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.

I feel physical pain whenever I see a riffle shuffle.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What a beautiful playmat ❤

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

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

Thanks for the video, gonna practice this tonight

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.

Thanks for tips man keep up the great work

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ;)

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?

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

Very well done imho. Verbalized excelently 🎉

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.

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

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!

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 🙏

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.

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.

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!

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.

Fantastic teaching.

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

Coolest playmat I have ever seen

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.

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

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.

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

Thank you, your awesome!

a 13 minute video about shuffling without repeating yourself. nice

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.

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?

great video my friend!

Great video! What sleeves are you using? I noticed different sleeves have different shuffle quality and some get damages easily than others even with the careful shuffling

my guy is smooth with the shuffle

Thanks for the video

Pro tip you HAVE to make sure you do bottom corner to bottom corner cuz if you do a top corner you WILL destroy 3-4 sleeves in one try other then that it's a great way to shuffle must faster and more efficiently to get into you games a bit faster instead of waiting 5 mins trying to shuffle and still be poorly shuffled

Best shuffling video on youtube

Double sleeved!! Aiight Bro 🙏🏽

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

I need that playmat!! :D

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

nice playmat where did you get it?

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.

i always take half of the deck and reverse some of the chunks and put them on top and mash a few times and repeat so that the card order is even more randomized. i find that when i only mash shuffle a lot of the cards on top and bottom stay relatively the same. also somehow more of my lands end up in the middle of my deck so i start out with one or two landers and have to mulligan a million times

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.

just got to mtg thx for this video

Any tips if my hands aren't big enough to hold the whole deck? Lol

I do have a question :) You didn't mention what kind of sleeves you are actually using! There are lots of sleeves that after few matches have scratches, board cut and they can't be even shuffled in a proper way because of their materials. As an example, I bought the Dragonshield Standard and they really s**k, scratches everywhere after 2 months, they can only be shuffled one way, my deck seems to be falling on one side, I hate them. On the other hand, 3 years ago I bought some ultra pro gloss for my legacy deck and they are still perfect, seems to be long lasting and I can shuffle them without any issues.... no adv here, just saying. Seems also that Dragon shield matte and dual matte are way better than the standard one... Do you have any reco on this?

i have a question, you double esleeve your cards, or you only use the dragon sleeves?

Your playmat is rad as hell

yo that mat is dope af wodie

Great video. I still wonder how to shuffle a 100 cards decks. I am now closer the answer thank to you ! 🎉❤

Pile shuffling is only reversible if you use a consistent or traceable system while shuffling. I broke my arm recently and was unable to do mash shuffling, so I was forced to use pile shuffling... but I didn't just do neat little stacks over and over in the same sequence. I'd start by making 4 or 5 piles, but I'd put cards on the stacks haphazardly; after dealing 5 cards out to begin 5 piles, my 6th card might go onto pile #2, the 7th card might go into pile #5, and so on. I might draw a loose figure eight in how I dealt cards into the piles i made (with random exceptions, dealing a card out of sequence just CUZ), then randomly reverse the figure 8 after doing it a few times; maybe go back-and-forth, or top-to-bottom, or in lines like a typewriter, changing the patterns as I went based on no logic outside of randomizing the deck as well and efficiently as possible (while still keeping the cards in the correct orientation). I might arbitrarily start a new pile, then just as arbitrarily grab the top of a pile and put it onto another pile, then put the bottom on top of a different pile; random cuts, random re-stacks, and so on. Usually I'd end up with like 10 different piles of various sizes filling up the entire space, which would then get arbitrarily cobbled together (putting pile #3 on top of #7 on top of #1 on top of #2, or maybe #10, whatever.) Now, if I was one of those savants who could just intuitively track these kinds of things then I guess it wouldn't work. But I'm not, and it seemed to work for what it was :) I don't intend to criticize the video in any way; the vid was a very good introduction to a skill that isn't often discussed and might be intimidating to some. I just wanted to share another possibility that some might not have thought about ;)

lovely toski right there :)

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'm a casino dealer, oh man were people irate when I started shuffling. Needed this video to make me less of a frenemy.

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

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

thx bro now i am a pro

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.

Turns out I've been mash shuffling for years without knowing it, but the concerns are valid. I've damaged my sleeves and the corners are tipped, even ripped a Dragonshield or two from bad habits I've taken to flipping the entire deck upside down and having the 'bottom corner' be at the top so the motion is easier to do without thinking

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.

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