Maybe I just don't have enough of a money making mentality to be a store owner, but to me, the God pack creates a nice experience for a player that visits your store and I am not sure why it is such a hassle to just give them a pack at no charge and continue with your draft. You preserve their moment, and come out looking like a great owner for a price of next to nothing.
It's shortsighted of you to only consider the experience of the person who opened the "god pack"
The reason why an owner might want to force you to play out the draft is so that you don't have a piss-poor experience for the other 7 drafters who don't get to complete a draft.
There's no money incentive for the owner either way.
Despite it not being the topic of the post you're responding to, your comment shows a lack of understanding of how dropping from a draft works.
Even should a player drop from a draft, the remaining players still continue the draft without them.
If there was exactly 8 players, the event would continue to be sanctioned, because it started with at least 8 players.
One player simply gets a bye each round.
From a layman perspective, It would depend on what preparation work they did before altering, if they put a clear coat over the top, and what you want the end result to be.
It will probably be nearly impossible to return the card to its original condition, the best hope you have is to have it re-altered to be more appealing.
Three.
The biomancer's ability is a triggered ability and it's power is only checked on resolution.
By the time the ability resolves, the Liege's ability would have been in effect for quite a while.
(Indeed, the Leige's effect would've been in effect even before the the ability triggered!)
Sorry, I misremembered what Biomancer's text was. (grumblegrumblecardtagsgrumblegrumble)
Vorthos is correct, it's just two.
The biomancer's ability is a replacement effect, it's power is checked on the Liege's resolution.
Creatures with flying can only be blocked by creatures with reach, or other creatures with flying.
If you block a creature with flying with another creature with flying, there is nothing that allows to to also assign creatures without flying to block that creature.
At regular REL, any house rules are legal. In fact, the TO can just make up anything he wants. Roll with the punches man.
Whoa, what? I've never heard this, and some quick googling failed to find anything to back it up. Do you have a source?
If it's an unsanctioned event, it's the wild west. I played at a shop like this for a very brief period of time for FNMs, Pre-releases, etc. The last time I went to that shop, I went 3-0-1. The next best record was 3-1. Prizes went to 1st place only, and I was told I was 2nd because draws count as a loss. I then asked for the tiebreakers (since I'd beaten the 3-1 guy), and they looked at me funny like they didn't know what I was talking about. This is the same shop that "banned" Grapeshot because they thought Storm was unbeatable (I really pissed them off when I just showed up with Empty the Warrens instead just to make a point )
The moral of the story: Don't play at shops that don't know what they're doing.
If an event is run at a REL, then it's sanctioned. You can sanction at casual REL, which is basically anything goes, but almost anything with any kind of WotC support is at least regular.
An 'unsanctioned' prerelease would mean that they either signed up for a prerelease and didn't run it (and used the product for the other event), or they did run it, but implimented their own rules. Both are examples of tournament fraud.
Additionally, a store is not supposed to used the 'FNM' branding unless the event is a sanctioned FNM event. Using it implies that the event is being run at regular REL.
At regular REL, any house rules are legal. In fact, the TO can just make up anything he wants. Roll with the punches man.
This is completely untrue. All tournaments sanctioned at regular REL must follow the rules set out in the Comprehensive Rules and the Magic Tournament Rules.
Not doing so can be grounds for the removal of a TO's ability to sanction events.
@OP: You should report the TO to Wizards using their Customer Service page found here: http://wizards.custhelp.com/app/ask/p/773
You will need to have (or sign up for) an account in order to lodge the complaint.
Similarly I had a situation where at a regionals playing Rakdos back when Kamigawa and Rav were in Standard... my opponent managed to get 6 or 8 Jitte counters up and I was about to die but he is at 4 and has had to use Jitte counters for life for a few turns now. I draw my card... Flames of the Blood Hand... so I sigh put it in my hand that I was slowly building up... "swing with my dudes?" He makes some blocks and uses a counter for life gain which would end up keeping him at 4 or less... "response to the Jitte counters, Char?" now I can only assume that he thought this was my only play or he got nervous because this makes him decide he now has to use all of his Jitte counters instead of just 1.... so with all of his Jitte life on the stack "Flames of the Blood Hand you lose". All he had to do was only use as many counters as necessary per action and he would have been fine.
Unless he explicitly announced that he was putting them all on the stack at once, it should've been assumed (due to standard shortcuts) that he was letting each resolve before activating the next.
It's the good old, "'pump my shade for 4...', 'Shock it in response.'" scenario.
During opponent's main 1
*taps mountain "Can I bolt you?"
"Sure"
"Well, I don't want to, but since you passed priority, it is now the combat step"
Yeah, that that doesn't work.
If you ask for priority and do nothing with it, your opponent just gets it back. This is covered my the MTR:
A player may not request priority and take no action with it. If a player decides he or she does not wish to do anything, the request is nullified and priority is returned to the player that originally had it.
It is one of the more common examples of an error pack. I played a 3xTheros draft just before the BotG release, where 2/3 of the packs had duplicate uncommons, so it's still a possibility.
While players should technically call a judge when they open one, most people don't pay that close attention to commons until after they've already sorted them.
Well, Aurelia(/us) means "the golden one" in latin, so that ones also rather classical.
Indeed, to the point where it was the name of Julius Caesar's mother.
I can't think of MTG names showing up elsewhere without having alternate source materials.
Kamahl is a rather common name.
Jeska is an obvious shortening of Jessica.
Phage is a suffix denoting something that consumes (eats) something else.
Karona appears in many places and is pronounced similarly to Carona, which is an actual word.
I swear, I've read that exact excerpt before. Somehow, I missed the exception clause.
Good to know I wasn't doing anything illegal, then. Thanks for the help!
Not quite. If that clause is used, you drop from the tournament instead of playing the last round.
The difference being that since no match is played, your opponent doesn't get any points for beating you.
You could always negotiate to alter the prizes such that no matter who wins, you both get half. If they agree, you're free to concede to your opponent. The important thing is that the concession (ie. Planeswalker points) isn't given on the condition that your opponent agrees to the split.
he didn't have any board wipes in hand, and he was killing prossh after I played him (which now that you mention it, that's probably why he lost that one) Maybe he isn't as good of a player as I was making him out to be. Still, it's hard to tell if the misplays are truly misplays or if it's because he's frustrated with losing/trying too hard to win.
He definitely should've waited for you to attack and possibly sacrifice some of the tokens. Hell, if you went for the stampede with Prossh out, he could've killed Prossh in response to effectively blank your play.
The rules require shortcuts to have a definite end state. Without a defined end state, she hasn't proposed a shortcut, just speculated on the future.
If she has previously performed the loop that match, and chose a number then, then it can be claimed that she's making the same amount of tokens as then and using the shortcut she did properly define previously. The clarification there could be as easy as "Same as last time?".
IMHO, without that sort of background, it's in the same vein as a player reveling cards from their hand to show they have the win next turn.
Sometimes the opponent has an answer and they need to play it out, sometimes the opponent scoops, and other times they bluff and ask for it to be played out anyway.
When One with nothing resolves and you discard Emrakul, it's ability triggers and is placed on the top of the stack, above the tutor.
This means Emrakul's trigger must resolve before the tutor can, 'making the whole play useless' as you put it.
Despite it not being the topic of the post you're responding to, your comment shows a lack of understanding of how dropping from a draft works.
Even should a player drop from a draft, the remaining players still continue the draft without them.
If there was exactly 8 players, the event would continue to be sanctioned, because it started with at least 8 players.
One player simply gets a bye each round.
From a layman perspective, It would depend on what preparation work they did before altering, if they put a clear coat over the top, and what you want the end result to be.
It will probably be nearly impossible to return the card to its original condition, the best hope you have is to have it re-altered to be more appealing.
Master Biomancer
Three.
The biomancer's ability is a triggered ability and it's power is only checked on resolution.
By the time the ability resolves, the Liege's ability would have been in effect for quite a while.
(Indeed, the Leige's effect would've been in effect even before the the ability triggered!)
Sorry, I misremembered what Biomancer's text was. (grumblegrumblecardtagsgrumblegrumble)
Vorthos is correct, it's just two.
The biomancer's ability is a replacement effect, it's power is checked on the Liege's resolution.
Creatures with flying can only be blocked by creatures with reach, or other creatures with flying.
If you block a creature with flying with another creature with flying, there is nothing that allows to to also assign creatures without flying to block that creature.
If an event is run at a REL, then it's sanctioned. You can sanction at casual REL, which is basically anything goes, but almost anything with any kind of WotC support is at least regular.
An 'unsanctioned' prerelease would mean that they either signed up for a prerelease and didn't run it (and used the product for the other event), or they did run it, but implimented their own rules. Both are examples of tournament fraud.
Additionally, a store is not supposed to used the 'FNM' branding unless the event is a sanctioned FNM event. Using it implies that the event is being run at regular REL.
This is completely untrue. All tournaments sanctioned at regular REL must follow the rules set out in the Comprehensive Rules and the Magic Tournament Rules.
Not doing so can be grounds for the removal of a TO's ability to sanction events.
@OP: You should report the TO to Wizards using their Customer Service page found here:
http://wizards.custhelp.com/app/ask/p/773
You will need to have (or sign up for) an account in order to lodge the complaint.
Unless he explicitly announced that he was putting them all on the stack at once, it should've been assumed (due to standard shortcuts) that he was letting each resolve before activating the next.
It's the good old, "'pump my shade for 4...', 'Shock it in response.'" scenario.
Yeah, that that doesn't work.
If you ask for priority and do nothing with it, your opponent just gets it back. This is covered my the MTR:
While players should technically call a judge when they open one, most people don't pay that close attention to commons until after they've already sorted them.
Indeed, to the point where it was the name of Julius Caesar's mother.
I can't think of MTG names showing up elsewhere without having alternate source materials.
Jeska is an obvious shortening of Jessica.
Phage is a suffix denoting something that consumes (eats) something else.
Karona appears in many places and is pronounced similarly to Carona, which is an actual word.
Not quite. If that clause is used, you drop from the tournament instead of playing the last round.
The difference being that since no match is played, your opponent doesn't get any points for beating you.
You could always negotiate to alter the prizes such that no matter who wins, you both get half. If they agree, you're free to concede to your opponent. The important thing is that the concession (ie. Planeswalker points) isn't given on the condition that your opponent agrees to the split.
He definitely should've waited for you to attack and possibly sacrifice some of the tokens. Hell, if you went for the stampede with Prossh out, he could've killed Prossh in response to effectively blank your play.
If she has previously performed the loop that match, and chose a number then, then it can be claimed that she's making the same amount of tokens as then and using the shortcut she did properly define previously. The clarification there could be as easy as "Same as last time?".
IMHO, without that sort of background, it's in the same vein as a player reveling cards from their hand to show they have the win next turn.
Sometimes the opponent has an answer and they need to play it out, sometimes the opponent scoops, and other times they bluff and ask for it to be played out anyway.