During round 2 of Draft there was a moment where you were explaining something to the table on the left of the screen. It seemed pretty in depth because you were making a lot of gestures for a solid minute. I was pretty curious what was going on if you could share?
(The call in question is shown from 33:10 to 34:00 in the video above.)
What happened here is that a couple of turns before I became involved, Paul Rietzl had used Disappearing Act to counter Steve Rubin’s Aetherborn Marauder:
I don’t recall what permanent Rietzl returned to his hand for the additional cost for Disappearing Act. It might have been a Prophetic Prism.
Anyway, what happened is that Aetherborn Marauder ended up in Rubin’s hand instead of his graveyard and then he tried to cast it again on a later turn, at which point Rietzl realized that it had gone to the wrong place. That’s when I became involved.
When taking the call, I verified what had happened during the resolution of Disappearing Act and what had happened since then. It’s understandable that the Aetherborn Marauder could end up in Rubin’s hand since a card was also going to Rietzl’s hand and because Aether Tradewinds is also in the format as a blue 3-drop with a similar effect. Because of this, I didn’t think that Rubin was cheating and so I ruled the situation as a GRV for both players since Rubin made the error during the resolution of Rietzl’s spell and both players were thus equally responsible for for the error.
The video cuts to the situation where I’m applying the fix, which is a simple backup of reversing the casting of Aetherborn Marauder and then applying the partial fix allowed by the IPG to move it to the zone where it should have been in the first place. Once the fix is applied, I first verify that neither had received any previous penalties in the previous round, then proceed to tell the players that each is receiving a warning for a GRV and explain why. I then instruct the players to resume play and tell them that they’ll receive an appropriate time extension.
