A collection of good practices, fun study methods and teaching techniques for judges who are looking to level up or mentor others.

1. Pedantic Learning
A collection of good practices, fun study methods and
teaching techniques for judges who are looking to level
up or mentor others.

2. Introductions are in order
Jonas, L2 from Leuven (BE)
NOT a teacher
Love to learn/teach

3. Great Teacher’s Decree
● What is mentoring?
● “Teaching is hard, studying is boring”
● Goals:
○ Make teaching easy
○ Make studying fun
● Direct vs Remote

4. How to start mentoring?
● Find candidates
○ Area Captains
○ L1: First line of contact
○ L2+:
■ Talk to judges, TO, players …
■ Use candidates spreadsheet
● Email / Facebook / Phone

5. What L1 judges should know
● Comprehensive Rules:
○ Rules Advisor (Test)
○ Turn Structure
○ Casting a spell
○ State Based Actions
○ Abilities (static, triggered, activated)
● MTR / JAR

6. What L2 judges should know
● Comprehensive Rules:
○ Interaction of replacement effects
○ Interaction of continuous effects
○ End step / Cleanup step
○ Linked abilities
○ ...
● IPG

7. LET’S PLAY!

8. Limited Resources?
Remote
MTGO
Annotated IPG
Annotated MTR
Knowledge Pool
JudgeCast
Mystical Tutor
Judge Classes (on Wiki)
Direct
Deck checks
Challenge with questions
Conferences
Judge Tower / ASAP

9. Day of Judgement: the exam
● Make sure candidate is/feels ready to test
● Debrief:
○ Doubts/questions first
○ Mistakes after
○ Explain underlying rule or policy

10. PASSED!
Explain next steps
Write review
Inform Area Captain
Introduce to community
Follow up
Judge together

11. FAILED :(
Schedule reassessment
Identify why / what went wrong
Set goals
Focus on getting ready for take 2
Inform Area Captain

12. Final words
● Make it a natural approach
● Share experiences/practices
● I’d like to hear from you!