Hello! Thanks for taking the time to view my tutorial. Link to sleeves and playmat are in the description. These videos pay for my addiction to Magic cards, so if you like this, please consider liking, commenting, and subscribing to increase engagement and help me build wayyyyyy too many commander decks!

gosh six months ago i didn’t know what mtg is now i’m spending my wednesday night learning how to shuffle cards lol

This is literally the video that made card games a comfortably viable form of entertainment for me. I cannot thank you enough.

My friend and I are just getting a third friend into magic, and shufffling sleeved 100 card decks was a significant barrier for him. I've tried showing him basically this, but a thorough, well explained first person perspective is a lot better than a 60 second crash course before a game, so thanks for a great resource to send him!

Thanks for the tutorial! I just sleeved up my first Precon and felt overwhelmed by how big of a pile it was. I’ll need to do some serious practice before I’m confident.

Thank you so much for this! Shuffling is the hardest part of the game for me and everyone just seems so fast.

Hello! I would personally I like to say that over 6 years of play I’ve never been able to shuffle properly as of recently I’ve really only been doing the pile shuffling and because of this I’ve now been able to shuffle my 98 card double sleeved Pako and Halden deck. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I knew I wasn’t the only one who was struggling lol. Thank you for this video.

I feel physical pain whenever I see a riffle shuffle.

This is nicely produced, thoughtful, talks about a bunch of interesting and relevant side details. Really good. Thanks.

I sleeved my first commander deck and thought there was no chance but this video helped a lot. TY

Key thing to know, cheap sleeves are a bit harder to mash shuffle then say dragonshield sleeves. Even some ultrapro sleeves corners will/can get bent pretty easily with mash shuffling, doing say 100 cards for a commander deck.

One of the few videos to show mash shuffling and the ability to deliberately or accidentally not shuffle the top or bottom. Great video!

The only good shuffling video I have found so far that's not a parody. Thanks for the good content. I have always mash shuffled buy felt like I don't get a good enough mix, I might just need to do more

Great vid, thank you. The mash shuffling sensation is so satisfying, feels like the cards are designed to be shuffled this way.

I had no idea how to shuffle cards before I watched this video. I always thought shuffling would be too hard to learn, so I never bothered and resorted to pile shuffling. Then, I did as you said and shuffled a small number of cards while gradually adding more to the deck. I also practiced shuffling without looking while watching KZfaq. Now I feel pretty confident in my card shuffling ability. Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial!

Fantastic guide! I tried a couple other ones but they never pointed out how the edge of the sleeves will assist in sliding into each other, which really helped with my practice. Definitely will be sharing this to other folks who want to learn how to shuffle

I've seen people shuffling like this and never really knew how to approach it. Great tutorial! definitely using this for now on! Much appreciated.

Thanks for this ^^ been playing commander and wanted to understand how to get better at shuffling. Looking forward to giving this a try

I have been in the MTG scene since the last quarter of 2017 and I decided that it was time to learn how to shuffle my EDH deck that was something other than the most basic of shuffles as it always felt clunky. After stumbling across this very informative video, I now hope to add more of that 'Magic' to any and all future games with the added randomization of my decks. Thank you for the help!

Oh my god this guys talking about practicing shuffling this is insane insanely awesome well this guy rocked

Coming back from taking a break since 2014-2015 and I forgot how unwieldy 98-99 sleeved cards can be to shuffle. Commander/EDH wasn't my favorite back then and didn't get too many hours in - this time around though I plan on giving it another go. This definitely helped me out and makes my standard and pioneer decks feel like a breeze to shuffle. A hand workout for sure, thanks!

Thank you so much, long time collector turned player I was pretty afraid shuffling very expensive cards.

dude thank you so much, i suck at shuffling my decks and with a few tries of your method and your explanations now i got loads better!

Thanks a lot. I’ve been into LCGs very recently and most of the quick board games I had are card games revolving around decks that needs to be randomized. Thanks for tips!

This was a great tutorial, thanks! I'm used to riffle shuffling and find it very satisfying to do, but I feel like i can see the soul leaving the body of people as they watch me bend my deck 😅 luckily this is just as satisfying and way easier to manage a sleeved deck

In my experience the most key point about this shuffling method to doing it easily and well is what you said about 4:30ish which is starting from the bottom. Before I learned this method well I was doing it from the top on occasion and splitting the sleeves down the sides and having to replace sleeves relatively often. If you start from the bottom you pretty much will never split sleeves. Also using a more high quality sleeve like dragon shields is helpful as opposed to ultra pros or something else, which is still okay but that is general across the board almost.

This was great. Thanks for going through the trouble to make this video. Great job!!

Thanks for the video! Just sleeved a precon and can’t wait to get started! Also that’s an awesome playmat

Wow, it feels so good to shuffle this way! Thanks :D

I love this shuffling method, I always had issues with the top and bottom not being shuffled, and I hadn't even considered just moving the mash so that the top and bottom interact!!! Great video and precaution to us (the viewers) on ways of cheating/not properly randomizing. +1! As a new player, this is content should be a staple in every magic player's MTG playlist ;)

Thank you so much for this video! I'm still not an expert but it has really helped me get the fundamentals and I'm sure I'll have it down soon.

This is how I’ve always shuffled my decks! I hate doing it without sleeves but I’ve found it to be statistically better than any other method

Great video. I just got back into MTG about a month ago from being away from it about 11 years, and have me a warewolf commander deck. Trying to learn how to shuffle, since I play Yu-Gi-Oh, and the shuffling in that game is different than MTG. Again amazing video, and now I know what to go sit around and do all day.

Good vid man , i was looking for a good way to Shuffle since i'm kinda new to commander (and Magic) . I guess i need to practice now !

This was a great video, Real informative, satisfying to watch you just shuffle and a good informative into the etiquette of shuffling. Thanks a tonne! : D

Hell yes! This is a much easier, and more efficient, way of shuffling. I'm rather new to MTG so I'm still running with precons modified with Booster Pack pulls. Just for fun I sorted up lands and everything else. I took my pile of lands and mash shuffled them into the middle of the remaining cards then I alternated in taking the top 1/3 of the deck and mash shuffling it into the middle and then the bottom 1/3. I repeated this alternating pattern five times and then made three 7-card piles by drawing from the top of the deck to simulate opening hands. I'm seeing MUCH better starting hands from far less time shuffling than before. And since I'm so new to the game, I don't have a very good understanding of what constitues as a good card in what kind of deck, so I'm just trying a whole bunch of different cards that I think will be good and see what sticks. To anyone bothering to read this far-- No, I don't like the idea of net-decking. I'm not a sweaty tryhard. Just regular sweaty, thank you very much.

ty! Simple and helpful tutorial with tons of extra information.

a 13 minute video about shuffling without repeating yourself. nice

I Played cards 15 Years Ago i started this Year again with One Piece Tournaments that video helps me alot :)

I just got into Magic a month or so ago. I don't have any sleeves like those yet. Once I do, I'll be sure to begin practicing my shuffle. I got some weird looks with my shuffling method at last week's pre-release.

I've been using this shuffle since you taught me in high school ❤ hope to play mtg again one day!

The sleeves you use matter as well, for those who may not know. I find matte sleeves to be really easy and just all sort of glide together. Non-matte, however, tend to kind of just stick together and create denser packs of cards, which make it harder for them to slide together. Just my 2 cents. Great tutorial!

Great video. I've been teaching my 10 year old nephew how to mash shuffle with penny sleaves when we play limited magic or pokemon. He used to turn a bunch of cards the wrong direction. Thankfully he learns fast. Maybe in 5 years he can touch my expensive decks. Maybe.

This video is really sweet, thank you for making this tutorial!

i consider myself a seasoned commander player and I still watch this video lol. i learned to mass shuffle horizontally instead of vertically like you do, maybe i should learn to do it vertically as well

What a beautiful playmat ❤

Thanks for the video, gonna practice this tonight

Very lovely video. I have very stiff, very small fingers so shuffling is kind of a pain in the butt for me and I usually have someone else shuffle for me, but that makes me also avoid effects that require you to shuffle your deck. So, obviously I want to learn but never found any tutorial talking about mash shuffling (until today at least). So, thank you very much!

I definitely didn't need this video, but damn thank for this lol. I hope your channel succeeds

Thank you so much man. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this video

I really like the way you explained everything. Great video and I learned a lot. Liked and Subbed.

bro you are a legend this is magic..... thanks big love people dont share anymore

Im not going to lie i learned how to shuffle like this is about 20 minutes i have experience with shuffling but I’ve never touched more than 60 cards I’m used to table top games such and poker and black jack and even light illusion shuffles. but this video really helped thank you you

i came just to say I love the deckmat. and the contrast between the sleeves and the mat

Came here because I instinctively could do it but knew I couldn’t be as dead on as I thought. As a new magic player and complete noobie to anything card related, this video really helped me out and teach me how to properly do it 🙏

Love the video. I actually took the inner sleeves out of my commander decks because 100 double sleeved cards were just too thick for me, barely manageable but not impossible if I really cared about them. I would say that the 2-3 cards that don't get 1-1 alternated when mash shuffling makes it MORE random, you can't reliably track which 2-3 were next to each other and even better if it happens to different groups of cards. The difference between true random something that feels better when mixing cards together.

Really handy video! I’m awful at shuffling and this helps alot

A note to ppl, If you double sleave your cards, the middle of the card is much thicker than the edges, wich helps you shuffle, as the cards already now gives you a groove/zipper to put edge to edge on the cards, this helps massivly with shuffeling. Aka, increasing the effect shown in the vid

I can hear the cards crying

Thanks for tips man keep up the great work

I only play with friends, but I always pile shuffle to help with clumped up lands and then shuffle those piles together. Then I’ll keep mass shuffling until everyone else is ready. Probably over kill but it works for me!

When I got into mtg, my cousins convinced me to double sleeve..... my hands are not the right size for that in commander lol went back to single sleeve and that's still a small problem but this helps a lot thank you!

Just got my first deck today (Commander) and had to ask for people to shuffle for me. After I got home I figured out a way I can actually do it, apparently not harming the cards, but then I got scared because it's all single sleeves; but the way I figured to do it was to put it all on one of my hands like a hand fan, then with the order hand take the leftmost third and mash it unto the middle, then do the same with the left third, and repeat; I was scared as it seemed too easy.

Thank you for this. In some strategy board games, there are decks of 200+ cards to shuffle, all sleeved. An impossible task without pile shuffling. Unless you have inhumanly giant hands.

This is how I’ve shuffled for years, but I still tend to shuffle half of my commander deck at a time with this method. Just the most manageable to me. Then I can combine and cut and reshuffle as much as I want.

I don't think there is anything wrong with pile shuffling IF you do a different random shuffle afterwards, for example a pile shuffle followed by mash shuffling. I've found it breaks up cards a little more than just a mash shuffle alone so I'm not drawing all my copies of one card in a row and separates like card types in a deck a little more if the deck in a specific list order. Just pile shuffling alone is a big no-no though. Edit: I've had opponents get really uptight about me pile shuffling at the start (without waiting to see if I'll even do a different shuffle after) and continue to berate me after clearly seeing I'm not just pile shuffling.

i play a lot of pokemon tcg and this is so far the only acceptable way of shuffling at any table that i have played at for the last 10 years

Thanks for the info. Beginning commander player with about 10 games under my belt and I just haven't been able to get the hang of shuffling 99 sleeved cards. I really appreciate the time you took to make this. It was very thorough. Next question, why double sleeve. Thank again.

I would just like to say that if you get the Ultimate Guard Katanas this mash shuffling is far far easier to execute. And it is so satisfying. My ton of Dragon Shields are also fine to do but something about the texture of the Katanas just makes it so easy and natural.

Literally tried to top shuffle with sleeves and messed up brand new sleeves lol. Only after did my friend laugh at me and then show me how to mash shuffle.

As a bad shuffler that has trouble with mash shuffling, I recognize that pile shuffling is easy to rig so if I ever resort to it, I do my best to shake up the order. Normal order, reverse order, clockwise, diagonal, reverse, counterclockwise, normal, inverse diagonal, just go full Simon on it. I may be a math guy but I can't remember that for 98-99 cards, especially after about 2-3 mashes because they clump up randomly and sometimes I very obviously miss a chunk. My biggest issue is getting the cards to loosen up for the initial mash where the corners cut in between the other pile, and since my friend owns all of the cards he gets a heart attack when I'm actually very good at holding things delicately. The method I'm ""best"" at what I guess could be called a drop-cut, where I take a chunk of several cards, usually starting with the top of the deck, move them to above the bottom of the deck, and then steadily let them fall out of my hand as I make sure the pile I'm holding always goes to the bottom. Sometimes it'll be the middle cards first, the bottom cards, a riffle of cards, but I just keep doing that for different chunks of the deck, eventually it recycles a few times as I do my best to also mix some chunks together. Sleeves aren't getting pressed against each other, cards aren't being curved or bent to fit between each other, there's no frustration with piles refusing to separate, it's all the inevitability of physics.

Especially with double sleeved decks, you can also easily grab two piles by the tops (near the opening). the bottoms fan apart a bit and you can easily push the bottom corners together

I Pile shuffle 6 stacks, but go into random order picking random piles and sometimes place 2 cards at once. Then after that I do a mass shuffle. Seems to work really well. Pile breaks up large sections of land/creature from previous games then mass shuffle just randomizes.

When I pile shuffle the only cards that can be reversed are the first ones in the stack. Nothing else after that is in order

my guy is smooth with the shuffle

I do mash shuffling and what I call "drop" shuffling to randomize the edges more, then it gets cut. But before every event I will do a pile shuffle of 10 cards first, both to count the number of cards to make sure I'm at 99 and then I stack them together randomly before mash shuffling afterwards.

great video my friend!

Hey, what sleeves do you use? Cant find any that fit for double sleeve.

i wasnt going to watch this until i read some of the comments and they are all so positive so now im committed

Thanks man, I'll totally practice this. Quick question though, what's that thing you do at 6:38 ? I defo wanna practice that as well.

After watching the 15 year old saitou shuffling video that got recommended to me, I suddenly get shuffling tutorials in my feed

Very well done imho. Verbalized excelently 🎉

Now about the pile shuffling your allowed one pile shuffle per game its in the rules, The point isn't to randomize your cards but to count your deck out to make sure you have the required amount to play i have seen many games judging at my local shop that not doing atleast one pile shuffle per game is a massive mistake most do because i have seen many players not have a legal 100 card/60 card deck to play now if thats all they do then yes stop them and tell them to shuffle a bit different then just a pile shuffle but every player is allowed one pile shuffle per game no matter the format to count their deck out.

Best shuffling video on youtube

Using this video to see if I am shuffling right for my Digimon cards. I have found out I am shuffling them right without damaging my sleeves

Ive been using Dragon Shield Matte Jet sleeves and they are very tough to shuffle. They just seem to have a lot of friction when trying to get them to slip together even when using like 20-30 cards.

I've seen people do something that looks like mash shuffling - BUT it looks like they just fall/cascade into place - how do they do that?

For some reason, when I exclusively mash shuffle, my lands start to clump. So I always pile shuffle then mash a little after.

When I first started playing, I found that shuffling like you do in 9:58 where the top cards of the bottom and the bottom cards of the top overlap and only do that, the entire deck continually rotates in a random order and you dont need to change the size or order in which you shuffle the deck, just overlap the top and bottom of each top half and do that a handful of times, pun intended, and you're good

Good and detailed demonstration! Sleeving cards is crucial, as in my opinion, not sleeving them is the most unwise (or stupid, if to be honest) thing a board game player can possibly do. No offense to anyone cuz I know certain cultures hate sleeves, but that's really how I personally feel. After all, I never get why so many people care so much about not bending or damaging cards yet just don't sleeve their games. If one doesn't care, then that's alright, but this contradictory at its finest is mostly the case. (not happening in my country since sleeves was a thing initially invented here)

Fantastic teaching.

Just an extra... after the first shuffle, some edges might not perfectly align as a single block (like when you were talking bout cheating), don't push them to align, use that as another sort of edge to easen up the shuffle

yo that mat is dope af wodie

Did you know: - for a 52 card deck, 7 riffle shuffles will make sure the a deck is properly shuffled, and - the more you shuffle the worse you are at shuffling (as you become more consistent with time). I follow the general thought that 10-ish mash shuffles is good enough for a 100 card deck. My technique for doing it with sleeved cards is quite different from yours but I think you advise is still extremely good. People are also waaay too worried of riffle shuffling, Magic cards can take a lot of bending and abuse, the main reason not to do it is that since we nowadays mostly use sleeves it is not that easy to do. Really appreciate how you pointed out the cheating aspect also, I always make sure to do a few cuts between shuffling and to ALWAYS at least cut my opponents deck. Even when I trust then.

Hey! I know you posted this video over 2 years ago but Thank You! I wanted to ask and see what sleeves you would recommend? I've been practicing with some sleeves i got from a pokemon collectors box but they aren't very good and cause too much friction to shuffle a whole commander deck comfortably.

Thanks for the tutorial, I've been having a hard time trying to shuffle my commander decks. I'm ok up to around 60 cards (dragonshield single sleeved) with this method but once I get past that amount I have a lot of trouble with the stacks getting too tight in my hands and I can't get them to weave properly anymore, starting to think maybe my hands aren't big enough.

VERY useful video. Thanks a bunch! How do you usually organize your commander before a match? I used to play the "regular mod" so I just organized like - 1 land - 2 cards - But I cant do that with commander. ANy tips?

Everyone has their own sacred method. Mine is my own esoteric mix that I have grown over the years ive been playing, which of the formulae I will now impart to you, reader. First, split the lands from the spells Shuffle both piles Split the land pile in half Split the spell pile in half Shuffle one spell half with the land half using the sleeves and light pressure only Split the two halves Shuffle two quarters together Shuffle two halves together You will rarely get mana bound or mana screwed. Cards should be stored lands/spells/tokens/commander using a card spin down or provided divider.

Thank you, your awesome!