Alright. Something went amiss at the last draft I attended and it's been bothering me since Friday, so I'd like to know what should have happened, what the official ruling or penalty would be (if any), and/or how some of you (judges) would've handled this.
Here's the ridiculous scenario...
I went to a draft and it was late so there were only two pods. My pod had 8 players. We drafted our cards, and during deck construction, one guy sitting at the far corner from me who was 3 positions to my left noticed his card pool was off and slightly short. Confused, the rest of us asked if he was sure, and he said yes. Then he mentioned that he's actually studying for his L2 or L3 (can't remember which) certification soon. The important thing is he's already at least a level 1 judge and always counts his card pool as a force of habit which I'll also be doing every draft from now on.
The store employee acting as the official judge comes over, we do a little investigation, and then realize that each of us is missing 1 or 2 cards. Perplexed, we start counting pack wrappers on the table, then realize that buddy to my right hadn't opened one of his boosters!! How this happened is beyond me, but he was either half asleep, mentally distracted, or did it on purpose because he wasn't intoxicated. Suffice it to say nobody really knew what to do, so some people started laughing and others looked visibly frustrated.
Now at that point I'm thinking that we should still draft that packs since I would've gotten 2nd (and 10th) pick and those cards could have a significant impact on my (and other) deck(s). But somehow, the general consensus at the table was to let it pass and that our pod just play shorthanded instead. Since nobody else made a big fuss of it, I decided not to as well because I didn't want to be "that guy". I don't know if it was pack 1 or pack 3, but I know it was a pack going left.
Now I ask...
What is the official procedure for such an unlikely, almost inconceivable blunder?
Was I entitled to those extra two cards and should the pack have gone around even after everything else was drafted?
Was omitting the pack from the pod entirely the right call on the judge's part?
Should the guy who neglected to open a pack (and isn't a new player who didn't know how to draft) have been disqualified or penalized in some way (I was thinking perhaps we should each get to draft a card or two from his pool depending on how many we were missing, and then he keep the unopened pack himself)?
Are players required to count their pools after drafting, and if not, is the onus on the judge to recommend it?
Like honestly, how do you forget to open one of three packs during a draft?! I swear I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I'm glad the guy in the corner counted his cards else the rest of may have never known, and dude to my right may have just saw the pack after and kept it to himself. It was so weird that I almost wonder now if he was strategically trying to keep a pack out of the mix for himself from the get-go, which I assume would be penalized as some sort of cheating right?
I'm just wondering if I got shortchanged because I felt like it, and what an experienced judge would do in this weird situation to correct the error because the whole experience really left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
Like honestly, how do you forget to open one of three packs during a draft?!
Usually, this happens because players start opening packs before ensuring that everybody else is ready. Some people might still be looking at their previous picks and then get passed a pack from their neighbor and reflexively jump into drafting again.
Just make sure everyone is prepared before going on to the next pack.
I have no idea on the official ruling but this seems to me like an easy fix. Lets say it was pack 2, that means he didn't get a pack 2 pick 1, the person to his right didn't get a pack 2 pick 2, and so on. So wouldn't you be able to just send the pack around? It would mess up some strategy with pick orders and such but everyone would be able to fill out their card pool.
Also, a question I'm wondering is, how did no one notice a hole in the cards being passed around? The way every store I've ever been at does it is everyone passes at the same time so that things stay organized and people don't start picking and passing from the wrong pack first.
Usually, this happens because players start opening packs before ensuring that everybody else is ready. Some people might still be looking at their previous picks and then get passed a pack from their neighbor and reflexively jump into drafting again.
Just make sure everyone is prepared before going on to the next pack.
The thing is, nobody jumped the gun on cracking packs. Everyone is careful not to do that where I was playing, and we were (or at least I thought and was sure we were) all finished drafting from packs 1 before packs 2 began, and then again with packs 3.
Regardless, I don't particularly care why this usually happens (elsewhere), because I've never seen this happen before, and I really thought this could be a first case scenario for such an oddity.
I'm more so concerned with whether or not the right call was made on the judge's part, because doing absolutely nothing in my opinion seems worse than improvising up a solution when one doesn't technically exist. Either way I don't expect this to ever happen again, but believe you me that if it does with the same individual, I'll make sure we find out if this is some obscure form of cheating to siphon a few extra cards from the pod's pool, and then deal with the situation as required.
I have no idea on the official ruling but this seems to me like an easy fix. Lets say it was pack 2, that means he didn't get a pack 2 pick 1, the person to his right didn't get a pack 2 pick 2, and so on. So wouldn't you be able to just send the pack around? It would mess up some strategy with pick orders and such but everyone would be able to fill out their card pool.
Also, a question I'm wondering is, how did no one notice a hole in the cards being passed around? The way every store I've ever been at does it is everyone passes at the same time so that things stay organized and people don't start picking and passing from the wrong pack first.
The pack definitely belonged to the guy sitting to my direct right, and it had to be pack 1 or pack 3 because I knew who was short one and who was short two cards. There was a foil basic land in the pool, but that doesn't upset the balance and everyone in the pod should still have the same number (42) of cards.
To answer you question, I'm not sure how nobody else noticed sooner, and I can't help but feel that to some extent we were all slightly negligent. It's a casual environment so some people in the pod were in conversation, and I suppose that I was so focused on what was the best pick from the two packs he passed me that I didn't realize one of them was a card short. Unfortunately not everyone passes a single pack in sync, and some experienced drafters tend to pass packs to the next person faster than the next person can draft, so a few piles may get "lined-up" for the next person to pick from. Then, because that person feels pressured to catch up to the pace of the pod, they may get distracted by the rushed feeling of fast picking and subsequently not notice the gap where one pile is short. Usually lined-up packs doesn't cause any issue, but this time it did.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
What is the official procedure for such an unlikely, almost inconceivable blunder?
There isn't one.
Was I entitled to those extra two cards and should the pack have gone around even after everything else was drafted?
It's debatable whether you were entitled to those cards. If everybody had followed the procedures spelled out in the Magic Tournament Rules, including you, then you would have gotten two more cards than you did get, but the rules don't say that you're entitled to a certain number of cards. As I said already, there is no official procedure in the rules, so there is no basis for saying that the leftover pack should or should not have been drafted.
Was omitting the pack from the pod entirely the right call on the judge's part?
We weren't there to investigate what happened, and there is no official guideline on what to do, so it's impossible to say whether the solution was correct or not. Leaving the situation alone is a possible solution, and since nobody spoke out against it, including yourself, it would have seemed like the best solution to the judge at the time.
Should the guy who neglected to open a pack (and isn't a new player who didn't know how to draft) have been disqualified or penalized in some way (I was thinking perhaps we should each get to draft a card or two from his pool depending on how many we were missing, and then he keep the unopened pack himself)?
If the judge determines in an investigation that the player deliberately stole from the draft, the player should be disqualified. Otherwise, there is no penalty at Regular REL for messing up a draft.
Are players required to count their pools after drafting, and if not, is the onus on the judge to recommend it?
The Magic Tournament Rules say this: "Players who receive an erroneous number of cards at any time must immediately notify a judge." Reading between the lines, you should actually count the cards you receive with each pass, in addition to counting the total number of cards you have drafted.
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Thanks CarstenHaese. I appreciate your insights. I didn't think there was an official procedure for such a thing but figured I'd ask just in case. I guess it was just an unfortunate learning experience for all of us, and I suppose I'll just have to accept that perhaps the rest of us on the pod should have been counting cards each pass, something that apparently nobody was doing. Also, from now on I'm definitely going to make sure I'm enchanted with an ocular halo during drafts so I can be more vigilant before I draw a card from each pack.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
Now at that point I'm thinking that we should still draft that packs since I would've gotten 2nd (and 10th) pick and those cards could have a significant impact on my (and other) deck(s). I don't know if it was pack 1 or pack 3, but I know it was a pack going left.
Thanks.
I'd like to hear your evidence of this, I think the hardest pack to remember to open would be the first one.
I've seen and experienced instances of calling for a pass to Pack 1 Pick 2 and I instinctively pick up my second booster pack and crack it. It seems like an auto reflex at some of the tables, I just keep an eye out for it, make sure they don't get to look at the pack too much and have them keep it off to the side.
If people wanted to draft cards out of my entire pool I'd likely protest and if they try to make it happen I'd just leave and never return.
This exact situation came up at an RTR draft at my store last year. Our solution was the same. We removed the pack from the table and played with our pools as-is.
Also, we get to tease the offending player about it months later. ;-)
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I'd like to hear your evidence of this, I think the hardest pack to remember to open would be the first one.
I've seen and experienced instances of calling for a pass to Pack 1 Pick 2 and I instinctively pick up my second booster pack and crack it. It seems like an auto reflex at some of the tables, I just keep an eye out for it, make sure they don't get to look at the pack too much and have them keep it off to the side.
Huh? I think you're confused or misread something above. Nobody cracked open any packs prematurely during the draft. A pack was opened late then wasn't included in the pool. I was sitting in seat/position 2. The guy to my direct right (in seat/position 1) never opened one of his three packs during the drafting process. While we were deck building, someone at the far end (in seat/position 5) realized his pool was short two cards, so the rest of us started counting ours. During this counting process the guy to my right was casually opening a pack (the pack he didn't open earlier) claiming (and apparently thinking) it was a prize pack of his from a previous draft when the guy in seat 8 asked him "Where did that pack come from?". Now even if that were true and said pack was his (prize pack from whenever), I couldn't (and still don't) understand why he'd be opening another pack at that point in time while we're deck building since it would make it easier for him to "accidentally" mix cards into his pool which shouldn't have been there. Apparently he just wanted to see the rare, and in hindsight I should've been more suspicious right then and there. Anyways, we had called over the judge because we knew something was off. We all finished counting our pools and discovered six of us (seats 1-6) were two cards short while the two people sitting to his direct right (seats 7 & 8) were only one card short. This means the omitted pack (which was now already cracked open anyways and fortunately didn't have a money rare or mythic) was supposed to go clockwise to the left, because a 14 card pile will only make 1.75 rotations in an 8-person pod.
I'd have to agree with you that forgetting/neglecting to open the first pack would be least likely, which means it was probably his third pack that he never opened as the rest of us opened our third packs. I can only speculate as to what happened specifically and why, but I suspect that somehow he was passed pack 3 from position 8 to his right and drafted his 2nd pick from that pile of 13 before ever cracking open his own 3rd pack and choosing his 1st pick among 14. I don't know for certain if he was just extremely careless or if there was malicious intent involved, but it's hard to fathom that anyone could simply forget to open one of their 3 boosters during a draft, then try to open it afterwards and play it off as if it's another unrelated prize pack that just so happened to be in front of them on the table. If he didn't do it on purpose, then I can only imagine that was the cover story he improvised because he realized he screwed up and was so embarrassed that he didn't want to admit to the table that he may have neglected to open a pack as the other guy in seat/position 5 mentioned to the table that he was missing cards. Obviously his attempt at covering it up or playing dumb was futile since it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who screwed up once we had all the numbers and knew who had how many cards in their pools within the pod.
If people wanted to draft cards out of my entire pool I'd likely protest and if they try to make it happen I'd just leave and never return.
That would be your hypothetical prerogative, but to be honest I wouldn't sympathize much with that decision, because if you were an experienced drafter (which this guy is), something so ridiculous and negligent should never have happened (unless you/he were/was intentionally trying to cheat or steal from the draft). A good sport would have found some way to offer the table some sort of compromise to make up for the glitch resulting in their loss of cards. Maybe I'm just more noble or compromising than most players, but if I were ever responsible for such an embarrassing screw up, I'd gladly offer the pod options, and one of those options would be the opportunity to draft the one or two cards they were each missing from my pool, then let me keep the pack that missed rotation, or if they preferred to simply pass around that pack late on it's own in the order it was supposed to go around, I'd be fine with that as well. What I wouldn't do is simply play the situation off like it's nothing, and just say "well sorry guys, it's no big deal and we'll just leave this booster out of the pod" which is essentially what he did and the judge decided to agree with. It doesn't matter if that entire pack had playable cards which are good in limited or if it had 14 useless copies of enter the infinite which wouldn't make the cut in anyone's decks, it's the principle which bothered me. We were each supposed to have 42 cards in our pools to build with, and most of us only ended up with 40 because one guy was either an oblivious douche or thought he was sneaky enough to steal a pack and keep it out of rotation.
This exact situation came up at an RTR draft at my store last year. Our solution was the same. We removed the pack from the table and played with our pools as-is.
If this was meant to comfort me, I appreciate the sentiment but it doesn't. In fact I'd be happier knowing this never happens elsewhere and doesn't ever happen again, so it's disappointing to know that people can make or have made such erroneous screw ups. Just out of curiosity... Were you and the other victims who got shortchanged at no fault of your own satisfied with the "solution" (if one can even call it that), or would some of you have preferred to pass around the extra pack afterwards so everyone would at least have 42 cards?
Also, we get to tease the offending player about it months later. ;-)
I'm not sure if I would derive any satisfaction from doing something immature like this, but I suppose I have nothing to lose beyond my dignity if I try. That being said, if and when I draft with him on my pod again, I'll likely make a facetious comment out loud along the lines of "Now remember to open all your packs this time.!"
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
Here's the ridiculous scenario...
I went to a draft and it was late so there were only two pods. My pod had 8 players. We drafted our cards, and during deck construction, one guy sitting at the far corner from me who was 3 positions to my left noticed his card pool was off and slightly short. Confused, the rest of us asked if he was sure, and he said yes. Then he mentioned that he's actually studying for his L2 or L3 (can't remember which) certification soon. The important thing is he's already at least a level 1 judge and always counts his card pool as a force of habit which I'll also be doing every draft from now on.
The store employee acting as the official judge comes over, we do a little investigation, and then realize that each of us is missing 1 or 2 cards. Perplexed, we start counting pack wrappers on the table, then realize that buddy to my right hadn't opened one of his boosters!! How this happened is beyond me, but he was either half asleep, mentally distracted, or did it on purpose because he wasn't intoxicated. Suffice it to say nobody really knew what to do, so some people started laughing and others looked visibly frustrated.
Now at that point I'm thinking that we should still draft that packs since I would've gotten 2nd (and 10th) pick and those cards could have a significant impact on my (and other) deck(s). But somehow, the general consensus at the table was to let it pass and that our pod just play shorthanded instead. Since nobody else made a big fuss of it, I decided not to as well because I didn't want to be "that guy". I don't know if it was pack 1 or pack 3, but I know it was a pack going left.
Now I ask...
What is the official procedure for such an unlikely, almost inconceivable blunder?
Was I entitled to those extra two cards and should the pack have gone around even after everything else was drafted?
Was omitting the pack from the pod entirely the right call on the judge's part?
Should the guy who neglected to open a pack (and isn't a new player who didn't know how to draft) have been disqualified or penalized in some way (I was thinking perhaps we should each get to draft a card or two from his pool depending on how many we were missing, and then he keep the unopened pack himself)?
Are players required to count their pools after drafting, and if not, is the onus on the judge to recommend it?
Like honestly, how do you forget to open one of three packs during a draft?! I swear I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I'm glad the guy in the corner counted his cards else the rest of may have never known, and dude to my right may have just saw the pack after and kept it to himself. It was so weird that I almost wonder now if he was strategically trying to keep a pack out of the mix for himself from the get-go, which I assume would be penalized as some sort of cheating right?
I'm just wondering if I got shortchanged because I felt like it, and what an experienced judge would do in this weird situation to correct the error because the whole experience really left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Thanks.
Usually, this happens because players start opening packs before ensuring that everybody else is ready. Some people might still be looking at their previous picks and then get passed a pack from their neighbor and reflexively jump into drafting again.
Just make sure everyone is prepared before going on to the next pack.
Also, a question I'm wondering is, how did no one notice a hole in the cards being passed around? The way every store I've ever been at does it is everyone passes at the same time so that things stay organized and people don't start picking and passing from the wrong pack first.
The thing is, nobody jumped the gun on cracking packs. Everyone is careful not to do that where I was playing, and we were (or at least I thought and was sure we were) all finished drafting from packs 1 before packs 2 began, and then again with packs 3.
Regardless, I don't particularly care why this usually happens (elsewhere), because I've never seen this happen before, and I really thought this could be a first case scenario for such an oddity.
I'm more so concerned with whether or not the right call was made on the judge's part, because doing absolutely nothing in my opinion seems worse than improvising up a solution when one doesn't technically exist. Either way I don't expect this to ever happen again, but believe you me that if it does with the same individual, I'll make sure we find out if this is some obscure form of cheating to siphon a few extra cards from the pod's pool, and then deal with the situation as required.
The pack definitely belonged to the guy sitting to my direct right, and it had to be pack 1 or pack 3 because I knew who was short one and who was short two cards. There was a foil basic land in the pool, but that doesn't upset the balance and everyone in the pod should still have the same number (42) of cards.
To answer you question, I'm not sure how nobody else noticed sooner, and I can't help but feel that to some extent we were all slightly negligent. It's a casual environment so some people in the pod were in conversation, and I suppose that I was so focused on what was the best pick from the two packs he passed me that I didn't realize one of them was a card short. Unfortunately not everyone passes a single pack in sync, and some experienced drafters tend to pass packs to the next person faster than the next person can draft, so a few piles may get "lined-up" for the next person to pick from. Then, because that person feels pressured to catch up to the pace of the pod, they may get distracted by the rushed feeling of fast picking and subsequently not notice the gap where one pile is short. Usually lined-up packs doesn't cause any issue, but this time it did.
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There isn't one.
It's debatable whether you were entitled to those cards. If everybody had followed the procedures spelled out in the Magic Tournament Rules, including you, then you would have gotten two more cards than you did get, but the rules don't say that you're entitled to a certain number of cards. As I said already, there is no official procedure in the rules, so there is no basis for saying that the leftover pack should or should not have been drafted.
We weren't there to investigate what happened, and there is no official guideline on what to do, so it's impossible to say whether the solution was correct or not. Leaving the situation alone is a possible solution, and since nobody spoke out against it, including yourself, it would have seemed like the best solution to the judge at the time.
If the judge determines in an investigation that the player deliberately stole from the draft, the player should be disqualified. Otherwise, there is no penalty at Regular REL for messing up a draft.
The Magic Tournament Rules say this: "Players who receive an erroneous number of cards at any time must immediately notify a judge." Reading between the lines, you should actually count the cards you receive with each pass, in addition to counting the total number of cards you have drafted.
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I'd like to hear your evidence of this, I think the hardest pack to remember to open would be the first one.
I've seen and experienced instances of calling for a pass to Pack 1 Pick 2 and I instinctively pick up my second booster pack and crack it. It seems like an auto reflex at some of the tables, I just keep an eye out for it, make sure they don't get to look at the pack too much and have them keep it off to the side.
If people wanted to draft cards out of my entire pool I'd likely protest and if they try to make it happen I'd just leave and never return.
Also, we get to tease the offending player about it months later. ;-)
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Huh? I think you're confused or misread something above. Nobody cracked open any packs prematurely during the draft. A pack was opened late then wasn't included in the pool. I was sitting in seat/position 2. The guy to my direct right (in seat/position 1) never opened one of his three packs during the drafting process. While we were deck building, someone at the far end (in seat/position 5) realized his pool was short two cards, so the rest of us started counting ours. During this counting process the guy to my right was casually opening a pack (the pack he didn't open earlier) claiming (and apparently thinking) it was a prize pack of his from a previous draft when the guy in seat 8 asked him "Where did that pack come from?". Now even if that were true and said pack was his (prize pack from whenever), I couldn't (and still don't) understand why he'd be opening another pack at that point in time while we're deck building since it would make it easier for him to "accidentally" mix cards into his pool which shouldn't have been there. Apparently he just wanted to see the rare, and in hindsight I should've been more suspicious right then and there. Anyways, we had called over the judge because we knew something was off. We all finished counting our pools and discovered six of us (seats 1-6) were two cards short while the two people sitting to his direct right (seats 7 & 8) were only one card short. This means the omitted pack (which was now already cracked open anyways and fortunately didn't have a money rare or mythic) was supposed to go clockwise to the left, because a 14 card pile will only make 1.75 rotations in an 8-person pod.
I'd have to agree with you that forgetting/neglecting to open the first pack would be least likely, which means it was probably his third pack that he never opened as the rest of us opened our third packs. I can only speculate as to what happened specifically and why, but I suspect that somehow he was passed pack 3 from position 8 to his right and drafted his 2nd pick from that pile of 13 before ever cracking open his own 3rd pack and choosing his 1st pick among 14. I don't know for certain if he was just extremely careless or if there was malicious intent involved, but it's hard to fathom that anyone could simply forget to open one of their 3 boosters during a draft, then try to open it afterwards and play it off as if it's another unrelated prize pack that just so happened to be in front of them on the table. If he didn't do it on purpose, then I can only imagine that was the cover story he improvised because he realized he screwed up and was so embarrassed that he didn't want to admit to the table that he may have neglected to open a pack as the other guy in seat/position 5 mentioned to the table that he was missing cards. Obviously his attempt at covering it up or playing dumb was futile since it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who screwed up once we had all the numbers and knew who had how many cards in their pools within the pod.
That would be your hypothetical prerogative, but to be honest I wouldn't sympathize much with that decision, because if you were an experienced drafter (which this guy is), something so ridiculous and negligent should never have happened (unless you/he were/was intentionally trying to cheat or steal from the draft). A good sport would have found some way to offer the table some sort of compromise to make up for the glitch resulting in their loss of cards. Maybe I'm just more noble or compromising than most players, but if I were ever responsible for such an embarrassing screw up, I'd gladly offer the pod options, and one of those options would be the opportunity to draft the one or two cards they were each missing from my pool, then let me keep the pack that missed rotation, or if they preferred to simply pass around that pack late on it's own in the order it was supposed to go around, I'd be fine with that as well. What I wouldn't do is simply play the situation off like it's nothing, and just say "well sorry guys, it's no big deal and we'll just leave this booster out of the pod" which is essentially what he did and the judge decided to agree with. It doesn't matter if that entire pack had playable cards which are good in limited or if it had 14 useless copies of enter the infinite which wouldn't make the cut in anyone's decks, it's the principle which bothered me. We were each supposed to have 42 cards in our pools to build with, and most of us only ended up with 40 because one guy was either an oblivious douche or thought he was sneaky enough to steal a pack and keep it out of rotation.
If this was meant to comfort me, I appreciate the sentiment but it doesn't. In fact I'd be happier knowing this never happens elsewhere and doesn't ever happen again, so it's disappointing to know that people can make or have made such erroneous screw ups. Just out of curiosity... Were you and the other victims who got shortchanged at no fault of your own satisfied with the "solution" (if one can even call it that), or would some of you have preferred to pass around the extra pack afterwards so everyone would at least have 42 cards?
I'm not sure if I would derive any satisfaction from doing something immature like this, but I suppose I have nothing to lose beyond my dignity if I try. That being said, if and when I draft with him on my pod again, I'll likely make a facetious comment out loud along the lines of "Now remember to open all your packs this time.!"
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