Subject: Natural Tutor (was Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:49:32 -0700
From: Robert Blackman <rhblackm@grad-ea-2.oac.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

        Just for clarity's sake, I thought I'd define a fairly well-known
cheat--fairly well known to pro players, that is. It's called "Natural
Tutor" and involves casting Natural Balance in your bloom deck and
accidentally dropping the  combo card you need into your lap so you can be
certain to go off. It's a minor bit of sleigh of hand and anyone can learn
it. It's also a variant of a previous cheat, known as the "fetch tutor"
which involved using a fetch land the same way, or the "thawing tutor."
        Finding a combo card in someone's lap should be grounds for
ejection. Especially in a deck that lends itself to cheating so well.
Sligh is hard to cheat with--bloom is easy to cheat with. I suggest that
WotC and the DCI take a much harder line on cheating--just start ejecting
people when cheating seems plausible. Yes, in the US we have a
constitutional right to the assumption of innocence in a court of law.
But, if an umpire found a piece of sandpaper and a razor sitting on a
pitching mound, I don't think he'd hesitate to eject the last pitcher...

A sport my ass. As a judge, I'm disgusted.

Bob Blackman (level 2--and ask me about the time I cheated for fun :)
rhblackm@uci.edu