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The idea is that with proper shuffling your deck will be randomized regardless of its starting state (piled or not) so piling is wasting time.
here's a demonstration:
xitter.cf/DistantCoder/status/19…
it does say in a timely manner, which I agree with, but that's one of the main gripes I have with a pile "shuffle". Everyone says "pile is fine if you also do another shuffle after" but if that's the case why pile at all? At best you're wasting time, at worst you're stacking.
A properly shuffled deck contains clumps, that is normal. As humans our minds trick us to believe that a "truly randomized" anything should be even, it's why you feel off when you take a multiple choice test and answer "D" 5 times in a row. In reality, random is/can be clumpy.
I'll engage in good faith here. The main argument against pile "shuffling" is that if you are going to shuffle after piling anyway, then spending that time just shuffling does just as good a job if not better at randomizing your deck since piling doesn't randomize, it's effectively stacking. (some people argue they are bad at shuffling, to which I say practice makes perfect).
yeah, for some reason "Pile" is listed in the accepted shuffling methods in the tournament policy. I truly think this should be changed though.
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It’s funny that he went off about infinite loops when the deck I played for the game my post was about had 0 infinites. He saw combo and assumed it was an infinite and went haywire
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