I'm pretty sure everyone has been here before; Your opponent is a native English speaker and decides to play with an entire deck of foreign cards. This is normally not a problem if they play foreign lightning bolts, but I literally had encountered this guy who decided to bring a completely rouge deck with half of the cards as foreign. I had to get an extra piece of paper and note down what each card does. I found this to be extremely frustrating and I asked the judge for a time extension (this request was not granted).
What do you feel about people playing with foreign cards? I understand that wizards cannot allow players to not play non-foreign cards, but do you feel there should be a rule change in competitive REL that if someone is paired against an opponent with foreign cards, a time extension should be granted?
I personally would also have a rule such as "If you don't speak the language on the foreign card, you cannot play it"
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It's not against the rules but it is definitely annoying. As the rules currently stand, you can at any time call a judge to get the oracle text of any card at any time. It slows down the match and could cause a long game to go to turns, but it's probably the only solution other than memorizing card art or trusting the opponent.
I personally prefer not to use foreign cards (and other than super obvious staples like Lightning Bolt, stay away from textless cards like Cryptic Command). There's nothing more frustrating for both sides than to have a misunderstanding of what a card actually does and have to call a judge multiple times to rectify a simple text-reading problem.
You can get time extensions without asking for them. Just get to a spot where there are a few cards on the battlefield or graveyard and ask a judge for oracle texts on all of them. It'll take so long that they'll give you an extension for the amount of time it took them to complete the judge call. Do it multiple times.
I personally can't stand what you describe - someone who doesn't even speak the language on the cards playing with a full deck of them - but I wouldn't make a rules change for it, even around time extensions.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but I took out my own phone infront of my opponent and I told to him, "I'm going to look up these oracle texts" and we didn't call a judge. (Idk if that was okay, but my opponent didn't mind I had an electronic device ). I think Wizards seriously needs to do something about this.
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I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but I took out my own phone infront of my opponent and I told to him, "I'm going to look up these oracle texts" and we didn't call a judge. (Idk if that was okay, but my opponent didn't mind I had an electronic device ). I think Wizards seriously needs to do something about this.
HA HA HA. I remember my opponent doing that with Chains as well! I remember realizing I was playing it wrong! My only regret was not buying a full play set. Back then, Chains really put a dent in my teenage minimum wage earning wallet.
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I do the phone and Oracle thing as well. As long as I make it clear what it's for, I never had anyone complain. I do it for foreign cards other people have and for older cards I have that don't have the correct Oracle wording. I would take what I said with a a bit of salt as I haven't gone to anything higher than FNM when I started doing that.
It would be extremely annoying. I myself, only like playing English cards, but even I have some Prismatic Omens that are Chinese (I managed to get them a while back after they spiked to $15 for $5 a piece, but only for Chinese, so I had to take the deal). I really hate playing with these cards, as it seems to me that I am trying to be tricky to my opponent, which I'm not. I may actually just buy some English ones when I get a chance.
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While I understand op's frustration you can not force people to play cards in their language.
I am living in Japan and I try to get most of my cards in English but sometimes they just don't have them in stock so I get them in Japanese. I can speak some Japanese but reading all those kanji's is something I can not. Now this summer I went back to my country for a vacation and brought my deck with me to play with my friends.
Am I not allowed to play my Japanese cards now? That just makes no sense.
I'm fine with foreign cards, but playing with them is a privilege. If you don't know if Price of Progress is an instant or a sorcery, for example, you lose that privilege and should be playing English copies.
I don't understand anyone asking for rules that are entirely unenforceable around foreign language cards. This is an international game where people of all races and languages can come together and play. Most of the time you will know what staples do off of the art and you can ask a judge for oracle text.
You can't institute some time extension rule because it is entirely unenforceable and abusable. You would have to have players mark on their decklist whether or not they had cards outside of the predominantly spoken language of the area then give each of them a time extension. That's way too much to ask of the judges at any event. In a PPTQ you will have 1 Judge per 16 matches usually. It's unreasonable to ask them to monitor that and have multiple different time clocks going. And at larger events you will have even fewer judges per match and now not only is every round going to time because of the size of the event, it's going to extra time on half the matches and grinding the day to a halt. And it's so easy to abuse this. Just get whatever random language outside of your country's tongue is cheap for a couple of playsets of commons and boom you have an unfair time extension.
I understand being frustrated at having to slog through some Brew deck in a random handful of languages, but this is not a problem. Just call a judge and make sure to carefully write out the oracle text to make it take long enough to get the 1 minute extension if it matters that much to you. And if it really is some wonky brew, you would be rereading the cards anyway so who cares if you are reading it off your notes or their card. Don't make an issue out of nothing just because you got frustrated.
While I understand op's frustration you can not force people to play cards in their language.
I am living in Japan and I try to get most of my cards in English but sometimes they just don't have them in stock so I get them in Japanese. I can speak some Japanese but reading all those kanji's is something I can not. Now this summer I went back to my country for a vacation and brought my deck with me to play with my friends.
Am I not allowed to play my Japanese cards now? That just makes no sense.
One thing I honestly cannot stand is I once asked my opponent "What does your Knight of the Reliquary (He has a spanish version) do?"
And his response was "I can sacrifice a land to grab a forest or a plains" Then on the following turn, he sacrifices a forest to grab gavony township. Later I called the judge, because I would have pathed knight right away. The judge (at FNM) said I should have asked the exact translation and not rely on the opponent. My opponent got a warning but we didn't do a rewind.
The other thing the judges need to do more is to police cards like this: (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzE1WDUyNQ==/z/rdsAAOSwKIpV-w4L/$_35.JPG). [Its a German Forest with an art that looks like a plains + you need to copy the entire link in the description to view the card).
People are playing this mostly to trick the opponent.
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Your judge was wrong to do that at FNM. At Regular REL (FNMs etc) derived information such as the text on a card is considered free information and all questions about it must be answered fully and honestly. And there are no official 'warning' penalties at Regular. All of that is bull from the Judge.
And for the German misprint stuff, Judges can't magically do better policing that. We are stretched too thin at any given event. It is on players to call Judge on that.
Your judge was wrong to do that at FNM. At Regular REL (FNMs etc) derived information such as the text on a card is considered free information and all questions about it must be answered fully and honestly. And there are no official 'warning' penalties at Regular. All of that is bull from the Judge.
And for the German misprint stuff, Judges can't magically do better policing that. We are stretched too thin at any given event. It is on players to call Judge on that.
the judge was wrong? what, you're going to give someone a game loss or dq them from FNM for sloppily providing incorrect information? seems a bit extreme.
Also the pointing out his Spanish accent is completely unnecessary. at the end of the day, it's fnm, if you wanna cheat to win at a casual event there's way easier ways to do it, fnm is meant to be a fun environment and if you try to rules lawyer somewhere there you should be the one getting a dq.
I'm not sure where you are finding a comment about a Spanish accent...?
What I'm saying is that the JAR (Judging at Regular) document does not support the issuing of the 'Warning' penalty that you give at Competitive REL. you either correct the issue and educate the player in a way that makes it clear that this issue should not happen again or you disqualify them. In some rather extreme scenarios such as repeatedly asking a player to play faster because they are Slow Playing, there is a suggested upgrade to a game loss, but other than stuff like that there is either no penalty or a disqualification. I may have read the comment to which I was replying too literally when it said 'My opponent got a warning but we didn't do a rewind' and incorrectly thought that the poster was saying the judge tried to assess the penalty of a warning. If so, whoops. Regardless, the situation as described was handled not only poorly but incorrectly by that judge. Which is what I was saying. While I don't support a back up there, you shouldn't tell a player at Regular not to ask the opponent about free information.
"the player using the foreign cards must either translate the name or explain what it does".
if they cannot, they shouldn't be playing them.
I used to play legacy with japanese green sun's zenith, and i never remembered about the shuffle into library clause so swapped them with english ones
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Your judge was wrong to do that at FNM. At Regular REL (FNMs etc) derived information such as the text on a card is considered free information and all questions about it must be answered fully and honestly. And there are no official 'warning' penalties at Regular. All of that is bull from the Judge.
And for the German misprint stuff, Judges can't magically do better policing that. We are stretched too thin at any given event. It is on players to call Judge on that.
the judge was wrong? what, you're going to give someone a game loss or dq them from FNM for sloppily providing incorrect information? seems a bit extreme.
Also the pointing out his Spanish accent is completely unnecessary. at the end of the day, it's fnm, if you wanna cheat to win at a casual event there's way easier ways to do it, fnm is meant to be a fun environment and if you try to rules lawyer somewhere there you should be the one getting a dq.
A DQ? That would be wrong. What should have happened was the following:
The opponent should have received a penalty for a communication policy violation. The opponent clearly provided incorrect derived information. "• Players may not represent derived or free information incorrectly." So the infraction results in a penalty. In competitive REL this might result in more disciplinary action but at regular REL the fix is to simply educate both players, and back-up if possible. Backing up here is impossible since we're rewinding multiple upkeeps, but we can instruct the opponent to be clearer on their explanations (and also to call a judge to provide English oracle text), and to tell the player that if he is at all unsure on what a card does he can call a judge and get oracle text. They can even ask rules questions away from table if they're worried that asking a certain question would reveal too much information. To get a DQ for a communication violation you have to be doing seriously shady stuff at very high REL. Not messing up a Knight at FNM.
You are partially right and also wrong. You are correct that this should not be a DQ. And I agree with you that there should not be a back up. But there is no CPV to assess here. CPV comes from the Infraction Procedure Guide which is not used at Regular Rules Enforcement Level such as FNMs. So, no penalty is assessed, no backup, educate players. Additionally, as per the Magic Tournament Rules, at Regular REL, derived info is treated as free info. So, any question about a card has to be answered completely and honestly. While a player can still call for oracle text if the players don't know what the card does, they could also look it up on their phone because this is REGULAR REL and they can do that.
@PokerKingdave, there is no such rule. The name of a card is free information, so a player does need to provide that, but there is nothing in the MTR about foreign language cards. If there's an issue where someone forgets the name that's not a problem, just call a judge for assistance.
You are partially right and also wrong. You are correct that this should not be a DQ. And I agree with you that there should not be a back up. But there is no CPV to assess here. CPV comes from the Infraction Procedure Guide which is not used at Regular Rules Enforcement Level such as FNMs. So, no penalty is assessed, no backup, educate players. Additionally, as per the Magic Tournament Rules, at Regular REL, derived info is treated as free info. So, any question about a card has to be answered completely and honestly. While a player can still call for oracle text if the players don't know what the card does, they could also look it up on their phone because this is REGULAR REL and they can do that.
@PokerKingdave, there is no such rule. The name of a card is free information, so a player does need to provide that, but there is nothing in the MTR about foreign language cards. If there's an issue where someone forgets the name that's not a problem, just call a judge for assistance.
except you cannot deliberately misrepresent what a card does. however, you are correct that he doesn't need to translate the text.
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Not deliberately misrepresenting the text is covered in what I said. But that doesn't change that you aren't assessing a penalty here unless you are disqualifying a player. Because you don't assess penalties at FNM because there are not penalties to assess in the JAR which is what governs FNM. No part of the IPG which governs competitive REL events is relevant to this discussion. So there are no penalties to assess.
And @goblinsofparadise that is both narrow minded and dumb. Also 'native US speakers' doesn't make sense.
That's my bad, I should't have said penalty. But I stand by the rest of it. The opponent did violate the communications policy, but as regular REL is designed to inform players rather than punish them they should back up, if possible, and players should receive an explanation.
I'm curious, if I was a Spanish player playing at a Tournament organized in the United States, how would I make a judge call? What do they do if they do not have a translator onsite?
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That's my bad, I should't have said penalty. But I stand by the rest of it. The opponent did violate the communications policy, but as regular REL is designed to inform players rather than punish them they should back up, if possible, and players should receive an explanation.
You are completely correct. The player violated MTR 4.1 (Communication Policy). There is no penalty, but we educate. That's why I said at the very beginning that this was handled very poorly by the judges description. And it seems to me that we don't have enough information to assess whether a backup could be feasible. I'm inclined to say no as we have gone through a draw step.
I'm curious, if I was a Spanish player playing at a Tournament organized in the United States, how would I make a judge call? What do they do if they do not have a translator onsite?
You would make the call the same way you would anywhere else. Raise your hand a shout 'JUDGE' loudly. If this is a large event such as a GP, then there will most likely be at least one judge who speaks spanish. If this is a smaller local event, try your best to communicate with the judge. If you can not communicate what you need with simple gestures at cards or help from any bystanders, I suggest trying google translate or even calling a friend on the phone if you know someone who speaks spanish and english. If it was one of my events, I have multiple bilingual friends that I can call in this situation for Spanish, French, Chinese, German, and possibly Japanese but I don't know if that person would answer my phone calls anymore... bit of a falling out happened...
I'm curious, if I was a Spanish player playing at a Tournament organized in the United States, how would I make a judge call? What do they do if they do not have a translator onsite?
All judges should be required to be fluent in every language, obviously.
But on a more serious note, Spanish cards are wayyyy easier to translate than Chinese cards. A Spanish card would be more more doable albeit a judge should offer a time extension, but then again that may be considered an advantage for both players on that match.
If you live in America these days it would behoove you at least have a rudimentary understanding of the Spanish language. It is easy to learn and so many people speak it. Additionally, if you are a Spanish speaking person in America, I believe it is more imperative that you learn English.
Something to keep in mind is that sometimes the text of a card in another language, when translated, does not necessarily always match the Oracle text, so I believe it is fundamental to ask for it whenever possible.
Oracle text (and hence what you see in English) states that its ability triggers whenever any player casts a non-creature spell. Well, guess what - its Spanish text says that it triggers only when an opponent does so! Quite the powerlevel jump, eh?
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It's not against the rules but it is definitely annoying. As the rules currently stand, you can at any time call a judge to get the oracle text of any card at any time. It slows down the match and could cause a long game to go to turns, but it's probably the only solution other than memorizing card art or trusting the opponent.
I personally prefer not to use foreign cards (and other than super obvious staples like Lightning Bolt, stay away from textless cards like Cryptic Command). There's nothing more frustrating for both sides than to have a misunderstanding of what a card actually does and have to call a judge multiple times to rectify a simple text-reading problem.
I think the problem stems from when people do this intentionally in order to get an edge. It gets even worse when they use obscure art. I once played in a tournament against a person playing all foreign cards, and wherever possible each card was in a different art and a different language.
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What do you feel about people playing with foreign cards? I understand that wizards cannot allow players to not play non-foreign cards, but do you feel there should be a rule change in competitive REL that if someone is paired against an opponent with foreign cards, a time extension should be granted?
I personally would also have a rule such as "If you don't speak the language on the foreign card, you cannot play it"
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I personally prefer not to use foreign cards (and other than super obvious staples like Lightning Bolt, stay away from textless cards like Cryptic Command). There's nothing more frustrating for both sides than to have a misunderstanding of what a card actually does and have to call a judge multiple times to rectify a simple text-reading problem.
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I personally can't stand what you describe - someone who doesn't even speak the language on the cards playing with a full deck of them - but I wouldn't make a rules change for it, even around time extensions.
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It reminds me of this time in legacy where I pulled out a diagram for chains of mephistopheles and had to follow the diagram for my turn. (http://mtg.summoning.ru/images/ChainsofMephistopheles_eng.gif)
Ridiculous
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HA HA HA. I remember my opponent doing that with Chains as well! I remember realizing I was playing it wrong! My only regret was not buying a full play set. Back then, Chains really put a dent in my teenage minimum wage earning wallet.
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I do the phone and Oracle thing as well. As long as I make it clear what it's for, I never had anyone complain. I do it for foreign cards other people have and for older cards I have that don't have the correct Oracle wording. I would take what I said with a a bit of salt as I haven't gone to anything higher than FNM when I started doing that.
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Am I not allowed to play my Japanese cards now? That just makes no sense.
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You can't institute some time extension rule because it is entirely unenforceable and abusable. You would have to have players mark on their decklist whether or not they had cards outside of the predominantly spoken language of the area then give each of them a time extension. That's way too much to ask of the judges at any event. In a PPTQ you will have 1 Judge per 16 matches usually. It's unreasonable to ask them to monitor that and have multiple different time clocks going. And at larger events you will have even fewer judges per match and now not only is every round going to time because of the size of the event, it's going to extra time on half the matches and grinding the day to a halt. And it's so easy to abuse this. Just get whatever random language outside of your country's tongue is cheap for a couple of playsets of commons and boom you have an unfair time extension.
I understand being frustrated at having to slog through some Brew deck in a random handful of languages, but this is not a problem. Just call a judge and make sure to carefully write out the oracle text to make it take long enough to get the 1 minute extension if it matters that much to you. And if it really is some wonky brew, you would be rereading the cards anyway so who cares if you are reading it off your notes or their card. Don't make an issue out of nothing just because you got frustrated.
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One thing I honestly cannot stand is I once asked my opponent "What does your Knight of the Reliquary (He has a spanish version) do?"
And his response was "I can sacrifice a land to grab a forest or a plains" Then on the following turn, he sacrifices a forest to grab gavony township. Later I called the judge, because I would have pathed knight right away. The judge (at FNM) said I should have asked the exact translation and not rely on the opponent. My opponent got a warning but we didn't do a rewind.
The other thing the judges need to do more is to police cards like this: (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzE1WDUyNQ==/z/rdsAAOSwKIpV-w4L/$_35.JPG). [Its a German Forest with an art that looks like a plains + you need to copy the entire link in the description to view the card).
People are playing this mostly to trick the opponent.
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And for the German misprint stuff, Judges can't magically do better policing that. We are stretched too thin at any given event. It is on players to call Judge on that.
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the judge was wrong? what, you're going to give someone a game loss or dq them from FNM for sloppily providing incorrect information? seems a bit extreme.
Also the pointing out his Spanish accent is completely unnecessary. at the end of the day, it's fnm, if you wanna cheat to win at a casual event there's way easier ways to do it, fnm is meant to be a fun environment and if you try to rules lawyer somewhere there you should be the one getting a dq.
What I'm saying is that the JAR (Judging at Regular) document does not support the issuing of the 'Warning' penalty that you give at Competitive REL. you either correct the issue and educate the player in a way that makes it clear that this issue should not happen again or you disqualify them. In some rather extreme scenarios such as repeatedly asking a player to play faster because they are Slow Playing, there is a suggested upgrade to a game loss, but other than stuff like that there is either no penalty or a disqualification. I may have read the comment to which I was replying too literally when it said 'My opponent got a warning but we didn't do a rewind' and incorrectly thought that the poster was saying the judge tried to assess the penalty of a warning. If so, whoops. Regardless, the situation as described was handled not only poorly but incorrectly by that judge. Which is what I was saying. While I don't support a back up there, you shouldn't tell a player at Regular not to ask the opponent about free information.
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"the player using the foreign cards must either translate the name or explain what it does".
if they cannot, they shouldn't be playing them.
I used to play legacy with japanese green sun's zenith, and i never remembered about the shuffle into library clause so swapped them with english ones
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A DQ? That would be wrong. What should have happened was the following:
The opponent should have received a penalty for a communication policy violation. The opponent clearly provided incorrect derived information. "• Players may not represent derived or free information incorrectly." So the infraction results in a penalty. In competitive REL this might result in more disciplinary action but at regular REL the fix is to simply educate both players, and back-up if possible. Backing up here is impossible since we're rewinding multiple upkeeps, but we can instruct the opponent to be clearer on their explanations (and also to call a judge to provide English oracle text), and to tell the player that if he is at all unsure on what a card does he can call a judge and get oracle text. They can even ask rules questions away from table if they're worried that asking a certain question would reveal too much information. To get a DQ for a communication violation you have to be doing seriously shady stuff at very high REL. Not messing up a Knight at FNM.
@PokerKingdave, there is no such rule. The name of a card is free information, so a player does need to provide that, but there is nothing in the MTR about foreign language cards. If there's an issue where someone forgets the name that's not a problem, just call a judge for assistance.
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except you cannot deliberately misrepresent what a card does. however, you are correct that he doesn't need to translate the text.
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And @goblinsofparadise that is both narrow minded and dumb. Also 'native US speakers' doesn't make sense.
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Modern
Elves / Titanshift / Merfolk
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2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
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You are completely correct. The player violated MTR 4.1 (Communication Policy). There is no penalty, but we educate. That's why I said at the very beginning that this was handled very poorly by the judges description. And it seems to me that we don't have enough information to assess whether a backup could be feasible. I'm inclined to say no as we have gone through a draw step.
You would make the call the same way you would anywhere else. Raise your hand a shout 'JUDGE' loudly. If this is a large event such as a GP, then there will most likely be at least one judge who speaks spanish. If this is a smaller local event, try your best to communicate with the judge. If you can not communicate what you need with simple gestures at cards or help from any bystanders, I suggest trying google translate or even calling a friend on the phone if you know someone who speaks spanish and english. If it was one of my events, I have multiple bilingual friends that I can call in this situation for Spanish, French, Chinese, German, and possibly Japanese but I don't know if that person would answer my phone calls anymore... bit of a falling out happened...
Marath, Will of the Wild Tokens!! / Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund Dragons! / Muzzio, Visionary Architect / Brago, King Eternal / Daretti, Scrap Savant / Narset, Enlightened Master / Alesha, Who Smiles at Death / Bruna, Light of Alabaster / Marchesa, the Black Rose / Iroas, God of Victory / Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury / Omnath, Locus of rage / Titania, Protector of Argoth / Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Modern
Elves / Titanshift / Merfolk
All judges should be required to be fluent in every language, obviously.
But on a more serious note, Spanish cards are wayyyy easier to translate than Chinese cards. A Spanish card would be more more doable albeit a judge should offer a time extension, but then again that may be considered an advantage for both players on that match.
If you live in America these days it would behoove you at least have a rudimentary understanding of the Spanish language. It is easy to learn and so many people speak it. Additionally, if you are a Spanish speaking person in America, I believe it is more imperative that you learn English.
Case in point - you guys know Ruric Thar, the Unbowed?
Oracle text (and hence what you see in English) states that its ability triggers whenever any player casts a non-creature spell. Well, guess what - its Spanish text says that it triggers only when an opponent does so! Quite the powerlevel jump, eh?
Modern - Cheeri0s (building), Belcher (building), Lantern (building), UW Control (building)
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I think the problem stems from when people do this intentionally in order to get an edge. It gets even worse when they use obscure art. I once played in a tournament against a person playing all foreign cards, and wherever possible each card was in a different art and a different language.