Looking for a judge to answer this question and the judge forums kept crashing so I'm asking here. A game of commander with 6 players in it. Player A cast Council's Judgment and the votes are chosen. The final vote is a tie between three permanents one of them being Lightning Greaves. There are multiples of the greaves on the board. Player A states that since the Judgment doesn't target it just gets all the copies of lightning greaves like Maelstrom Pulse as an example. I think it's clearly wrong but majority of the players agreed to the ruling and let it go. So is player A correct or do the votes have to be chosen for a specific player's lightning greaves to get exiled?
Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
You aren't voting for "Lightning Greaves" in a general way. You're voting for one single, specific Lightning Greaves on the battlefield. Targeting is not the only game action that identifies a single specific object, voting and choosing are also as specific as the effect's wording requires. It won't work on "all things with that name" unless the effect explicitly says so.
In your scenario, a 6-players game had three permanents tied on the voting, so each permanent was voted twice. Did the two players who voted for Greaves indicated which Greaves they were voting for? Then that Greaves, and no other, will be destroyed along with the two other permanents. If they indicated different Greaves, then the voting was actually 2-2-1-1 and no Greaves will be destroyed. If they weren't specific on which Greaves was being voted on, then their votes weren't valid in the first place, you must do it again.
Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
You aren't voting for "Lightning Greaves" in a general way. You're voting for one single, specific Lightning Greaves on the battlefield. Targeting is not the only game action that identifies a single specific object, voting and choosing are also as specific as the effect's wording requires. It won't work on "all things with that name" unless the effect explicitly says so.
In your scenario, a 6-players game had three permanents tied on the voting, so each permanent was voted twice. Did the two players who voted for Greaves indicated which Greaves they were voting for? Then that Greaves, and no other, will be destroyed along with the two other permanents. If they indicated different Greaves, then the voting was actually 2-2-1-1 and no Greaves will be destroyed. If they weren't specific on which Greaves was being voted on, then their votes weren't valid in the first place, you must do it again.