Playing as a Judge and Things to Take Away.

Over the past couple of months, I have taken some time to play Magic: the Gathering at a competitive level. Since I started this, I have noticed things as a player that I think are very important for me to know as a judge as well. So I'm going to go over a few points of why I think every judge should play in a Competitive REL event and how it can help you grow as a judge.

Empathizing With the Players.

Empathy with the player is a very important thing when it comes to judging. It is needed for many different types of interactions when taking judge calls - from answering a simple rules question or how to deal with an upset player when giving them a game loss. recently, I played at SCG Indianapolis in the Modern PIQ and had some interesting things come up where empathizing with the player was important or where it could have helped out the situation a little more.