Can you give an example of when an opponent misses a trigger, I call a judge over, but the trigger still doesn't get resolved?
You notice that your opponent's
Yeva's Forcemage should have triggered last turn--the duration of the effect would have already expired, so it doesn't happen. Or most triggers after more than a full turn cycle has passed since they were supposed to trigger--if it's been too long, causing the triggers to happen tends to just damage the game even more than it already is.
It's actually much easier to list when your opponent's missed trigger
will happen:
- There's a default action linked to a choice the controller was supposed to make. (X happens unless you do Y...) The default will happen--your choice of now or at the beginning of the next phase.
- It's a delayed trigger that changes the zone of an object. (Exiling Geist of Saint Traft's token.) Again, your choice of whether it happens now or at the beginning of the next phase.
- It's been less than a full turn cycle, the duration hasn't expired, and you, the player's opponent, want their trigger to happen. It's put on the stack. (Some caveats apply about what it can do--if it tells them to sacrifice a creature, for example, they can't sacrifice a creature that wasn't around when the trigger should have resolved.)
How about when that situation occurs and also the trigger is not considered generally detrimental?
All of what I just said above applies no matter whether the trigger's detrimental or not. The
only thing that the trigger being generally detrimental or not affects is whether or not the Judge issues a Warning.
Would there ever be a situation where you had to prove the opponent was intentionally missing a trigger?
No. If you suspect that your opponent's doing that, you can tell the judge of your suspicion if you like, but that's as far as it goes.
If the judge believes your opponent is missing their triggers intentionally and that they know that it's against the rules to do so, that belief is enough to issue a DQ. Judges don't need proof.