JudgeCast #299 – Event Management with Jared Sylva

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Have you ever wondered about the planning that goes on before an event? Join Bryan, Charles, and special guest Jared Sylva from Star City Games to discuss Event Management with a focus on SCG Con Baltimore.

For information on upcoming SCGCons, check out https://scgcon.starcitygames.com/ and look for events:

  • Columbus Sep. 1 – 3
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Oct. 20 – 22
  • Pittsburgh Nov. 10 – 12

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding judging for SCG events, please email judge@starcitygames.com or join the SCG Judge Discord.

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JudgeCast #298 – Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth Release Notes

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Bryan and Charles welcome back Marcos Sanchez to talk about interesting cards from the newest Straight to Modern set to come out of Wizards. Join us as we take a tour of the Shire, take a shortcut to mushrooms before skulking through Mirkwood and wondering just how many different Gandalfs are in this set.

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JudgeCast #297 : Grab Bag

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In this episode Bryan and Charles discuss several smaller “bite size topics” while we gear up for the LoTR Prerelease episode. We go over:

  • What is a Called Draft and should I do one at my RCQ
  • Answering Judge Questions Outside of an Event
  • Giving Too Much Negative Feedback
  • MagicKids by Weirdcards in the Partnership Education track of Judge Academy
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JudgeCast #296 – Three Headed Two Headed Giant talks

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Join Bryan and Charles with special guest Vona to talk about 2HG. And not just the rules, on no, dear listener, we talk about special considerations in running 2HG events, from the logistics to the pack distribution to increased time in investigations. Give it a listen, and you might learn a bit about why we dont do Comp Rel 2HG events anymore.

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JudgeCast #294 – March of the Machines Release Notes

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Want to know how battles work? what about transforming tokens? How about Copy effects and Backup. We got you covered. If you also want to know the lore of Segovia and listen to Bryan yell at clouds, we have you covered there too.

Its a Release Notes episode. We talk nonsense.

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JudgeCast #292 – Slow Play: I done told ya’ once already…

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In this episode Bryan and Charles talk about one of the more subjective infractions in the IPG; Slow Play. We talk about its definition, it’s subjectivity, why it can’t have an objective definition and how to deal with players that might get upset you give them Slow Play. We even talk about Chess Clocks. No, really. Thats been a suggestion.


And, to play into the theme, this episode gets a Warning for being a day late.

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JudgeCast #290 – Rules and Reddit

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In this episode, Brian and Charles go over the few rules updated with All Will Be One and then we delve into a smorgasbord of recent reddit threads that have caught our eye while we wait for MagicCon Philly.

Topic 1 – Hold Priority: https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/10xqd6x/players_that_hold_priority_for_a_whole_phase/

Topic 2: Card quality/differences in general: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10zxfem/lots_of_art_with_these_weird_wiggly_lines_is_this/

Topic 3: Placeholders as Proxies?:
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10q3g57/are_mdfc_placeholder_cards_proxies/

Topic 4: How to prepare for your first Magic convention
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10zvzo6/how_to_prepare_for_first_magic_convention/

Topic 4: Card art with a side of dong
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10pcvne/wizards_what_the_hell/
Potentially NSFW

Topic 5: Magic is expensive, yo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10y2u7w/frustrated_magic_the_gathering_fans_say_hasbro/

Topic 6: Weird Judge Call
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/10w5c0j/scg_indy_judge_call_tldr_there_are_scumbags/

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