Welcome to Level 1
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Hello Magic Judge!
First of all, congratulations on your work to become a judge, and welcome to the awesome team of judges! We are the group of people who love the game so much, so we want others to enjoy the game as much as we do. Here are some first steps and useful things to know about.
Inform your local player community
The first thing you want to do is to inform your local stores and players about your advancement, so they know to ask you whenever they have questions. You can still play Regular REL tournaments and act as judge the same time, to help out the tournament by answering questions. You can still play higher level tournaments, as long as you don't play and judge the same tournament.
You can find your local stores using the Wizards Event Locator
Contact your local judge community and regional coordinators
You also want to contact your local judge group, and interact with them regularly. You will be able to find out updates and changes with them, and help each other to be better judges. Your regional coordinator has most regional information which you are looking for. If you have suggestions on how to improve magic for your local community, or ideas and suggestions on the program, your regional coordinator can also help you on those. Also check out the list of local judge sites and mailing lists.
Next step: Grand Prix Trials (GPTs), National Qualifiers (NQs) and other Competitive REL events
As a judge, stores may want your help on some Competitive REL events that requires a judge, such like GPTs and National Qualifiers. You will need some extra studies for those events, as they are no longer just for fun, but for invitation or byes at large events. The Magic Infractions Procedure Guide (MIPG) is a document that tells judges on how to handle issues and which penalty they will get for those mistakes, as well as how to fix it. The MIPG can be found at the document center. Translated documents can be found on dcirules.org.
Also to run events Wizards Event Reporter is needed, WER, download and guide
Other useful tools
There are also some other very useful tools that will help you as a judge - starting with this very wiki! (Look around, there's a lot of good stuff here.)
Judge Center
You might have used the judge center before, it has practice exams, and you will submit your investigation reports and review for other judges here later.
Foldable Judging Quick Notes
These notes have a lot of information that you will want to check during an event, they are useful to have printed out with you for events.
DCIJUDGE-L
The judge mailing list, you can check out the mailing list history here and post either here or via email. You should be added to both this and the MTGRULES-L within about a week of being certified. If you login and set your mode to "NODIGEST" you will receive emails as they are sent, rather than as one huge one per day. This means that you can join in conversations and also most email clients thread the emails nicely by subject.
IRC
Want to talk to other judges online? Have questions that need immediately answers? You can join us on IRC judge channel! Get instant access through the web interface at chat.magicjudges.org
Alternatively get an IRC client and find us under EFnet, channels #mtgjudge and #mtgrules. Some ways to get on IRC: MIRC, a downloadable client, Mibbit, a web based interface.
There are a lot more resources than what we have listed. If you are interested on knowing them, you can either check out the rest of this judge wiki or have a look on the official Wizards judge page
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any other judges, we are all members of this family, we love to help each other out! Keep in mind, we are here to help the players, please be their best friends and enjoy the game together!
