Pimpage; How do you do it?

[BigMac]

I also forgot to mention that by having foreign cards you have a better chance of making your opponent mess up by thinking the wording on the card is something different then what it actually is.

If i think somebody is using foreign cards for the sole reason to throw people off i would drag that to my advantage having a judge next to us explaining every single card to me. I hate people trying to get an advantage over the scrubness of others. Besides, i still think the biggest advantage you can have is the knowledge that people know you for who you are and not about how your cards look. I for one am not a big shot in any format but will never be intimidated by the least because somebody else plays with an all blackbordered deck and all kinds of Asian foils. That just means he paid a whole lot of money for cards of which there is a lot less expensive card available of that does exactly the same.

As a sidenote, people that are pimping will never be able to say to me that vintage is expensive, as they make it expensive themselves.

[forests failed you]

If there is any confusion over the oracale text of a card a player can call a judge and get it at any time.  Why is this so difficult for new players to understand?  Or, a better question is who would be dumb enough to take their oppoent's word for what a card did, rather than ask a judge?

[Bardo]

That is what judges are for. Seriously, if you don't know what something does, just ask. I've never played anybody who didn't ask the judge what my Animate Dead does (by mistake, I got an Italian one).

It's one thing to understand the rules of timing and know all the tricks with your deck and the stack, but I agree with Slack: deliberately expoiting the knowledge that your opponent can't read simplified Chinese to gain advantage is technically legal, but smarmy, at best.

And yes, I know you can call a judge to get the Oracle wording of a card, but it's still a cheap advantage. Even if the rules text of a card aren't identical to the Oracle wording, you still have a general idea of what a card does; not so if it's written in another language. Anyway, it seems like a newbie-busting tactic -- and that's not a good thing.