There are two things that are certain in the world; Death and Taxes. No. Not the deck. In this episode Bryan, Charles, and Marcos are joined by Former Judge and current Tax Attorney Patrick Evans. Here we talk about the extremely important topic of taxes as it pertains to judging. Whether you work FNM and the occasional RCQ, or are a weekend road warrior, or even visit the US for an event, Uncle Sam wants his cut. You, on the other hand, want to keep as much as you are entitled to. We talk about expenses, deductions, and what expectations are.
And while we can give lots of Judging advice; none of this is tax advice. Reach out to tax organizations in your state if you have any specific questions.

Check out: https://www.unitedway.org/our-impact/financial-security/my-free-taxes
for information about the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program to assist folks with their taxes for free.

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Social Media Links
Join JudgeCast on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/hQd48guKFR
JudgeCast: BlueSky – @Judgecast.bsky.social / Twitter: @JudgeCast
Bryan: BlueSky – @Bprill.bluesky.social
Charles: BlueSky – @MTGDad.bsky.social
Marcos: BlueSky – @MJ6Music.bsky.social / Twitter @MJ6Music

Credits
Editor & Intro VFX: Marcos Sanchez @MJ6Music
Artwork by Tobias Vyseri: http://www.vyseri.com/ and on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VyseriArt
Intro & Outro Music: “Seed” by Carbon Leaf. Used with permission. @carbonleafofficial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDb4ydae50

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A shortcut is a way to get one or more things done quicker, and if you have ever tried to play a technically precise game of Magic, you will know there’s a lot of things that can be done quicker.
Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we go over the tournament shortcuts found in the Magic Tournament Rules. These shortcuts are the default behavior in many situations that may arise in a game of Magic, and are designed to reduce ambiguity and protect players from other players that might want to use that ambiguity to their advantage. We go into detail for each one, even the wibbly-wobbly-timey wimey ones.

Show Notes

Social Media Links
Join JudgeCast on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/hQd48guKFR
JudgeCast: BlueSky – @Judgecast.bsky.social / Twitter: @JudgeCast
Bryan: BlueSky – @Bprill.bluesky.social
Charles: BlueSky – @MTGDad.bsky.social
Marcos: BlueSky – @MJ6Music.bsky.social / Twitter @MJ6Music

Credits
Editor & Intro VFX: Marcos Sanchez @MJ6Music
Artwork by Tobias Vyseri: http://www.vyseri.com/ and on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VyseriArt
Intro & Outro Music: “Seed” by Carbon Leaf. Used with permission. @carbonleafofficial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDb4ydae50

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Cowabunga Judges! It’s another release notes episode, and Bryan, Charles, and Marcos are here to cover new cards, rules interactions, and perhaps sneak in a pop culture reference or two while they’re at it. Keep an eye out for those Mutagen canisters though before they disappear. Um… Alliance. Okay, that should do it.

Stay tuned to the end for a special news bulletin from Charles regarding tournament fraud, and try to keep count of exactly how many other IPs we can mention while discussing everyone’s favorite turtles.

Show Notes
Release Notes: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-release-notes

Social Media Links
Join JudgeCast on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/hQd48guKFR
JudgeCast: BlueSky – @Judgecast.bsky.social / Twitter: @JudgeCast
Bryan: BlueSky – @Bprill.bluesky.social
Charles: BlueSky – @MTGDad.bsky.social
Marcos: BlueSky – @MJ6Music.bsky.social / Twitter @MJ6Music

Credits
Editor & Intro VFX: Marcos Sanchez @MJ6Music
Artwork by Tobias Vyseri: http://www.vyseri.com/ and on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VyseriArt
Intro & Outro Music: “Seed” by Carbon Leaf. Used with permission. @carbonleafofficial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDb4ydae50

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

As a player who is used to casual commander pods and the occasional Wednesday night draft, you might be curious about other events, and look to try something different. Maybe your store’s RCQ, maybe traveling to a nearby SCG CON. Either way, you’ll be surprised to see that things work a little differently when serious prizes are on the line.

Join Bryan and Marcos, as we give you our top 12 things we (as Judges) believe you (as Players) should know when going to your first Competitive REL events. Many players have the same questions, and similar problems when they are used to the ultra-laid back vibe of casual play, and run up against structures with more rigidity.

Number 6 will shock you. Or maybe it won’t. I didn’t look up what number 6 was before writing that sentence.

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we talk about attending your first big event. Maybe its a MagicCon, or an SCGCon, or a Regional Championship, or maybe, your first large event isn’t even Magic related. Judges new to these events have a lot of questions, and the JudgeCast crew take a stab at pre-answering many of them, or letting you know where to find the answers. While our background is in Magic Tournaments, many of these questions/answers are common across all game IPs, and as other games are entering the tournament space, we are having more and more folks staffing these events for the first time.

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Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we discuss cards and mechanics from the latest MTG Set, Avatar the Last Airbender. We go over important topics like how ‘How does Earthbend work’, ‘Is Firebending a mana ability’, ‘How Waterbending works with additional costs’ and ‘Is a platypus bear more or less weird than a badgermole?’.

Hopefully you are as excited for this set as we are.

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