I didn't see anything about it in the FFG Tournament rules.

Nope. You turn in a decklist at the beginning of a tournament. The tournament organizer keeps that decklist. If anyone challenges your deck (saying something like "I think this guy put in cards between last round and this round") then the tournament organizer compares your physical deck to the decklist you turned in.

If you're going to exchange a decklist befor playing, why not just hand the deck to your opponent and let them look through it?

ktom said:

Because they shouldn't get their grubby little paws on your cards.

The Old Man said:

Seriously!

Do you know how many germs most people have on their hands? Its truly shocking!

Like Staton said - decklist goes to teh TD. Teh TD should NOT be playing in the tournament. Deck lisst usually checkd at the cut round by people no longer in teh running, unless a legality question coems up at some point is Swiss.

No opponent hsould ever be allowed to see a deck list.

It's off topic, I know, but since the original question has been answered pretty solidly, am I the only one that chuckles at the screen name "The Old Man" but an avatar of Romo Lampkin? Either way, BSG rules.

Stag Lord said:

Isn't that a tad radical? I don't think it's a problem if the TO plays in the tourney, as long as there's a second TO/judge present to make rulings for the games the first TO plays.

of course, no TO should peruse any deck lists he collects if he also plays in the tourney.

Ratatoskr said:

Ratatoskr said:

So "grubby hands on my cards" aside, what's the point of playing with your deck hidden if you've told your opponent what is in it before the game? The plot phase, especially, loses a lot of its flavor if you get to look at a decklist and see which 7 plots your opponent is playing before the game even starts.

I guess that's the question I have. Exchanging decklists before a game is not part of AGoT tournmant play - resolved. But why the question? Do other games require it, and what on earth is the reason for it since deck contents are, for the most part, supposed to be hidden before they are played?

To answer a couple of questions, I've never played a non-standard deck card game before so I didn't know what the protocol is.

As for the Old Man name, it's not a reference to BSG, but a tribute to the great character Jean Shepherd created in his short stories, I use to read them in Playboy in the late 60's decades before the movie Christmas Story came out. And yeah I'm one of those who read Playboy, and yeah I guess I'm really becoming an old man.

@The Old Man

The fact that you even reference a dead tree publication such as Playboy (after we've had internet porn for 15 years) shows that you are worthy of your name

@Ktom

You should bride Damon to be TO at GenCon so you can play (sorry Damon)

Stag Lord said:

*** Sorry this post got quoted wrong (curse the new FFG forums)***

I think that was Stag Lord's point: A TO playing in a tournament can look at decklists, no opposing player should ever be allowed to view decklists.

I don't think its a problem if a TO plays in the tournament as long as a non-competing person is the only one with access to decklists before the tourney is over. I don't see any problem with a TO playing in the tourney making rules decisions.

I mean every tourney out here in California, Mathlete gets asked rules questions even if he isn't the TO- Thats what you get for being a World Champ, everyone thinks you know the rules inside and out. I notice Rings avoids this problem by being so inebriated no one thinks he can answer a question about his own name, let alone arcane FFG rules...