Kooper Koushiro
New Member
Marnie brings the new action of bottom-decking the hand and drawing straight from the top, a new middle ground between discard-draw and shuffle-draw. Since players have been accustomed to opponent's card effects that reset their hand being a shuffle-draw (Judge, N, Reset Stamp, etc.) ever since Imposter Professor Oak in Base Set, there will inevitably be many cases where a player incorrectly shuffles their hand into their deck rather than place it at the bottom.
Normally when a player shuffles their hand into their deck when they should not, it is a Game Play Error: Severe and almost certainly a Game Loss for the irreparable game state. Unlike every other case of this penalty, with Marnie the player's hand was going to end up in the deck, and they would be drawing a new hand. Obviously, there is the major difference of being unable to redraw cards already in hand (barring a low deck+hand size) and destroying any effects that had manipulated the top card of a player's deck.
Is there any room for leniency in shuffling the hand in with Marnie being anything less than a Game Loss, perhaps at a Tier 1 event at least?
Normally when a player shuffles their hand into their deck when they should not, it is a Game Play Error: Severe and almost certainly a Game Loss for the irreparable game state. Unlike every other case of this penalty, with Marnie the player's hand was going to end up in the deck, and they would be drawing a new hand. Obviously, there is the major difference of being unable to redraw cards already in hand (barring a low deck+hand size) and destroying any effects that had manipulated the top card of a player's deck.
Is there any room for leniency in shuffling the hand in with Marnie being anything less than a Game Loss, perhaps at a Tier 1 event at least?