Hi!

A player approached me at GP New Jersey to ask if a card was tournament legal. The card was 4-way miscut Blue Elemental Blast but on closer inspection I determined it to be hand-cut from an uncut Revised sheet. I wasn't able to give him an answer other than “it's up to the head judge” because I didn't honestly know.

Are hand-cut cards authorized for sanctioned tournaments? Let's assume for this discussion that it's quite clear what the card is (only one card's title visible).

An example of hand-cut card can be viewed here:

Edited Jani Havukainen (Nov. 19, 2014 01:39:46 PM)

One issue that you can have with handcut cards is that they are almost
always not exactly the same size. Take a standard Magic card and put them
back-to-back and you will almost certainly see some card sticking out
around the edge.

This matter has raised a policy review and we will make the answer clearer in future policy update.
In the meanwhile they are considered legal, as long as they are not marked.

Andy


From: George FitzGerald
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:58 AM
To: Heckt, Andy
Subject: Re: Are hand-cut cards authorized for sanctioned tournaments? (Tournament Operations)


One issue that you can have with handcut cards is that they are almost
always not exactly the same size. Take a standard Magic card and put them
back-to-back and you will almost certainly see some card sticking out
around the edge.

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Following Andy's answer, I'm locking this thread for the time being.