Not A Bug Mulligans do not match comprehensive rules. This is particularly impactful with serum powder

byvci

Active member
A while ago a made a post saying that mulligans should go like this as per CR 103.5. p1 chooses to mulligan, p2 chooses to mulligan. Player 1 and player 2 draw new hands and BOTH choose a card to bottom BEFORE either choosies their next mulligan. The order that it happens in mtgo is different and results in information being given to players that they should not have, since p2 will know whether or not p1 kept a 6 before they choose what card to bottom from their 6.

Someone from daybreak closed the post and said that the comprehensive rules were wrong. They've gone through multiple revisions since then and the mulligan rules have remained unchanged. If the rules are still wrong, can someone provide a source from wotc? If this is true it would affect gameplay in paper, since most judges make rulings based on the CR document.

An situation that comes sometimes up in vintage dredge (and in the game ID I posted): p1 chooses to mulligan to 6, p2 chooses to mulligan to 6. P1 chooses to serum powder at 6. In mtgo the second player gets to see what cards get exiled before deciding what to bottom if they keep a 6, revealing what deck the serum powder player is running in game 1 or information about how they boarded in games 2/3.
 

ManaDrainThis

Well-known member
I think you’re right that the MTGO implementation doesn’t match the comprehensive rules. Wasn’t the proposed solution that Wotc should revise the rules to reflect the way it’s implemented in MTGO? Which obv hasn’t happened as you pointed out. Would also be curious to see where there stands.
 

byvci

Active member
This post got tagged as "not a bug". What does this mean? The game is not functioning correctly. How is this not a bug? Is the game working differently from paper intentional?
 
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