Judge's slogan is "keep it fun, keep it fair". In the workshop we will focus on fairness by helping you spotting cheaters. We will present some scenarios and we will analyse them together step by step. Your active participation is required.
Player A is at 8 life. He is facing a 3/3 cr and 5/5cr and indestructible 11/11. He has 3xW mana and 3Other. He plays wrath with 3W mana, A passes and when B attacks A taps WW to play Journey. B then discovers that we couldn’t play wrath. What are you doing?
Twist: Player A called the error himself
PPTQ: Judge needs to inquire about life total, round of the tournament(last, player A is win and in), number of games played(1st), player’s past–he is competitive, but hadn’t done anything in the past. How familiar with the cards. Are they rushing? In case he is questioned I want to have a clear change in attitude when he is asked easy questions (e.g. how many years are you playing mtg) comparing on questions like have you cheated?
Failure to agree on reality
Cast thoughtseize, take counterspell, see mana leak
Have lingering souls, and random, + 5lands.Cast murderous not tapping
Opponent casts manaleak after 3’’ A pays 3 Judge!
FNM.Player A is arguing that he has not tapped any mana so he could do what he did. Upon inquires Player A was always tapping lands before casting spells.
Player A was at 14 points. Player B had a Blood Artist and 4 more creatures. He spent a good amount of time thinking and then something that can be freely translated to: “ok it works” then casts a Falkenrath Aristocrat and then attacks with everything saying: “attack you for 8 and I have 6 creatures, 8+6creatures=14dmg”. Player A thought it over and conceded.
Player B admits that he knew that he was one dmg short. This is mirepresentation of free information and D
Player A (AP) casts Lightning Berserker using dash, attacks, passes turn, forgets to return dashed creature to his hand. Player B (NAP) notices and remains silent. Player B does nothing relevant during his turn, passes turn back to A. In A's turn, he attacks with Lightning Berserker, and after no blocks are declared, pumps it with all red mana he has available, using Lightning Berserker's “firebreathing” ability - at this point NAP (Player B) calls a judge and asks to resolve the delayed trigger of dash immediately and return Lightning Berserker to AP's hand.
Upon investigation, both players confirm that this is what happened, and the trigger was truly forgotten by AP. NAP, on the other hand, admits that he knew about the trigger, but since he doesn't have to call a judge for it, he didn't - and waited for a situation where more advantage could be gained, like during next attack (which is now).
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This is allowed, no penalty
During a deckcheck judge notices that all lands and 3cr in a u control deck are bend so they are clearly identifiable from the top of the deck and the side.
FNM. Player A a new and mostly casual player. taps permanents in a very aggressive way, always bending them. It is not cheating just a marked cards with upgrade to GL
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During a beginning of the round deckcheck it was noticed that player failed to disideboard.
GPT. Judge should inquire if the card was match specific or a generic card. It is the later. Then judge should inquire if the found card is generally better than the old card. It is. Then we need to question him and find out that he is a sketchy player that has presented overpowered decks in prereleases. DQ