According to Magic the Gathering Tournament Rules

If spectators consider they’ve noticed a guidelines or coverage violation, they’re inspired to alert a decide as quickly as attainable. At Regular
or Competitive Rules Enforcement Level, spectators are permitted to
ask the gamers to pause the match whereas they alert a decide.

Player A assaults with Pyreheart Wolf into Player B’s creatureless battlefield, and doesn’t acknowledge its triggered skill. Player B casts Psionic Snoop and connives through the Declare Attackers Step, after which declares it as a blocker. At this level, Spectator C steps in and asks the gamers to pause the match whereas they alert a decide.

Just to ensure we’re all on the identical web page, there’s nothing flawed with the sport state up to now. Player A may have missed Pyreheart Wolf’s triggered skill provided that they don’t cease Player B from blocking with Psionic Snoop, and Player B is completely inside their rights to proceed with this line of play till Player A does so. Indeed, a decide could be unlikely to intervene on this state of affairs even when play proceeded and so they noticed the triggered skill being missed. However, Spectator C believes that Player B has finished one thing unlawful by blocking with a single creature, and takes motion accordingly.

Player B instantly acknowledges what’s going on, and asks whether or not Player A has any additional performs through the Declare Blockers Step. Player A asks if they need to look ahead to a decide to reach, however Player B factors out that Spectator C isn’t a event official, that subsequently the gamers are below no obligation to comply with their request to pause the match, and that they need to proceed play until and till a event official pauses the match as a result of time within the match is working down and a time extension would solely mirror the length of an precise decide interplay. The actual cause Player B needs to maneuver ahead is that even an unwarranted decide intervention at this level would seemingly end in Player A noticing Pyreheart Wolf’s triggered skill earlier than coverage considers it missed. The gamers proceed, and Player A doesn’t cease Player B from blocking with Psionic Snoop. Several sport actions later, a decide arrives and pauses the match.

Obviously the decide ought to concern a Game Player Error – Missed Trigger infraction with no penalty to Player A for lacking Pyreheart Wolf’s triggered skill, until it one way or the other turns into an Unsporting Conduct – Cheating infraction. Should the decide concern any additional infractions/penalties/further cures? Was Player B’s assertion that gamers are below no obligation to comply with the request of a spectator to pause the match appropriate, as long as the gamers don’t consider {that a} coverage violation actually is going on (or to cowl Player B’s case, a coverage violation which that participant is obligated to acknowledge, opponent’s missed triggers would not depend), or is a spectator request of this kind as binding to the gamers because the request of a event official?