Flagging a Game That's Wrong: How to Fix a Bad MTG Result
Flagging tells your league commissioner that a recorded game is wrong — wrong winner, wrong players, wrong format, or a game that should not be in the record at all. The flag appears on the game's page and in the commissioner's notifications, and they decide what happens to the game.
Who can flag a game
Only players who were in the game can flag it — winners and losers alike, but not spectators, and not a commissioner who was not in the pod. Each player gets one flag per game; once yours is filed, the panel is replaced with a note that you have already flagged it. Several players can each file their own flag on the same game, and the commissioner sees all of them together.
How to flag a game
Open the game's page and scroll to Something wrong with this game?, then hit Flag Game. The form has two fields:
- Reason for flagging — one of Wrong Winner, Wrong Players, Fake Game, Wrong Deck, Wrong Format, Duplicate, or Other. Required.
- Additional details — free text, optional. Write what the record should say: who actually won, which deck was really played, which game this one duplicates.
Submit Flag files it.
What everyone sees on a flagged game
A banner goes up at the top of the game page for every visitor: This game has been flagged, with a line saying a commissioner is reviewing it. The game keeps counting while the flag is open — ratings and standings do not move until the commissioner acts.
What the commissioner can do about it
The commissioner sees a Flag Details block inside that banner: each flag's reason, who filed it, when, and their notes. Three buttons sit underneath.
- Dismiss Flag — the game stands as recorded and the flags are cleared.
- Edit Game — a form for the winner, format, sub-format, and notes. Saving clears the flags. ELO stays as it was already calculated, so a corrected winner does not move anyone's rating.
- Archive Game — pulls the game out of the standings and recalculates ELO for everyone in it. Reversible.
These buttons belong to the league's commissioner only — see The Commissioner Role: What It Can Do. Flags route to a commissioner, so a game recorded outside any league has nobody to send one to.
Who gets notified
The commissioner gets an in-app notification and an email the moment a flag is filed, plus a Discord message if the league has a webhook set up. The reason and your notes travel with it, so specific details in the form often settle the whole thing without a follow-up.
Flagging from the app
In the Nerd Leagues app, open the game and tap Flag This Game. The reasons are tappable chips rather than a dropdown and a couple are worded differently — Didn't Happen instead of Fake Game — with the same optional details box underneath. Commissioners work through flags from the league's Manage screen, under the Flags tab.
Where to go next
Recording an MTG League Game covers the form that produced the record in the first place, and How Per-League ELO Works explains what an archived game does to the standings it was counting toward.