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What are the appropriate penalties for various deck presentation errors in Summoner Skirmish, including: having extra sleeved cards in deck box, having 16 sideboard cards instead of 8, submitting wrong number of battlefields, having incorrect rune distribution, and having 8 incorrect main deck cards?
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Ruling: Most of the judge's calls were appropriate, though scenario 5 (8 incorrect main deck cards) should have been a Game Loss rather than Match Loss according to the rules. Scenario 2 (16 sideboard cards) was handled appropriately with a Match Loss due to the high potential for abuse, even though it's not explicitly covered by rules.
Sequence:
- Scenario 1 (4th extra Watcher): Deck presentation error warning (appropriate)
- Scenario 2 (16 sideboard cards): Match Loss and fix for later rounds (appropriate due to abuse potential)
- Scenario 3 (only 2 battlefields submitted): Deck presentation error warning (appropriate)
- Scenario 4 (7/5 runes vs 6/6): Deck presentation error warning, forced to 6/6 with proxy (appropriate)
- Scenario 5 (8 incorrect main deck cards): Should be Game Loss, not Match Loss, per rule about when restoring deck is not easily possible
Nuances:
- For scenario 1, if there were only 48 cards instead of 49, DQ would have been appropriate
- For scenario 2, the judge initially considered it harsh but the community agreed the Match Loss was justified because all 16 cards were fully sleeved in matching colors, creating too much flexibility to counter different decks
- Scenario 2 represents a gray area not explicitly covered by rules, but the potential for malicious conduct at High OPL justified the harsher penalty
- Players at High OPL are expected to know tournament rules
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