Rules & penalties

Staff consider intent, severity, harm, account history, cooperation, and evidence. Responses include guidance, warnings, duel penalties, temporary freezes, feature restrictions, rating or coin corrections, and permanent bans. Serious or repeated conduct may receive a stronger penalty immediately.

You are responsible for activity through your account. Examples clarify these rules but do not limit them.

• A minor, unintentional, repairable error may receive an instruction or warning.
• A major error that materially damages the game state or cannot be fairly repaired may result in a game loss.
• Represent public and private information honestly and follow the selected format and card pool.
• Repeating an error after instruction may increase the penalty.

• Play at a reasonable pace while reading cards, checking information, and taking notes.
• Tell your opponent when a brief interruption is necessary. Extended absence or failure to respond may cause a game or match loss.
• Intentional stalling, delaying an inevitable result, or disrupting play with table tools is cheating.
• Continue when staff instruct you unless the disputed action prevents the game from proceeding.

• Do not misrepresent rules, cards, hidden information, actions, or the game state.
• No boosting, win trading, match fixing, queue sniping, coordinated losses, alternate-account abuse, or deliberate disconnects.
• Do not exploit bugs, evade restrictions, impersonate staff, interfere with the service, or access information outside your role.
• Results, ratings, rewards, and records may be corrected when misconduct or a technical fault affected them.

• No harassment, threats, hate speech, sexual harassment, doxxing, targeted abuse, or encouragement of self-harm.
• No spam, malicious links, scams, unsolicited explicit content, or repeated unwanted messages.
• Do not badger players or use technical rules only to manufacture an unfair advantage. Good-faith questions are allowed.
• Follow staff directions during a case. Appeal without insulting or obstructing staff.

• Keep credentials private. Do not buy, sell, lend, transfer, or use accounts to evade a restriction.
• Names, images, mats, sleeves, and messages may not be hateful, explicit, deceptive, privacy-invasive, infringing, or imitate staff.
• You must have permission to use uploaded content. Staff may remove it and restrict uploads without refunding virtual coins.

Preserve the game state and explain the dispute honestly. A judge may repair the state, warn a player, issue a game or match loss, or refer the matter for account action.

One review may be requested after the first decision. An appeal does not permit delay. The reviewing Head Judge or Administrator’s decision controls that match.

These are the normal starting penalties. Staff may adjust them for intent, harm, repetition, cooperation, and account history.

A day means 24 hours from issuance. Match penalties apply to the current match; account freezes apply to the features named in the decision.

• Warning: recorded guidance about conduct or play.
• Freeze: a temporary restriction on dueling, ranked play, messaging, uploads, or other features.
• Ban: permanent loss of account and service access.
• Head Judges, Administrators, and the Owner may ban accounts within their assigned authority. Staff actions are logged and reviewable.