Time Limits, End of Round & Extra Turns

Competitive best-of-three rounds commonly run 50 minutes. Any time a judge consumes — a ruling, a deck check, an investigation — is returned to the affected match as a time extension. Judges should announce extensions clearly so the scorekeeper and players agree on the clock.

When time is called during a game, you do not stop immediately. Instead:

1. The player whose turn it is finishes that turn.
2. Then five additional turns are played in total.
3. If no one has won the game by the end of those turns, that game is a draw.

The match result is then decided by games won; an unfinished game counts as a draw for match purposes.

Slow Play — playing too slowly or taking excessive time — is a Tournament Error carrying a Warning (plus, often, a time extension). But intentionally wasting time to run out the clock for an advantage is Stalling, which is a form of Cheating (Disqualification). The line is intent: careless slowness vs. deliberate clock abuse.

A player may concede a game or match at any time for any personal reason. What players may not do is decide the outcome by an outside incentive (bribery) or a random method. Once time and any extra turns are done, the players report the correct result; a judge confirms edge cases (e.g. a game that ended exactly as the last extra turn completed).