And if you have large hands you might be able to mash shuffle a sleeved 100-card deck. Unsleeved (*gasp*) commander decks can still be riffle shuffled fairly easily. If you play commander and need to shuffle 100-card behemoths, shuffling is harder. They will naturally interleave, imitating a riffle shuffle. Cut the deck in half and push one half into the other block of cards. I often shuffle at the corners/sides and then just push the cards together.Īs described in other answers, sleeved cards "mash" together easily to effectively replicate the mechanics of a riffle shuffle. You don't actually need to "bridge" the card as long as the cards are interleaving frequently and non-perfectly. Riffle shuffles are easy enough to do with practice. Just perform more riffle shuffles instead. Pile "shuffling" does not randomize cards and is a waste of time. Shuffling more does make the deck more random, but 7 (or 9) iterations is enough in practice. If you're playing commander which uses 100-card decks, you'll need to riffle shuffle 9 times to be randomized enough. If you're playing a 60 card format 7 riffle/mash shuffles are sufficient. It takes 7 riffle shuffles to randomize a deck of (52) cards. I will riffle my pauper deck but not my $1000+ EDH. It's all a balance of the level of damage you're willing to accept to your cards, and the level of randomness needed. Washing the cards also does a pretty good job of randomizing, though it looks ridiculous and takes time to spread all the cards out face down and move them around randomly with your hands. A similar effect to a riffle shuffle is the Weave or Faro Shuffle (not to be confused with mana weaving), where two halves of the deck are held with a little space between the edges of the cards for the other half's cards to slide into, this is easier with sleeves because the sleeves will create that space between the edges of the sleeves themselves. A Riffle Shuffle, taking two halves of the deck, bending them in the middle and letting them fall a card or two at a time onto eachother, does the best for reordering the deck, but since it involves bending the cards it also does damage to them over time, some people won't use this method because of it, and it should never be done to another person's cards for that reason. After that the Overhand Shuffle, sliding a few cards at a time from one hand to the other so that the cards in each group stay in the same order but the group order is changed, effectively several small cuts. As the rules state pile shuffling can't be used except at the start of the game that is perhaps the best way to start your shuffle. The best way to shuffle a deck is to use multiple different methods of shuffling one after another.
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