{"id":161,"date":"2012-05-10T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:08:40","slug":"pile-shuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/2012\/05\/10\/pile-shuffling\/","title":{"rendered":"Pile Shuffling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At a Pro Tour Qualifier (competitive REL), you&#8217;re watching Andrew shuffle for the beginning of round 1. After several different shuffles, Andrew finally does a pile shuffle, then presents his deck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and and possible fix?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[expand title=&#8221;View Answer&#8221;]<br \/>\nAndrew has done nothing wrong here. Though pile shuffling is not an\u00a0acceptable method of randomization, it doesn&#8217;t negate any previously done randomization. If Andrew&#8217;s initial randomization methods were sufficient, then the deck will still be randomized. Therefore, there is no infraction or fix required.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important to note that there is no minimum number of any type of shuffle for a deck to be considered randomized. Instead, you should look to see that the player has made a strong effort to make sure the deck is random, and has no way of knowing the position of any one card.<br \/>\n[\/expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Pro Tour Qualifier (competitive REL), you&#8217;re watching Andrew shuffle for the beginning of round 1. After several different shuffles, Andrew finally does a pile shuffle, then presents his deck. What is the appropriate infraction, penalty, and and possible fix? [expand title=&#8221;View Answer&#8221;] Andrew has done nothing wrong here. Though pile shuffling is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,18],"language":[56],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronze","tag-competitive-rel","tag-mtr","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/knowledgepool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}