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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?<\/p>\n

In Magic it is Great Comfort to Have a Companion<\/h1>\n

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I’ll start with my usual advice: Don’t Panic. I’ve seen some fears of constant deckchecks and impossible enforcement. We had discussions with the Design team way back when these were in early development, and one of the things that they wanted to make sure was that these would be functional in paper play without being a drain on judges.<\/p>\n

The good news is that, with one exception we’ll get to in a minute, none of the companion cards are abusable. They have conditions that become immediately apparent if you violate them. You don’t need to run a verification whenever a companion is revealed; there’s no possible advantage to running violating cards. <\/p>\n

But, that doesn’t mean that Companion won’t be a potential issue, because there will be times where someone messes up. They don’t know what the converted mana cost of a split card is, or accidentally sideboard into a configuration that doesn’t match the companion. So, there are updates to the IPG to handle them.<\/p>\n

Figuring that out was an interesting challenge that broke down into two subproblems:<\/p>\n