Secret decklist

If it helps LSJ ruled a printed decklist was perfectly legal in 2010 at the Vegas tournament.

NikolajWendt wrote:

Are you allowed to have a list of your entire deck lying next to you while playing (in a tournament)?

Of course you can have your deck list available to you while you play the game. You can also have a drink, a lump of uranium, and a picture of your kids.

The issue is whether or not they interfere with orderly, timely play of the game. If it takes you 5 seconds to look at your deck list, who could possibly care? But if you are looking at you deck list for 30 seconds every time you are initiating an action, a ruling might be made (correctly) against you. So, it seems better to know your deck list and to only refer to it occasionally than to depend upon it.

Ashur wrote:

I don´t understand why this should ever be allowed. What´s next, a written user manual for your deck?

Omg, no! Heck, new players might even want a copy of the rulebook at hand, next. This is madness!

Ashur wrote:

I don´t understand why this should ever be allowed. What´s next, a written user manual for your deck?

Can you explain to us why you believe that having a deck list used by a player would always be a negative for the game?

I take notes often when I'm playing in tournaments (mostly about bad decisions I've made or how a deck performs against other key archetypes). Those are legit. I can't see a problem with keeping a deck list with you (my memory can be crap too) but then again keeping it out of sight of others would be important.