Nicolas Prail

Finished 42nd at the last Relic Fest (982p) with Slimefoot ! It's incredible to see what this community can achieve for the format! People from all over the world come to Toulouse to take part in this event! “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

7/2 at the last Relic Fest with Slimefoot Qualified for day 2, now it's chicha time for my friends birthday 🦧

Dear Duel Commander players, Update of the DC Banlist for the 28th of September: 📘 GLOBAL GAME RULES CHANGES • No changes. 📘 INDIVIDUAL BANNED AND RESTRICTED CARD CHANGES • No changes 📘 OTHER CHANGES • Mystery Booster Commander Edition will be legal January 1st, 2027.

I think one of my opponents cheated against me—or used an angle shoot—and that the ruling protected him during the Modern PTQ at Magic Con Amsterdam. He (we were both French-speaking, and the game was being played in French) attacked me with a Ragavan, an Ocelot, and a Guide while he had two energy. I decided to cast KCommand for 4 mana on his Ocelot and draw a card (he asked me to clarify my modes, and I confirmed my choice). In response, he decided to cast Galvanic Discharge on his Ocelot to gain 3 energy and claimed that his Guide’s trigger was still on the stack to target his Ragavan. Disagreeing with this situation —since I believed his trigger had resolved (without having any effect and without being verbalized, because my opponent only had two energy in his pool) before my KCommand—I called the judge and then the Head Judge, both of whom ruled in his favor. The main argument put forward is that the trigger on Guide of Souls is an invisible trigger and that, under the misstrigger policy, it can be triggered at any time before it has an impact on the game. I disagree with applying this rule to this situation, as the purpose of the rule is to protect the player with a trigger from others trying to “eat” it. In this case, in my opinion, the trigger was not overlooked but had no impact on the game and was informally resolved. I believe the rules regarding miscommunication should have been applied, and that my opponent took advantage of a deliberately ambiguous situation to gain an unfair advantage. Aside from the outcome of the game—which wasn’t all that important to me—I was really upset by the way the situation was handled (though I have no personal complaints against the HJ, with whom I was able to talk afterward), and I’m wondering about the issue of invisible triggers, which have already caused problems in the past, particularly in the case involving Sheoldred. I feel that applying this rule in this specific case completely goes against the game’s current philosophy, where we ask players to be more flexible—especially regarding minor rollbacks or missed triggers—so that the players’ gaming experience more closely resembles how games should play out online. @fireshoes