In this episode Charles and Marcos troll Bryan by making him hype his least favorite infraction: Hidden Card Error, aka HCE, aka GRV-Private, aka Super Obnoxious Error.
We go over how to recognize when HCE has occurred and when it hasn’t as well as the flow chart that handles all the exceptions and variables.

It’s a fun time.

If your last name is De Sade.

Are you expecting a racing pun here? Too bad, because our special guest, Perry Kraker used them all in the episode. Like I would have to resort to Smokey and the Bandit, Days of Thunder, or maybe even Christine puns. And no one wants that. Join Bryan, Charles, and Perry as we talk about all the mechanics in Aetherdrift, and several of the cards you might see in your prerelease.

Aetherdrift Missed Trigger Guide: Aetherdrift Missed Triggers Guide – Rules Resources

Hello and Welcome to JudgeCast.
Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we take a somewhat tongue-in-cheek take on the Top 10 worst rules/mechanics in Magic. We pull from the IPG, MTR, and Comprehensive Rules on this tour-de-force of utter nonsense. We talk about rules, mechanics, and policy that are hard to keep straight or cause problems with judges or events.

And no, banding does not make the list. Get out of here. Banding is easy.

Whether you are an judge candidate trying to learn the comprehensive rules, or an established L1 trying to learn the IPG, there are certain approaches that can help you learn the materials. One of those approaches involves listening to this podcast, but there are others as well. Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos talk about study tips and advice in tackling the massive amounts of documentation out there and how you can best make use of whats available.

Links mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@JudgingFtW – Rules YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@keepingitcasualmtg – Rules and occasional MTG Skit Rules channel
https://www.cranial-insertion.com/ – Weekly Rules questions
https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/ipg/ – Annotated IPG – Line by Line deconstruction of the Magic Infraction Procedure Guide

Happy Festivus listeners! Bryan, Charles, and Marcos are feeling festive, and you all know what that means. Time for an airing of grievances! Modeled after the incredibly relevant and timely episode of Seinfeld from 1997, we share how we find tinsel too distracting, how you’ve all disappointed us in the last year, and finish off with the feats of strength, where we wrestle an actual bear cub before the festivities can properly begin.

Or you know, we share our accomplishments over the last year in our feats of strength, share things that we have genuine grievances over, and round things off with a Festivus Miracle because we like positive endings, even when we make the theme of an episode “airing grievances.” Happy Holidays and looking forward to even more JudgeCast shenanigans in 2025!!

Links:

Pendragon: https://sites.google.com/view/pendragonmtg/basic-rules-guidelines

Pendragon Discord: https://bit.ly/PendragonMTGDiscord

Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we talk about the things you can do to prepare for a big event. Starting with the application itself, we talk about all phases that lead up to the big day. Be sure to share your own tips via skeet or eXcreet.

Links referenced:

Annotated IPG: Magic Infraction Procedure Guide – Rules Resources

Academy Ruins: Academy Ruins

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Warning: This episode is light on technical rules/policy content.

In the spirit of the US Thanksgiving holiday, Bryan, Charles, and Marcos look back over the last year and reflect on what we are thankful for within the Judging and larger M:TG community. It’s a bit sappy, but each host brings several items we are thankful for, and some of us didn’t even need to stretch or say the same thing twice only with different words.

If you want to share something you are thankful for, join our discord at https://discord.gg/hQd48guKFR

Also, since BlueSky is more of a thing now
@judgecast.bsky.social
@mtgdad.bsky.social
@mj6music.bsky.social
@bprill.bsky.social

Join Charles and Marcos as they discuss the ins and outs of Magics newest set, Foundations. They take a leisurely tour of the returning mechanics and several of the cards that you might have rules questions about. Its good to have a Magic set that actually feels like Magic.

Here at JudgeCast we have multiple traditions. One of those traditions is having a part 2 after a part 1. This here is part 2 of our two part episode on types. Join Bryan, Charles, and not Marcos as we talk about all your favorite card types, as long as they start with a letter between L and Z. And then all your favorite super types. Listen to Bryan fumble-bumble around those planechase/archenemy types he loves so much.

It seems we have a tradition here on JudgeCast. Every 5 years we do a two-part series on Card Types. However, in the last five years the game has added several new types and subtypes (Like Dungeons, and Battles, and Sagas). Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we talk about all your favorite card types, as long as they start with a letter between A and I.

Be sure to join us for Part 2 where we finish up the types, including the weird Archenemy ones, talk about super types, and some of the rules around type changing.