Kibler has an indestructible enchantment with shroud that he always starts the game and says:If you don't shuffle your hand for 10 seconds,you lose the game.

That card flicking ability is how he keeps his wife happy.

He lost because he didn't shuffle his hand cards fast enough.

The card flicking is originally use to keep other players from identify the card you draw/planning but seasoned players often develop the habit of keep doing so, mostly because they are bored and have nothing to do while waiting the opponents

12:05 "Finally another card so I can keep flicking!!!"

but...but...when do they force of nature, savage roar???

If I ever start to flick my cards as coked out as this....shoot me.

I'm skipping through this video and all I see is shuffling lol

Looks at comments. All of them about Kibbler's Shuffling. Smile. God Damn I love his shuffling.

k guys. Let's collect money to fund a cure for kiblers cronic shuffeling.

Can confirm. The reason he flicks his cards is so the opponent can't track his deck. He also said that it was for stimulation and it is an old habit. (he said it on twitch stream).

Ben Stark of Winterfell

They flicked and shuffled $30-$80 cards in their hands so carelessly and so often that I think their value decreased to $0.25

20:04 - Kibler could have Ghost Q'ed his own manland to fizzle the Cryptic (no longer has any targets) which would mean he could then swing for lethal with his untapped creatures

Actually the shuffling of the hand comes from players who have played against others who have played hymn of tourach. The idea was to constantly be ready to just toss the two random discard cards without having to stall the game.

When will people stop commenting on the flicking, it is WAY more annoying than the actual flicking...

I love watching these guys play for a myriad of reasons. 1) They're both top level players making the quality of play much higher; 2) Their decks/ the matchup seem really cool 3) They look like they're having fun (This is very important)

I don't understand this game thank you hearthstone

Yeah, Kibler's shuffle is obnoxious. I'm trying to think of what I would do against him, since it seems wearing ear plugs and the like will effect your ability to communicate game state. Are you really forced to be tortured by the flicking sound of your opponent shuffling his hand or can you ask a judge to have him cut it out?

i dont understand what is going on

xD after i read your comment i only watched him for a few minutes and nearly went insane^^

The condition of their cards after each tournament = HEAVILY PLAYED.......so such hand shuffling

i was watching this while working, but had to stop after i realized i was going mad listening to cards flicking

Match 1 - Ben Stark vs Brian Kibler Game 1 0:35 Game 2 30:14 Game 3 56:45 Match 2 - Yuuya Watanabe vs Stanislav Cifka Game 3 1:10:12

That is the most extreme case of OCD I have ever seen in my life omg.

Kibler's suffling eventually makes me start to snicker uncontrollably.

When your nervous shuffling drowns out the audio of your opponent, you're probably doing it too much.

I remember at the beginning of my magic career when I thought the constant shuffling of cards by players was annoying at best. I then got used to it, and even did it myself. However, it seems like these players take it to the extreme. It's now annoying again :-/

. they could use a wide angle lense that is also closr to the board, in my opinion. the closest magic will come to being a sport is cue sports, like billiard i would guess. maybe they should cover the magic events more like they coveer other cue sport events ( choosing lenses for the cameras etc ).

I'm curious about this as well, although I think it falls more into that they keep their cards moving to prevent their opponent from noticing that they are focusing on a part of their hand or something like that

i got into magic the same way you did, a couple friends and i went to get physical cards and a couple weeks later we are hooked and looking forward to the next FNM, give it a shot, we play nothing like this^ these dudes are world class super fast.

Every card they touch is instantly heavily played.

Im just here to see The Kibs and their hectic card-shuffling prowess.

Don't give up because this looks intimidating! It's a great game to get into and not many (if any) people you will play against will be playing like these guys. No one is this good right when they start, if anything this should be a goal to reach for.

there is actually a tactical advantage to shuffling your hand after every single draw. one easy to follow example is top decking a land and putting it directly into play. You've just given your opponent extra information.

I'm watching this without knowing crap about Magic. Idk what's going on, and why do they keep shuffling their cards in their hands?

I love how people point out that one of the coolest guys in the game has a nervous tick.... TO THE INTERNET COMPLAIN IMMEDIATELY

i miss good magic...

Ooooh ok. Well thank you for the answer. It seems annoying when in the video the camera went back and forth with just them doing that.lol

Game 1 chaining cryptics reminds me of this guy putting splinter twin on snapcaster mage, casting cryptic 6 times then losing to wilted abzan

The anxiety kibler induces in his enemies flicking cards in instense. I could hardly bear it myself.

One of them is Louis Scott Vargas of Channel Fireball, guessing the other guy is a commentator from wizards

best part about brian only having one card in hand? not having to hear or watch that annoying hand shuffle. with that one card however, during Ben's turn he looked at that one card seven times. the memory of a goldfish this guy.

Theres shuffling your hand so opponents don't know whats there, or theres shuffling it over and over noisily and unnecessarily like Kibler does, but you really shouldn't let it affect you. Just because they shuffle their hands a fuckload it doesn't make them any less pro. It's probably a habit thats developed over time.

Whenever I play, shuffling my hand is akin to shuffling my letters when playing scrabble, Sometimes looking at the cards in a different way changes my decision. Kibler does it for nerves, and he is probably the best aggro player in the game, so I am not going to question ihm.

I would like to see more cards on screen for visual as well as rotating the cards in whose hands. I haven't played since 4th Edition so I have no clue about these cards.

shelerva, but he's going mental with it the whole time, not just around when he draws a card. As for the other guy, he's not doing it *nearly* as much. People are reacting to how insanely constantly twitchy Kibler is, not just shuffling through his hand a few times.

I love Kibler shuffling

Actually the flickering is relaxing for me.

While I do find it annoying how fast Brian shuffles everything, I kinda envy it at the same time.

Hand-shuffling seems real annoying when we watch the videos, but you hardly notice it at all in real life. Kibler gunslings at prereleases at my local shop in SD and I was able to play against him once in between rounds with a Standard deck. Not once was I bothered by his shuffling, I was too focused on my own plays and the boardstate to pay attention to it. It's just something to do with your hand, nothing more. Becomes habitual after a while.

I would get exhausted from flicking those cards all the time. That is needed only after a bounce ability, to shuffle the hand.

It helps calm your nerves. I do it all the time, probably way more than I should, it can get annoying.

First time I ever see Magic being played how it is supposed to be played. I am very confused.

It's more of a habit. A lot of people (including myself) need to be doing something with there hands while they're thinking. Also, I started doing it because I noticed that when other players did it to me, it was distracting. So it helps on that front sometimes as-well.

I've always wondered if you go to an event like this and your opponent flicks his card like crazy enought that it's actually annoying you can you actually tell him to stop? or would that sort of a dick move

Ben Stark vs Brian Kibler, this was a great match of two great planeswalkers! Both players played excellently! ^^ Great match!

I don't know who that is pretending to be kibler but he's got the card flicking down

Dude would lose his mind if he only had one card in hand 😂

My friend and I are both semi-competitive Magic Players. He tries to imitate Kibler and constantly shuffles his hand and he tries to play as quickly as possible. Which is ideal considering he has an aggro deck. The shuffling and quick, sudden movements encourage the opposing player to rush. That's the psychological angle of it. Tactically speaking, it is a great offset, it keeps the other player guessing if the shuffler has a good hand or not. (As Cody below said) The perfect way to combat this, is taking ALL the time you want and then some and to keep the cards in your hand face-down on the table when it's not your turn... And don't forget to smile. ;)

Bryan Kibler's Leonin Arbiter prevented him from searching because he didn't have two open mana to pay for the ability to search.

You must mean Stark. Kibler's shuffling is relaxing (unless you mean shuffling his hand).

*music* Do the Kibler Shuffle, the Kibler shuffle.

Really? I have never played a magic match, but they can't find a quicker way to shuffle the cards and speed the game up? Did I watch 5 minutes of shuffling?

Games like this remind me why audible hand shuffling should be against the rules.

I guess Marshall couldn't handle the European sun at 1:08:12

brians constant hand shuffling is so irritating

Yes it is

I find it interesting that they call this "breakneck speed"...this is kinda...slow to me. Obviously they are trying not to make mistakes, but this is like the normal speed I see from most players. Brian, please, please, take some adderal.

That shuffling of your hand cards should be forbidden - its simply annoying and not very sportslike

Suffling cards in your hand is normal, it may be intentionally confusing your opponent, or it can just be nervousness. I suffle my hand because im used to do it, in bigger tourneys as well as in FNM's

I like magic, but I hate watching ppl fiddle around with the cards in their hand. Don't know why, it just does.

Why does Brian keep shuffling his hand like that constantly?

Agreed, its fucking annoying. They need to calm it down a bit

You must be a lot of fun to play with.

12:56 his hands finally get tired.. 13:31 "ok maybe i can just flick these instead..."

That card flicking is making this video hard to watch

Players shuffle their cards so their opponent cannot guess their hand. If you keep drawing and playing the cards on the left of your hand (as many players tend to put cards they can't immediately use on the right) then your opponent knows your hand sucks. If you shuffle your hand, they are kept guessing.

Goddamn, these guys are the best to watch

Brian constantly shuffles his handin order to throw the opponent off

Cifka vs Watanabe is the reason to put Psychic Spiral in sideboard .

Game one: Should cryptic command have been used to bounce Aether vials??

Is there a rule where you have to keep moving your cards in your hand.

Of course it goes completely unnoticed...that dude must just think puns 24/7

In min 6:45, when Ben Stark paths the aven mindcestor he searches in his entire library, but the Arbiter is already in play, he shouldn't have paid 2 mana? For this same reason Brian was not able to search in his library the basicland of the path to exile

I would never be able to focus with Brian flicking his cards constantly like that. It's already hard watching the video

To psyche eachother out. Its just another little thing. It used to bother me but after a while you tend to just ignore it.

Is there a point to shuffling your hand 60 times a turn?

Why does he constatly keep flicking his cards ??? is it part of the game ?

Whos here after REMY MTG video on card flicking

A lot of Magic is guessing what your opponent has to stop what you are doing. It's just as much about controlling the battlefield as it is about what the other players have in their hands.

Is Ben Stark related to the Game of Thrones characters?

In game 3 stark electrolyzed a Noble Hierarch. Why didnt he hit Kibler with the other point of damage? Its not alot but it still counts for something

smiter isnt on kibler's list?

Wasn't there a rule against having foil cards in your deck? As you can somewhat get an indication of what the card will be if it's curved?

only in the Kibler amendment of "pace of play" ;)

I wish they each only had one card in hand so they stop damn shuffling their hand.

Right there with you. I can't pretend that they aren't effective, but they're not really fun to watch.

kibler why u no use gaddock teeg?

THERE is uncle Ben!