Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 9 segments
Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful…uh…section of the IPG. Join Bryan, Charles, Marcos, the Professor and Mary Ann as we tackle the parts of Unsporting Conduct not covered…
Brian PrillamanHost
Marcos SanchezHost
Charles FeatherHost
A player uses or offers to use a method that is not part of the current game, including actions not legal in the current game, to determine the outcome of a game or match, or uses language designed to trick someone who may not know it's against the rules to make such an offer.
If a player is aware that what they're doing was against the rules, the infraction is unsporting conduct, cheating.
But the material part of this is player uses or offers to use a method that is not part of the current game.
They may offer to look at the top cards of the libraries and see which card has a higher mana value.
I just use it as part of my opening announcements when I'm telling people not to do this.
They offer some other method other than outright playing the game of Magic or simply offering the draw.
Touching on the language here a little bit, it says a player uses or offers to use a method that's not part of the current game.
So when Charles was saying, I flip over the top card, let's compare top cards of the library and see whoever's got the highest converted mana cost of cards.
That's... part of the current game but that's not an action that's legal in the current game okay offering to roll a dice is probably one of the most common or it says or uses language designed to trick someone who may not know okay so if you're just like oh it looks like we're gonna end in a draw if only there was some way that this game wouldn't end in a draw or we could determine the winner you know, that's kind of inviting someone to be like, oh, well, you know, my very first PTQ that I was head judge for in round two, I had an improperly determining winner situation because
Um, it happened in round two because player one, who was a pro, okay, was encouraged their opponent was like, hey man, uh, could you play a little faster? We, I'd really like to finish this match before time runs out.
A player uses or offers to use a method that is not part of the current game, including actions not legal in the current game, to determine the outcome of a game or match, or uses language designed to trick someone who may not know it's against the rules to make such an offer.
If a player is aware that what they're doing was against the rules, the infraction is unsporting conduct, cheating.
But the material part of this is player uses or offers to use a method that is not part of the current game.
They may offer to look at the top cards of the libraries and see which card has a higher mana value.
I just use it as part of my opening announcements when I'm telling people not to do this.
They offer some other method other than outright playing the game of Magic or simply offering the draw.
Touching on the language here a little bit, it says a player uses or offers to use a method that's not part of the current game.
So when Charles was saying, I flip over the top card, let's compare top cards of the library and see whoever's got the highest converted mana cost of cards.
That's... part of the current game but that's not an action that's legal in the current game okay offering to roll a dice is probably one of the most common or it says or uses language designed to trick someone who may not know okay so if you're just like oh it looks like we're gonna end in a draw if only there was some way that this game wouldn't end in a draw or we could determine the winner you know, that's kind of inviting someone to be like, oh, well, you know, my very first PTQ that I was head judge for in round two, I had an improperly determining winner situation because
Um, it happened in round two because player one, who was a pro, okay, was encouraged their opponent was like, hey man, uh, could you play a little faster? We, I'd really like to finish this match before time runs out.
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