to joke with players “Don’t take […]
BFZ Policy Changes
[cets_callout_box style=’yellow’ align=’right’ title=’The New Docs’]IPG | MTR [/cets_callout_box] The Battle for Zendikar has been unleashed on us, and that means it’s time for an Eldrazi-sized policy update! Just kidding; it’s not as big as the last one, but there are still a few things to… process. Ahem. When we released the Origins update, we […]
Magic Origins Policy Changes
[cets_callout_box style=’yellow’ align=’right’ title=’The New Docs’]IPG | MTR [/cets_callout_box] There’s a lot of changes in this IPG. It’s not as scary as it looks. Heck, if we can survive Vegas/Utrecht/Chiba, this should be cake. There’s one major policy change, a reflowing of the whole guide to focus on infraction identification, and then the usual miscellaneous […]
Lay of the Land
There seems to be a little confusion about the new on-camera layout rules for PTs and GPs, and a bunch of it is coming because of misunderstanding over what it means to be a rule. While these are “rules”, they aren’t rules in the same sense as the contents of the Comprehensive Rules. They set […]
DTK Policy Changes – For Players
We’re making a small change to the rules for missed triggers and how they are acknowledged in order to make them flow a little better. Right now, the requirement is that the trigger be acknowledged some time between it triggering and having impact on the game state. That works well most of the time, but […]
DTK Policy Changes – For Judges
[cets_callout_box style=’yellow’ align=’right’ title=’The New Docs’]IPG | MTR [/cets_callout_box] There are a few changes to the IPG today that are worth highlighting, including a small change to missed triggers. Yikes! In some rare corner cases, our default fixes produce unintuitive results. For example, I have an effect that tells me to draw and discard. I […]
L2 Maintenance Requirements
I’m thrilled to present a guest post from Spanish judge extraordinaire with an explanation of the annual L2 maintenance requirements. Take it away Alfonso! Hello! A few months ago, the L2 definition changed. This change happened to ensure that L2 judges are capable of Head Judging a Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier (PPTQ) to the standard […]
FTR Policy Changes
[cets_callout_box style=’yellow’ align=’right’ title=’The New Docs’]IPG | MTR [/cets_callout_box] Apologies for the delay in getting this out. I came down with a nasty flu yesterday and that kept me off the internets. Happily it waited until after the prereleases to, um, manifest. The good news is that there’s not a lot in the new documents […]
Changing Morph Handling in the IPG
The TLDR: Effective immediately, failing to reveal your morph is now a Warning. A non-morph played as a morph, unless it’s caught by the player almost immediately, remains a Game Loss. That’s it. Fuller explanation below. Boy, this one was unexpectedly complicated. The no-reveal problem took us by surprise. A lot of us were judging […]