Bryan Prillaman

@MTGNerdGirl @Tauna_YT A non-trivial number of players feel they are entitled to the grift attempts. And if replacements were free, a more than non-trivial amount would absolutely try it.

@Tauna_YT They can. But they think people giveaway their badges and try to get a free replacements.

Someone in my group checked out of their hotel and left their Magic Con badge on accident. They insisted that he buy a new badge at full price, but deactivated the swag because he had already claimed it before on the other badge. This is greedy on so many levels.

@ScottLarabee @GenTXer2 If transformers the movie had a sequel where Hot Rod ran away from his responsibilities and pretended to be a sports car for a dude going clubbing…this would be playing on his radio.

When I transition to the 80s, I want to showcase as many albums as possible. So... Please name ONE 80s album that is little known but you love & are sure others will too. I'll highlight one per day. Here's to discovering new music together!

Not real but it should be

@532atMTGO I don’t like the fact that the “mistake” of the mulldrifter is only realized when the cards are revealed to the opponent.

Questionable head judge ruling at Paupergeddon. 🤔 Played Friday Team Pauper Trios and had a ruling I strongly disagreed with. Opponent casts Preordain: puts 1 top, 1 bottom, draws a card. A few seconds later, he changes his mind and tries to put both on top. He grabs the “bottom” card plus one from his hand and starts resolving again. I stop him - he already mixed the drawn card into his hand. Judge call → ruling: reveal two cards and I re-resolve his Preordain. Here’s the issue: one of those cards was Mulldrifter he had snapped that same turn, so I knew it wasn’t from the Preordain. The missing card was still somewhere in hand. Judge says it doesn’t matter because “he’ll draw both anyway next turn.” I appeal. After ~25 minutes, opponent even admits he put the wrong card into the pile… ruling stays the same because it was a “mistake”. So as I understand it:
• If he goes 1 top / 1 bottom → fine
• But if he switches to 2 top → he effectively gains access to an extra unknown card if I put Mulldrifter on top. Feels like turning Preordain into small Brainstorm (draw two, put one back). Am I missing something here? Was the ruling correct? @fireshoes

@SamuelHBlack @woke_aesthetics I’ve never heard of a PT player negotiating with their opponent that they would deliberately not try to until next turn.

@woke_aesthetics I promise the games it leads to can take this long if actions are happening as fast as they do at the PT

Designed a deck to maximize my chances of winning in untimed rounds in top 16. Unfortunately, top 16 isn’t untimed—it’s 3 hours, then the highest remaining seat wins. I reached an unassailable position, but ran out of time. I was too focused on my game rather than the tournament-

@fivewithflores I posted a couple weeks ago on FB “he’s so fucking stupid. He’s so stupid you know who I’m talking about without context”

If someone just blurted out “What a fucking ass clown” Do you think you’d know who they were talking about without any other context?

@solarfren69420 @GroovyBruce With all due respect, which is none, what the fuck is wrong with you?

@GroovyBruce we need more evil dead, imagine playing evil dead while u have cancer and making it part of the story

@Jenn_the_Judge @SenFettermanPA I mean, they clearly got something on him. He is definitely compromised in some way.

@SenFettermanPA So you're like for sure in the files, right?

Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.

Have you ever seen the word “hunker” used and not followed by the word “down”?

@SaffronOlive Very glad they didn’t do the hybrid change. They might argue that it’s an *or* but they clearly mean for it to be played as an *and* with how it works in any environment outside of limited.

Commander ban list update! Also they are holding off on the hybrid changes for now but we'll revisit the topic and Farewell is a gamechanger now. magic.wizards.com/en/news/announ…

Was able to obtain a copy of Twelve Months early. Looks like I won’t need to take Tuesday off.

@Jenn_the_Judge @SonRebell Kinda sounded like a threat..

@SonRebell If I'm ever hosting cEDH at 1AM I want you to shoot me, Rebell.

Hey @Jenn_the_Judge I want to inquire holidays hours Will yall be open on 1am Christmas Day? I have a pod of 4 to play out a finals for our online cedh league in person

@SaffronOlive @ChefGreginald It is. If they cared, they wouldn’t have killed the legacy program, or Judge Academy, or go two years without even acknowledging judges. The people that cared, are the folks who busted their asses to keep the lights on and the wheels on the bus after wotc tried to wreck it.

@ChefGreginald Hmm, yeah, I guess that's fair.

Wizards hiring a judge program coordinator is a pretty big deal. At a minimum it sends a message that they do care about competitive integrity and organized play.

@OMGBeardd @PlayMTG I’m referring to the approach of telling people they are wrong and they don’t understand something. You can correct and educate without making it confrontational or breaking etiquette.

@BryanPrillaman @PlayMTG I was more referring to instances where rules interactions are shutting down their deck rather than being synergy.

Meet the new Judge Program Manager for Magic: The Gathering, Samma Harr!

It’s very frustrating watch people, including well known content creators, make comments about judges and the judge program as though they actually have a clue as to what’s going on.

@OMGBeardd @PlayMTG Yes. It is a breach of social etiquette to tell someone they built their deck wrong because they don’t understand the game.

@PlayMTG Commander regularly tests that knowledge but it feels perverse or unwelcome to actually apply it to ingame situations because it almost feels like a breach of social etiquette to tell someone they've built their deck completely wrong because they don't understand the game.

@DrStevenPhD @NikachuMTG It’s a strong indication they know something is more involved & the judge should ask something like “you seem to think something more is at play. Is there a rules question you’re curious about?” There could be other factors like a leyline that’s the real ? behind the ?

@NikachuMTG No one is taking into account that the very act of asking the question shows the player knows the context of the situation and understands the rules enough that saying "yes" or "no" is not advice/coaching.

I don’t even understand how this is a debate. I expect the judge to say “No” and I don’t see how that’s such a big deal or strategic advice. “If I play Lightning Bolt, does Goyf die?” Is a very different question from “How do I kill this Goyf with Lightning Bolt?”

@HanweirGarrison “You seem to think there’s something more about this interaction. Is there a specific rules question you have?” Or variant. it might feel stupid cause you know what the players asking. But you don’t. Ur assuming. & assuming they didn’t leave out another relevant interaction.

There’s a 2/3 Tarmogoyf on the board with no instant in graveyard. You ask a judge “if I bolt that goyf, will it die?” How do you want the judge to answer?

@MissouriMTG @KodiakTheZodiak You mean those 2 sodas and 3 bags of Doritos a month isn’t enough? How very elitist of you.

@KodiakTheZodiak You're all good then because you're actually spending money at a LGS. It's mainly people spending nothing complaining that the tweet is about.

Kinda annoyed at a couple cedh people lately, as they buy nothing, proxy everything, and complain that they aren't catered to at one of the shops. Of course you aren't, a monthly tournament doesn't keep the lights on.

@MissouriMTG Just give them proxy prizes too. And they can use proxy tables to play on and enjoy proxy AC/Heating.