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Sideboard shuffled into maindeck

May 18, 2015 10:53:41 AM

Hank Wiest
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy)), Scorekeeper

USA - Northeast

Sideboard shuffled into maindeck

So, an interesting situation came up at a GPT for Las Vegas I played in on Saturday. One player (let's call him Alan) was facing down his opponent (Norm) who had a Chalice of the Void with one charge counter on it. Alan casts Shattering Spree, replicating it once, and targeting the Chalice with both, though he wasn't 100% sure if that would work, so a Judge was called. While he issued his ruling, Norm looked through his sideboard, and after the ruling was delivered, Norm must have had a lapse of what was going on because he put his entire sideboard in his deck. It was caught immediately, and he assumed it was a Game Loss, which was the penalty that was delivered.

My question is this: Assuming you can rule out USC-Cheating, what infraction would this technically be? Deck/Decklist Problem seems the most likely, but I don't actually know. I've never seen anything like this happen before.

Edited Hank Wiest (May 18, 2015 10:56:15 AM)

May 18, 2015 10:57:35 AM

Jonas Drieghe
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy))

BeNeLux

Sideboard shuffled into maindeck

Originally posted by IPG 3.5 Deck/Decklist Problem - Examples:

F. A player looking at her sideboard during a game fails to keep it clearly separate from her deck.
So yes, this is a clear example of D/DLP with Game Loss as the penalty.

May 18, 2015 11:15:52 AM

Hank Wiest
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy)), Scorekeeper

USA - Northeast

Sideboard shuffled into maindeck

Originally posted by Jonas Drieghe:


Ahh, perfect. Thanks.