This is my first post here and I would like to ask a question about Modern tournaments.
As in the title: do players know their opponent's list before the game starts?
You don't get to know your opponent's deck period. You don't have a right to that knowledge. You will find out in the game, and only if an effect lets you look at that player's hidden zones, do you get to see more of it than what he shows you by playing.
A player has to bring a legal deck, of course, and deck checks may be done by judges at any given time during the tournament. But other players don't get to do that. Of course, what a player chooses to reveal of his deck is up to him, he's free to share any such information if he wants to.
There are tournaments with open decklists meaning that everyone who is registered has the decklist they submitted to the tournament available to look at. In such tournaments, you can easily look up your opponent's name and find their decklist. However, this isn't the norm so you won't regularly know what your opponent is playing until you start actually playing.
This is my first post here and I would like to ask a question about Modern tournaments.
As in the title: do players know their opponent's list before the game starts?
Thank you in advance,
Etoclas
A player has to bring a legal deck, of course, and deck checks may be done by judges at any given time during the tournament. But other players don't get to do that. Of course, what a player chooses to reveal of his deck is up to him, he's free to share any such information if he wants to.
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