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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 9:49AM
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If you go first do you draw a card first? giving you 8 cards?
also what is a 15 card max sidedeck i read about?
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:05AM
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If you go first, you don't draw a card on your first turn. Going second means that you draw on your first turn.
The sideboard is a selection of cards used after the first round in a match. It contains 0 or 15 cards. Nowhere in between. After the first round, you can switch cards in your deck with those in the sideboard, but once the match is over, you must switch back.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:06AM
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so a match is one game right???
so how many rounds are there??
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:22AM
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a match is usually 2-3 games
if one player wins 2 games the match is over
how many rounds there are depends on the format of the tournament and on how many players are attending
zephyr used "rounds" wrong in this context, you sideboard between games, not between rounds
at the beginning of the next round (and the next match) you have to restore your deck to its original decklist
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:31AM
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so you can sideboard every other game?? do you have to add in all 15 cards to your deck and remove 15?
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:41AM
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You can swap any number of cards, but it has to be 1:1. You can sideboard before the second and third game of a match, never for the first.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:42AM
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so you can sideboard every other game?? do you have to add in all 15 cards to your deck and remove 15?
In each match, the first game must be played with the deck restored to its original state. After each game you can make sideboard changes. You can exchange as many cards as you want (limited to 15, of course), but you must exchange cards on a one-for-one basis: If you take five cards out, you must put five cards in.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:44AM
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thanks for the help everybody
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:18AM
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just to clarify...
a match is won when one blayer wins 2/3 games.
The first game your sideboard cannot be used.
the second and 3rd game you can substitute in cards from sideboard.
at begining of next round deck is restored to original state.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:29AM
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Yes. In some tournaments, matches consist of best of five, but not the tournaments you and I are likely to be playing in. It's easy to make mistakes sideboarding. After sideboarding, I always count that I have 15 cards in my sideboard. I also take a printout of the deck with me, so I can restore the sideboard without any confusion (but then again, I'm easily confused). In the decisive game of the 2012 Pro Tour Avacyn Restored semifinal between Alexander Hayne and Jon Finkel, Hayne forgot to take out five cards he had sideboarded in. Because he reported the error himself and because Finkel graciously offered that he was fine with the situation, Hayne was not disqualified. Hayne proceded to win the game and, later, the entire tournament. It's a good lesson about sideboarding and also a good lesson about sportmamnship in Magic.
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