Rulings of note Underpaying a spell AP controls 7 lands. He casts a morph, then a Sultai Scavenger, tapping 2 Swamps and exiling 3 cards only (while the spell costs 5B). As he passes the turn with two lands untapped, allowing him to activate Dazzling Ramparts, the opponent involves us. After […]
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GP Milan HJ Report
Rulings of Note Outside Assistance ? The situation During Extra turn#1, AP takes his sideboarding notes and starts looking at them. Opponent calls a judge, who (correctly) rules a Match Loss (by himself since he is L3 and we empower all L3+s at GPs to issue GL/ML). It is appealed. Here’s the discussion: Me: […]
GP New Jersey 2014
Watch the Game, see the cheats A guilty pause If you’ve read my GP LA report, you may have a feeling of déjà-vu During GP NJ, a judge was watching a game and witnessed the following: AP casts a creature. NAP says “counter this” while pulling a card out of his hand. At […]
GP Los Angeles 2014
Rulings of note Reversed Bribery? During game 3, AP draws an additional card. NAP tells him: I’ll call the judge, or do you want us to ID? My investigation revealed that NAP knows very well that the penalty for DEC is a Game Loss, that the situation is, as he correctly analyzed, a […]