Inadvertently playing with a banned card
Asked by MountainMan817 9 years ago
I was recently playing some casual magic (Modern format builds) at the local card shop and my opponent plays Treasure Cruise.
Now, I know that the card got banned and I could tell his U/R delver deck was going to have it and I wasn't upset that he played it in this casual setting.
But what if this had happened in a sanctioned event? I know competitors should be responsible enough to make sure their decks are legal prior to play, but would this fall on a judge for not performing a deck check? Would that player forfeit the game? the match? the tournament?!
This has never happened to me before haha
MountainMan817 says... #2
I clicked on the link to ask a question about "game rules and card interactions" as this is a question about game rules.
January 27, 2015 10:46 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
A question about tournament rules is just fine for MTG Q&A. You posted in the right place.
January 27, 2015 11:32 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
@nighthawk101: The Q&A handles any game rules questions, not just card ones.
January 27, 2015 11:32 a.m.
nighthawk101 says... #5
Huh. I could have sworn there was another thread about tournament rules and the poster was informed that the Q&A was for card questions only.
Sorry!
January 27, 2015 11:39 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #6
That poster was probably "informed" by another user who had gotten the wrong impression from another misguided response to a previous topic, and so on and so forth down the halls of history. Chicken, egg, etc.
nighthawk101 says... Accepted answer #1
That's going to depend on the REL, or Rules Enforcement Level. FNM is typically Regular REL.
This is covered in section 3.9 of this. The listed penalty for a Deck/Decklist Problem (which includes having illegal cards for the format) is a Game Loss. However, at Regular REL, the judge may choose to downgrade that penalty.
Either way, the illegal cards will be removed. The guide says to replace them with basic lands, but again, that is at the discretion of the judge at Regular REL.
Also, this isn't a card rules question and should not be asked in the Q&A.
January 27, 2015 10:37 a.m.