Hello judges, i have a doubt about ad nauseam.
Imagine i have children of korlis in table, then i use ad nauseam so i start to lose life. If i dont stop using the ability of ad nauseam and low to 0 life or llike 1 life can i sacrifice my children of korlis so i dont die?

pd: srry for my lenguage the english its not my first idiom.

For context I've been a mtg player for quite some time. I have taken up a job in a store that sells magic. What I want to know, is there a judge programme still? I have looked for resources but seemingly there isn't anything on wotc. Can someone let me know what's going on? I should probably point out I'm in the UK.

This article might be outdated but I was under the impression that when creating an account the "JudgeApps" I would have access to pratice exams

https://blogs.magicjudges.org/o/judge-testing/

In a recent tourney, i had been playing Pauper with Dredge against Mono U delver.

My opponent had a tormod's crypt on the field, and i cast exhume. My opponent responded by activating tormod's crypt. I replied with "it resolves" and by moving my graveyard to the exile zone, then i said "in response" and used Swampcycling on my Troll of Khazan Dum.

This is where the trouble started. My opponent argued that the troll would be exiled by the tormod's crypt's ability, since i was swampcycling "in response". I argued that i had in fact swampcycled "in response" to my own exhume, still on the stack, thus an argument ensued.

In the end, the situation resolved in my favour, although it did leave me a bit doubtful. Was my terminology confusing or incorrect? Was my opponent in the right?

Edit: thank you all for the detailed answers, they were immensely helpful.

I’m just over here trying to maintain game integrity when someone hides their brainstorm under a pile and then claims I’m the one breaking the game state. How am I supposed to foresee that their cards are now playing a game of hide-and-seek? Let’s just hope the judges don’t also decide to punish me for thinking I can read minds.

This is one I'm just a bit confused on. Why does Cascade, as a mechanic, say "that costs less" rather than "with lesser mana value"?

Any cards propr to sylvan libraries ability need to be distinguishable in their hand. My question is that can they be distinguishable in such a way that they're not distinguishable to an opponent. For example could you put every single card in hand under some color coded dice and you know which color dice you've drawn this turn. Alternatively could you flip them upside down while in hand while using sleeves that make it hard to tell they're upside down?

Like lets say you brainstorm on upkeep put the 3 cards you drew upside down shuffled your hand put two cards you drew off brainstorm back on top of the library cracked a fetchland then sylvan library activates you draw 3 you put the upside down card from brainstorm earlier back and one of the cards drawn from sylvan library back?

Reason I'm suspecting it may not be required to be distinguishable to opponents is that on official digital platforms its not distinguishable there.

Hey I am a veteran player and have done ton of unofficial judging for years across a variety of events. There is a new LGs in my community that I want to help support by becoming a judge. But by golly, I’m struggling to find the best way to do it now. I’m in Harrisonburg, Virginia in the US. Thanks!

Hi. I'm wondering if I can edit a pairing method after I have pressed start or do I have to end tournament and have my players sign in again? Which is what I normally do if I didn't enter the right pairing method and didn't notice. Thanks in advance for any help.

arom plays a land, tap hazoret and say "attack with hazoret"

noel "you have two cards in hand, hazoret cant attack"

arom "ok, so i will tap my lands activate hazoret ability to discard, now hazoret attacks"

noel "actually since we are in the declare attack phase, you missed the oportunity to do that"

arom "but i was proposing a shortcut, since the declaration of attackers was invalid game is rewinded to main phase"

judge is called, whats the rulling? if regular or competitive it changes rulling?

Hey,

The owner of my LGS mana weaves and is teaching other players to do it. I don’t wanna be that guy but it’s simply just cheating right? They aren’t sufficiently shuffling their deck afterwards either. I want to know what rule exactly says this is illegal in case it comes up and I have to point to it.

I don’t know where to find it in the official MTG rules so if someone knows where I could that would be awesome. TIA

The change is found in this article from Wizards.

From what I figure, there won't be much change, correct?

I was reading through the MTR and IPG and I noticed two sections that seemed to lead to an unintuitive conclusion. MTR 1.11 says:

If spectators believe they have observed a rules or policy violation, they are encouraged to alert a judge as soon as possible. At Regular or Competitive Rules Enforcement Level, spectators are permitted to ask the players to pause the match while they alert a judge.

IPG 2.1 defines a missed trigger as an infraction. Putting these two together, doesn't that mean it would be legal and beneficial to have a friend spectate your games and remind you of your triggers? Usually a judge won't intervene if you accidentally miss a beneficial trigger, but there's nothing stopping a spectator from intervening, since missing a trigger is technically a policy violation, albeit one with no penalty. Probably a minor benefit overall since it's usually not difficult to remember your triggers, but it would be strictly better nonetheless. There also doesn't seem to be anything stopping the spectator from only selectively reminding you of your triggers and letting your opponent miss theirs, since they have a right, but not an obligation, to alert a judge.

Do you have to use the double face helper cards for sanctioned events or can you use a proxy to represent delver of secrets as long as you have the card in your deck box?

Edit: Thank you for the quick responses. Appreciate the help.

Our store is hosting a Duskmourn Limited RCQ this October. We were planning on running 5 rounds of swiss as attendance will likely be between 16 and 24 players, however I saw some people in a twitch chat recently talking about how limited RCQs are only 4 rounds now. I could have definitely misunderstood what they were talking about but I figured I'd ask considering this would reduce the amount of time we would have to spend servicing the tournament. Thanks

I’ve judge a couple of events now (TO for local cEDH tournament with 20+ players) by firstly shadowing a more experienced judge but also head judged the last event.

I’ve mostly used the resources over at Judge Academy to help build up my knowledge to help me but with the website going down at the end of the month, is there an alternative?

I’d like to continue my studies and help others build up their confidence to also judge but there doesn’t seem to be any other resources out there that help!

TIA

There was a vintage tournament at my local game store which is a proxy friendly event and a fellow judge of mine was asked if it was OK that they used pen on token instead of sharpie since they were told at a different game store if they wrote on tokens for proxies they must use sharpie. My friend said yes and asked me today if they made the right call? I said I wasn't sure but I'm pretty sure it was ok since I have never heard of any problems. I know sometimes at higher level events judges will issue proxies (basic lands that are written on) for curled foils and was curious if there are rules/guidelines for proxies.

Hey everyone! I'm going to be judging my first RCQ that is being held at my lgs. The format will be modern. I was wondering if anyone had any tips for preparing for the RCQ. Also any common interactions or judge calls that I might experience. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I’m from the UK and interested in becoming an MTG Judge. Now that JudgeAcademy is dead, is there any replacement in the UK?? I know about Judge Foundry for the US & Canada, but can’t find any info on anything like that here. Does anyone know anything about how to start?

Howdy ya'll, new here!

I saw a post on the MTG Judge forums about how their copy of the rules is out of date, so I decided to try to be helpful and fix that.

I'm here to introduce mtg-html-rules; a piece of software that can take a copy of the .txt rules from the Wizards website and convert it into a nicer HTML document. Here is the source code for the generator for those that are interested.

Link to the current version of the rules

Features that you all might care about:

• Has HTML anchors for linking directly to a rule, like this
• Integrated search (I'd give it a 5/10 at the moment, it's on my list to improve, but slightly better than Ctrl+F)
• Mana symbols are converted to actual mana symbols, so it shows a red mana symbol instead of {R}
• Entirely self-contained in that one HTML file. You can right click -> Save As the page and all of the features will work, even if you don't have any internet. It's also easy to add to an existing website because of this (and you're more than welcome to re-host it if you'd like). You can also share them via Discord or whatever because of that.
• References to other rules get converted to links (generally, there are some bugs detecting them). If a rule says "see rule 601.3", then 601.3 should be a link to rule 601.3. Example
• Automatically updated; this will pull a copy of the latest rules and publish them each time I commit, so it should be basically always up to date. It's on my list to add some logic to detect when new rules are published and auto-update itself, but I haven't done it yet.

Any feedback or bug reports would be much appreciated! I do know that the Glossary portion of the rules is missing. I do plan to add that, it just needs some parser work. They should be there sometime in the next week or two.

Preface: I run events at my store, but I am honestly newer to magic (2ish years). I am no official judge; I am simply the best we have on-hand. We run our events casually.

I have run many drafts, and generally they are pretty smooth sailing. This week, I had a particularly troubled pod. I send this message hoping you all might have seen a few more of these issues and have some hypotheses on what could have happened. Any opinions are welcome. Info below.

My trouble pod had multiple passing issues. The first was one mispass spotted in pack one. I was called over, I warned the table to be more careful of how they passed cards. I was called again as two more mispasses had occurred. From then until the end of the draft, we enforced each player must count their pack to ensure nothing else strange could happen. The players all agreed to run things as-is, so I did not force cards to be rolled back or redistribututed. Here is how the cards fell at the end of the draft. If there is no note, there was nothing remarkable about their draft. All drafters are semiregulars with no bad record until now, except one noted:

Player 1 (Legally Blind): Down 1 Card / Player 2 (New Drafter): Down 2 Cards / Player 3 / Player 4 / Player 5 / Player 6: Up 2 Cards / Player 7 / Player 8: Up 1 Card /

Is there a standard to find what solutions are likely? Has anyone seen this sort of thing before? If so, what did you do? And, so I know, for reported mispasses, what is the official rule, if there is any? Thanks again, all.

-Lucas.

Edited because I wasn't used to reddit formatting.

Hello I'm a young magic player who has been considering becoming a judge for a while now and am wondering, will I be taken seriously if I try to become a judge? Is there an age restriction?

Crosspost from r/magicTCG -

I have been an L1 since October of 2022 - Judge Academy ended their partnership with WOTC in October of 2023. I have tried several times to get my credentials linked with Judge Foundry (I understand they are also not officially recognized by WOTC) through their support form that they have linked on thier home page, but have recieved zero response.

Has anyone had better luck, or is there another method that might actually get a human response to my request?

Hi, I was playing a modern tournament in my LSG. First time with the deck, a jeskai control. It happens that I was using Subtlety the wrong way.

I thought it put target creature or planeswalker on the top or the bottom, not the target creature or pw spell on the top.

So, I played all the matches with that in mind and won. At the end, another person told me I was playing it wrong.

What should have happened? Should I be declassified or what?

Hi all,

Last Friday I accidentally shuffled my graveyard into my deck accidentally (it was past 1am) while playing at my local CEDH league and I immediately called a judge.

The judge asked if we knew which cards were in my graveyard, which was easy as I had only 6 cards in there. He then picked up my deck, took out the cards that were in my graveyard and asked us to resume the game, which I ended winning (had already a strong position with Magda).

One of the other players got really salty afterwards and has been pestering the judge about how I should have gotten a game loss and that he decided in my favour unfairly.

I want to ask if I should have lost the game, and if our judge did act properly. Thanks in advance.