Yeah I know, stuff like this I try and uphold. Sometimes it's hard when a ruling is hazzy in understanding and I try to explain it in a way that the player of a certain age can understand. I am only 19, but I try my best and even high level judges make mistakes. (I'll be one of them, just you watch! xD)
For example someone in a tournament of mine was using
Soul Release wrong. He was removing a total of 5 cards all together from both graveyards instead of from one and not both. I spend the next ten minutes explaining it to the player that was attempting to use it wrong on the wording for the card text. Naturally I would agree that at first glance this card can be misleading, but reading more closely and slowly for that matter can help break down the card's meaning.
"Select up to 5 cards" that part is very very basic. You can easily do that but the next part is what was hardest for me to get the player to understand. The word "either" was what he was confused on. Either is a singular word if I am not mistaken and that means one or the other and not both. So the next following words were "you or your opponent's" which to me clears up the part about the word "either" so it defines its own meaning from its own card wording. Which is pretty cool and I wish a lot more cards I come across are like that. That's just one way I've explained the card text to someone without blowing a myself up on the poor guy. After I explained it about five times to him and used my above example in asking him if the word "either" is singular, he said yes, and single means one right? So then he caught on fast after that and proceeded to continue the game.
Sometimes as judges we do have to explain it more than once in a different way. Because one explaination may be more of what someone can understand than another explaination. Heck, I am sure some of us can agree on that when started playing the game and got into it more.
