#Note Taking - Tracking Damage Source vs Tracking Cards Played

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upper shuttle
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Howdy Howdy Howdy.

Just looking for clarification regarding note taking.

I understand note taking isnt allowed with 2 exceptions.

In regards to "the source of damage taken" and "tracking cards that have been played by your opponent."

If one were to track source of damage, could you name the specific card (lets assume its an attack card to compare to tracking cards), does this fall under current game state if say the combat chain is open, or would this be illegal notetaking? Or would you just write down something like "source- attack card"

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I put casual because this may be relevant for ongoing local judging, but also might apply to more competetive judging as well

hearty karma
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iirc marking the source of damage is ok, something crossing out 40, writing 36 snatch can help reconstruct a game state should it be needed

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Yup, this is specifically called out as acceptable note taking

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upper shuttle
hearty karma
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"the source of the change" is the card or effect

upper shuttle
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So at what point is this "tracking cards played" then, every card played has an effect, or does damage, so could you not track every effect? Shouldnt there be a hard line and not a grey area?

This is the point of my question, was wondering if when they say "source of damage" they wanted something less specific to avoid tracking cards played.

undone cloak
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Tracking cards played aren't something that you want prevent bc everybody can just check graveyard 🙂 we want prevent writing pitch stacks.

broken snow
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Well you aren't allowed to order the graveyard to prevent card tracking in your deck... So I don't know what is the final intend.

undone cloak
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Final intend is too short a time players take to do stuff like this. Game currently still takes long time.

upper shuttle
robust prism
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I think the general philosophy is to reduce unnecessary time used for writing information down. Time is a valuable resource and there is a finite amount of it.