{"id":1108,"date":"2019-04-29T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2019-06-29T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:02:09","slug":"policy-changes-for-war-of-the-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2019\/04\/29\/policy-changes-for-war-of-the-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Changes for War of the Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;yellow&#8217; align=&#8217;right&#8217; title=&#8217;The New Docs&#8217;]<a title=\"IPG\" href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_ipg_3may19_en.pdf\">IPG<\/a> | <a title=\"MTR\" href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_mtr_3may19_en.pdf\">MTR<\/a><br \/>\n[\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think with how big War of the Spark is, as culmination of years of story, we&#8217;d have a big policy update to go with it. Not so! This is the smallest update in the history of the IPG. The changes are on the level of things I&#8217;d usually debate whether they were worth mentioning in the Quick Hits.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ll put up a block we can pretend is the detailed explanations, then skip to the Quick Hits. Then we&#8217;ll go back to fighting undead on the streets of Ravnica and return for a larger update with Core 20.<\/p>\n<h2>A Cat Picture Where There&#8217;d Usually Be Some Big Announcements<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_1509.jpg\" alt=\"Robuchon\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Quick Hits<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you play a Swamp and one of your teammates immediately jumps in with &#8220;no, play the Island&#8221;, that still qualifies for reversing the decision. In general, we regard teammates as one entity when thinking about communication (and slow play!) so it&#8217;s OK to have them helping out.<\/li>\n<li>We did the big update around Bribery last time, but we missed the line in player requirements that said players needed to report those offenses. That&#8217;s been removed.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently some people believed that only one player could perform a pile shuffle per game. But, each player should have a chance to do a deck count, so it&#8217;s been clarified to a pile shuffle each.<\/li>\n<li>CPV requires an in-game decision to be relevant, which makes it clear that calling a judge is not a relevant decision.<\/li>\n<li>Looking at Extra Cards applies to accidentally flipping over an opponent&#8217;s sideboard card as well. There&#8217;s no fix, but you do issue the Warning.<\/li>\n<li>In the extremely unlikely situation that you&#8217;re giving out two game losses to a player, they combine into a single one.<\/li>\n<li>We fixed a typo in the JAR and cleaned up a sentence. Really, I&#8217;m scraping here! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you in a few months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;yellow&#8217; align=&#8217;right&#8217; title=&#8217;The New Docs&#8217;]IPG | MTR [\/cets_callout_box] You&#8217;d think with how big War of the Spark is, as culmination of years of story, we&#8217;d have a big policy update to go with it. Not so! This is the smallest update in the history of the IPG. The changes are on the level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"language":[9],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}