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Coming from playing Magic professionally and having watched some PTCG events - are 50 minute rounds really enough?
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I come from playing Magic for a long time and shortly before I retired they switched to 60 minute BO3s from 50 minutes. It's a bit disconcerting to watch coverage of big PTCG events and most people toward the end of the tournament are x-x-2 or x-x-3 organically and a lot of the matches on camera would almost certainly have drawn if they went to a game 3 and that is with the players playing fast. I can't imagine how many draws someone like me who has to sit and think about my decisions often because I don't have the same experience level would get. My long-time Magic buddy played a PTCG tournament and got 3 draws in a row on round time. He's not a particularly slow player by any means. Magic rounds usually did not go to time with 50 minutes and involved a lot less shuffling in general, and even they deemed it necessary to add 10 minutes to the round clock. I feel like that would alleviate a lot of those natural draws. Nobody likes drawing unintentionally so I am surprised at the round timer.

Anyway I'm sure this has been talked to death and I don't know what the consensus is among the community since I'm new to this incredibly deep and complex game, but that seems genuinely odd to me. Adding 10 mins to the round clock ends up adding less time to tournaments than it may seem and even at absolute worst it adds about an hour and a half to a 9 round event.

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