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5 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 6:38AM
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Jul 15, 2011
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my friend has been saying that they changed the "forgetting your own triggers" policies something like 3 or 4 times. can anyone point me to:
- a place that has the most recent policies, for all RELs,
- a place that tells me all the different changes (ie each time they changed the policy) and the reasoning behind each change?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 6:47AM
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Over the past year or two, the trigger rules have indeed been changed a few times. The current rules can be found here, with the rules for Competitive and Professional being in the Infraction Procedure Guide section 2.1. The rules for regular REL are loosely found in the Judging at Regular REL guidelines and basically boil down to "both players are responsible for remembering triggers". This reddit post has a quite good explanation of the history of the changes and their motivation. It won't give you the nitty-gritty details of each step along the way, but it does describe the major features of each of the changes.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 6:54AM
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Jul 15, 2011
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thanks cyphern, i'll take a look.
a few weeks ago, some people at FNM insisted that if i miss my mandatory triggers, then too bad for me and that my opponent is not obliged to help maintain proper game state. i wanted to protest "but are you sure at this REL?" but i knew that the rules kept changing, so i kept my mouth shut. [one of the unhappy things about both LGSs that i know of in my city, is that neither has an official judge there... and one doesn't even seem to have someone with Rules Advisor level credentials half the time, either! or at least, they don't advertise who the official judges are supposed to be.]
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5 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 6:56AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 19, 2003
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a few weeks ago, some people at FNM insisted that if i miss my mandatory triggers, then too bad for me and that my opponent is not obliged to help maintain proper game state.
At FNM, which is regular REL, they are wrong. The new trigger rules only apply to competitive and professional REL.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 6:58AM
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thanks cyphern, i'll take a look.
a few weeks ago, some people at FNM insisted that if i miss my mandatory triggers, then too bad for me and that my opponent is not obliged to help maintain proper game state. i wanted to protest "but are you sure at this REL?" but i knew that the rules kept changing, so i kept my mouth shut. [one of the unhappy things about both LGSs that i know of in my city, is that neither has an official judge there... and one doesn't even seem to have someone with Rules Advisor level credentials half the time, either! or at least, they don't advertise who the official judges are supposed to be.]
The trigger rules for regular REL haven't changed, those are the same as they've been. The only changes that have occured recently is the trigger policy for competitive and professional REL. So you have been told wrong, your opponent is responsible for informing you of your missed manditory triggers at reg REL and if caught in time those triggers should be put on the stack.
DCI Level 2 Judge
Rockford, Illinois
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5 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 4:37PM
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i'm looking at the Missed Trigger Update posted recently on dailymtg, and it says: === At Regular REL, there are really only two "rules." You aren't allowed to miss your own triggered abilities, and your opponent isn't required to remind you about them. === ( www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.a...) this seems to contradict the following post posted above (and what i thought was true, for what it's worth) === So you have been told wrong, your opponent is responsible for informing you of your missed manditory triggers at reg REL and if caught in time those triggers should be put on the stack. === is the latter quotation false, now, or are they somehow both true and i'm just not seeing how this is not a contradiction?
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5 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 4:42PM
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the post above is now outdated, since they changed it
so go with the article from Matt
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5 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 4:48PM
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the post above is now outdated, since they changed it
so go with the article from Matt
So now we can let our opponents forget mandatory triggers at FNM? Thats not really "newby friendly", is it?
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5 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 4:53PM
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the post above is now outdated, since they changed it
so go with the article from Matt
So now we can let our opponents forget mandatory triggers at FNM? Thats not really "newby friendly", is it?
~ Tim
that's exactly what i'm thinking.
when i started this thread, i said that someone at FNM insisted that it was up to me to remind him every time my Soul Tithe  triggered, else he could (full well knowing about my Soul Tithe) continue on to his main phase. somehow this feels against the spirit of FNM; i go to play FNM to have fun with others, not to have a cutthroat competition of skill where part of that means using whatever loopholes in the tournament rules you can to your advantage!
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5 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 4:55PM
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the post above is now outdated, since they changed it
so go with the article from Matt
but my confusion is that Matt Tabak's recent article didn't give any impression that this was a /change/.
can anyone post (or link) for me where in the [older] tournament rules it said that in Regular RELs, you're not responsible for pointing out your opponent's mandatory triggers?
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