ALL ORGANIZERS
Significant changes made to the
Magic Tournament Rules
The latest update of the Magic Tournament Rules was released on September 20. All organizers should read through the rules and familiarize themselves with the changes. There is one change that is of special note to Organizers and Judges everywhere:
Section 1.4 — Participation Eligibility
Tournament officials and other staff of a tournament (including the Tournament Organizer and Scorekeeper) may participate in a DCI-sanctioned tournament of which they are a tournament official or staff if (and only if) the tournament is of the following event types:
Friday Night Magic
Prerelease
Launch Party
Magic Game Day
Other non-Premier Magic Tournament
If tournament officials and other staff play in the event, it must be run at Regular REL. If tournament officials play in the event and the event it not one of the allowed event types list above, the event will be invalidated.<
Pretty simple and quite exciting! If you are the judge, organizer, or scorekeeper of a Friday Night Magic, Prerelease, Launch Party, Magic Game Day, or regular sanctioned tournament, you will soon be allowed to play in that event. All tournament officials are reminded that they are required to officiate events fairly and without regard to their own self-interest. This change in eligibility goes into affect October 1, 2009. If tournament officials play in any of their own events they run before that date, the events will be invalidated. Enjoy those Zendikar Launch Parties!
Of interest to all WPN Organizers and DCI tournament players are the following changes to the Magic Tournament Rules. The following changes to Limited Events go in to effect immediately:
Section 7.3 — Card Use in Limited Tournaments
Other than basic land, only cards from the expansions of the boosters opened (and only cards opened in that player’s pool) may be used in a player’s deck. For example, in a Magic 2010 Sealed Deck tournament, any card in a booster other then the Magic 2010 game cards received by the player and basic land may not be used in a player’s deck during that tournament.
Section 7.5 — Sealed Deck Swap
In Sealed Deck tournaments, the Head Judge may require players to perform a deck swap prior to deck construction. Players receive unopened product and register the contents (except basic land cards) on deck lists. Any card in a booster that is not a card from the expansion of the opened booster is retained by the player that registers the cards (example: a player that registers the contents of a booster during a deck swap keeps the token card, if any). Players who drop from the tournament before fulfilling this duty will receive a match loss in the first round. Tournament Officials then collect the recorded card pools and re-distribute them randomly. A player may randomly receive the product he or she registered. The Head Judge should require players to sort the cards they register according to some criteria (e.g. color and then alphabetically) to assist the player receiving the pool.
I’m having trouble getting the decklists to display as anything but a very very long list of text. So I had Mike convert it to a jpeg. Hope this shows up OK.