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Catch cheaters

Nov. 28, 2015 07:07:59 PM

Scott Marshall
Forum Moderator
Judge (Level 4 (Judge Foundry)), Hall of Fame

USA - Southwest

Catch cheaters

Originally posted by Matt Cooper:

if someone thought a player had, say, one copy of Jace, Vryn's Prodigy in their deckbox but had three checklist cards
While unusual, it is acceptable to verify things such as this during a game.

Some (many?) of the concerns an opponent may notice are things that are best dealt with right away. I'd much rather pause a game long enough to glance through a deck and deckbox, than to say “don't worry about it yet, we'll look later”. The player would hear that as “we don't care if a cheater beats you this game, we'll try and catch him later”.

d:^D

Nov. 28, 2015 07:39:23 PM

Matt Cooper
Judge (Level 1 (Judge Academy))

USA - Northeast

Catch cheaters

That line of thought makes sense to me. Thank you!

Nov. 28, 2015 10:07:50 PM

john bai
Judge (Level 1 (Judge Academy))

Canada - Western Provinces

Catch cheaters

Just had a interesting thought about DQ two players at same time.


How if a player have stealing a card from an opponent, but ending up by realize the card is actually a fake card.
(instead of saying he was tring to steal something, the player says “I was just tring to tell you, judge, my opponent had a fake card! ”then why you tell me at the time we found you have the card?"

If that was the case, do the player who was stealing the card still break tournament policy?


—john

Edited john bai (Dec. 1, 2015 10:21:33 PM)

Nov. 29, 2015 03:44:00 PM

Scott Marshall
Forum Moderator
Judge (Level 4 (Judge Foundry)), Hall of Fame

USA - Southwest

Catch cheaters

Yes, it's an interesting thought, but it's unlikely to ever happen.

d:^D