{"id":428,"date":"2015-01-20T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/?p=428"},"modified":"2016-04-10T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T05:18:47","slug":"ftr-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2015\/01\/20\/ftr-policy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"FTR Policy Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;yellow&#8217; align=&#8217;right&#8217; title=&#8217;The New Docs&#8217;]<a href=\"http:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_ipg_23jan15_en.pdf\" title=\"IPG\">IPG<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_mtr_23jan15_en.pdf\" title=\"MTR\">MTR<\/a><br \/>\n[\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n<p>\nApologies 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.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that there&#8217;s not a lot in the new documents that needs explaining. A few tweaks for clarity here and there, the updated wording for errors a player couldn&#8217;t see that we discussed here previously, the missing penalty box for Bribery got restored (Word <b>really<\/b> doesn&#8217;t like those boxes), and I hear there were a few changes to some banlists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The one change worth mentioning is one that I think a lot of people have been expecting for a while &#8211; the play-draw rule that has been used for Premier event top 8s (highest after swiss chooses) is now the rule for all top 8s. It&#8217;s been a very successful tweak to the rules and rewards swiss play, so when we looked at the Premier restriction, there wasn&#8217;t a good reason not to extend it to other events.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some folks have been asking about rules for Sanctioned Casual FNMs. We experimented with working that into the MTR, and it was too complicated &#8211; you had to read through a lot of non-relevant details to pick out the ones that mattered. So, in the few weeks, we&#8217;ll be releasing a very short set of rules for Casual Sanctioned that is effectively the MTR for those events. It&#8217;s mostly anything goes with just a few basic limitations (no proxies!). I&#8217;ll talk about that some here once it gets released.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Sean Hunt and Riki Hayashi for their improvement suggestions. If you have anything you think needs tweaking, or ideas for how to make the rules better, don&#8217;t hesitate to drop me a line!<\/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] 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&#8217;s not a lot in the new documents [&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-428","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\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}