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 […]
Category: Policy
DTK Policy Changes – For Judges
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 draw into an empty hand and play a land. […]
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
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 that needs explaining. A few tweaks for clarity here […]
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 […]
How to Avoid Game Losses with Morph
[EDIT – note that some of the policy in here is outdated. See here for more recent policy.] Reveal your morphs. OK, that probably wasn’t what you came here for, though it is the best answer (and one I announced over and over at the PT). But, looking at some other ways in which a […]
KTK Policy Changes
Before we dive into the document update, an important announcement about how we handle morph at Competitive REL: In the past, we’ve applied a Game Loss for not revealing morphs at the end of the game, and have said if you lost the game, the Game Loss applied to the next game. That was to […]
M15 Policy Changes
IPG | MTR There’s no update for players; no policy changed that affects them, though we’re officially taking a dim view of players who create a toxic play environment. Carry on being awesome at Magic tournaments and you don’t have anything new to worry about. There are a few implementation changes to talk about, though, […]
Conspiracy Policy Changes – For Players and Judges
MTR Surprise! We normally don’t issue updates for the summer special set, but, well, this one’s really special and required us to make a couple of MTR tweaks. Obviously, cards with the Conspiracy type aren’t legal in Vintage (and, by extension, Commander) or Legacy, and the lists have been updated to reflect that. Also, it’s […]
Of Course They Do, It Must Be Obvious
We’ve had the new decklist rules out for about a month now, and I’m seeing some evidence that judges are taking it further than is supported by the IPG. The idea is not “oh yeah, I can see how the player might have made that error”. Players are still responsible for filling out a clear […]