Is there a time limit for shuffling your deck before a game in tournaments?
Asked by Legendinc 13 years ago
I'm not talking about your local FNM or anything but something like Grand Prix or Worlds.
Is there a time limit to how long a person can shuffle their deck before the start of a match/game in a tournament?
I'm asking this question because I'm the type of player that has to shuffle his deck thoroughly before & after every game, sometimes doing two power shuffles in piles of 6 or 10.
Why? because that's how I play, and I don't like land clumping.
power shuffling is just another name for pile shuffling.
here is an example of pile/power shuffling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnULsmjX4VA
January 20, 2011 12:36 a.m.
i call it power shuffling by force of habit; my magic mentor, called it that way and he taught me a great deal about the game, and i've picked up a few of his quirks as my own.
January 20, 2011 12:38 a.m.
theemptyquiver says... #5
Is there some way to make the new official name of that shuffling type "Power Piles"?
I shuffle that way too, and never had a name for it, and I am going to start calling them my Power Piles, and it would be awesome if that caught on!
hahah.
(oh man I must be bored.)
January 20, 2011 12:42 a.m.
π_is_the_word says... #6
@bussmaster I'm shocked you get called on that, No one ever gets called out for taking too much time at an FNM, at my FNM we have 60-70 people per FNM and no one ever gets called out for taking too long(except when they have to go into Turns).
January 20, 2011 10:09 a.m.
.........π_is_the_word.....60-70 people per FNM???????
you lucky bastard....
January 20, 2011 10:15 a.m.
π_is_the_word says... #8
XD, Atl is a good place. And, a Pro actually works at the card shop where I play(part time).
January 20, 2011 10:35 a.m.
60-70 for FNM is a lot. There are 2 local shops and between them we probably pull 35 a week, on average, peak is probably 60. Though for prerelease/release we top 100 easily. Also, that's a huge market (city) - the 'metropolitan area' we're pulling from is about 40k people - 1 out of every thousand isn't half bad, when you think about it :P
haha...we talked about this last week after FNM...both places are REL 0, we're cool. there's no real shuffle limit - going to turns just happens.
January 20, 2011 11:51 a.m.
bussmaster says... #10
well, i get warnings for stalling which is y i know
bussmaster says... Accepted answer #1
3 minute time limit for shuffling, i know bc i get called on it a lot at FNM from the judge, and i shuffle incecently
January 20, 2011 12:11 a.m.