Hi. So. I played against an opponent who has a Thought-Knot Seer. It ends up leaving the battlefied, who's responsibility is it to announce the trigger?The same opponent had a chalice of the void on one, and was countering my spells with it. He cast a Relic of Progenitus, and asked me for any responses, I said no and he put it onto the battlefield. Is it my responsibility to remind him of the trigger?
Each player is responsible for the triggers her or she controls. Intentionally skipping a mandatory (not "you may") trigger you control is cheating and worthy of disqualification, but genuinely forgetting about it (it's up to a judge to determine which it is from an investigation) can happen. If your opponent forgets a trigger of his and you notice it, you may choose not to remind the him and let the trigger be forgotten, or you can point it out. In both your examples, I would suggest you point it out AND call a judge. Those are detrimental triggers, and if this is a competitive rules enforcement level tournament, your opponent should receive a warning for not remembering them since skipping them is to his advantage. Even if you point out the missed triggers late, they can sometimes still be put on the stack at that point, the Seer's trigger being a good example. The Chalice trigger on the other hand requires going back in time, which may not be possible.
I'm a former judge (lapsed), who keeps up to date on rules and policy. Keep in mind that judges' answers aren't necessarily more valid than those of people who aren't judges; what matters is we can quote the rules to back up our answers. When in doubt, ask for such quotes.
Each player is responsible for the triggers her or she controls. Intentionally skipping a mandatory (not "you may") trigger you control is cheating and worthy of disqualification, but genuinely forgetting about it (it's up to a judge to determine which it is from an investigation) can happen. If your opponent forgets a trigger of his and you notice it, you may choose not to remind the him and let the trigger be forgotten, or you can point it out. In both your examples, I would suggest you point it out AND call a judge. Those are detrimental triggers, and if this is a competitive rules enforcement level tournament, your opponent should receive a warning for not remembering them since skipping them is to his advantage. Even if you point out the missed triggers late, they can sometimes still be put on the stack at that point, the Seer's trigger being a good example. The Chalice trigger on the other hand requires going back in time, which may not be possible.
In the second case the opponent willingly missed a detrimental trigger which is cheating.
Each player is responsible for the triggers her or she controls. Intentionally skipping a mandatory (not "you may") trigger you control is cheating and worthy of disqualification, but genuinely forgetting about it (it's up to a judge to determine which it is from an investigation) can happen. If your opponent forgets a trigger of his and you notice it, you may choose not to remind the him and let the trigger be forgotten, or you can point it out. In both your examples, I would suggest you point it out AND call a judge. Those are detrimental triggers, and if this is a competitive rules enforcement level tournament, your opponent should receive a warning for not remembering them since skipping them is to his advantage. Even if you point out the missed triggers late, they can sometimes still be put on the stack at that point, the Seer's trigger being a good example. The Chalice trigger on the other hand requires going back in time, which may not be possible.
In the second case the opponent willingly missed a detrimental trigger which is cheating.
I don't think we can tell for sure from Quintp's post; the player may really have forgotten about his Chalice. If the head judge actually has good reason to believe like you do, such as precedent, then he can certainly make that call and DQ the player, but honest mistakes happen a lot with Chalice. I guess what tips you off is the "and was countering my spells with it" phrase; if the Chalice actually triggered and countered spells in recent turns, that can certainly make the player more suspect, but that may not be textually what the OP meant, and even then, I wouldn't call that definitive proof of cheating. YMMV.
I'm a former judge (lapsed), who keeps up to date on rules and policy. Keep in mind that judges' answers aren't necessarily more valid than those of people who aren't judges; what matters is we can quote the rules to back up our answers. When in doubt, ask for such quotes.
In the second case the opponent willingly missed a detrimental trigger which is cheating.
That's what it looks like... but if he claims he honestly forgot (which does happen!), would you still disqualify him?
If he's actively countering all of opponent's spells with it and then he plays a one mana spell and asks for responses? I would ask if opponent mentioned why he didn't announce his Chalice trigger? If he said "you forgot" then he is missing a trigger on purpose that he's not allowed to miss.
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In the second case the opponent willingly missed a detrimental trigger which is cheating.
If he's actively countering all of opponent's spells with it and then he plays a one mana spell and asks for responses? I would ask if opponent mentioned why he didn't announce his Chalice trigger? If he said "you forgot" then he is missing a trigger on purpose that he's not allowed to miss.