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Is mana weaving okay before the first round begins?

When i realized how easy it is to cheat via pile shuffling (and even regular overhand shuffling) I made sure to stop pile shuffling and to always cut the opponent's deck and encourage then to cut mine (new players in limited often dont do this). I just realized how easy it would be for me to cheat against someone with little experience and I want to be an honest player without a shadow of a doubt

How am I supposed to shuffle?

My heart sank when I saw I did the first shuffle technique. I didn’t even know it was bad. I do it differently tho. I put extra lands with certain cards so they can get out quickly then I shuffle for a few minutes, I’ll check the deck for Any bad stuff fix that then shuffle. Draw a hand, if it’s good I’ll shuffle the deck back cause it’s all shuffled if not repeat. It takes me ages to shuffle tho so cause I want the game to be random otherwise I can’t tell if the deck is good. Also cheating can actually make you lose in the funniest ways possible. .Mill could take the rigged cards of the top of your library If your deck is 30spells 30 lands and you make it land spell land spell ect o don’t think your deck is as good as you think it is, you need more spells than lands usually, so yeah that would destroy your cheating I think. I only play kitchen table with friends And I taught them to to that do so we all have that advantage ig. Whoops

People who think that burn decks are annoying are think and woke and need to get off the LGBT parade.

I would just shuffle their deck 7 times when they hand it to me to cut. Totally random then!

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This video is a bit old and i'm not sure if there were rule updates on this topic since then. According to the most recent rules i ready, you can mana weave all you want at tournaments BUUUUUTTTTT..... you can NOT do it at the table when the match starts and you can't pile shuffle either. Both are considered 'delay of game' types of tactics. Mana weave before a game officially starts or in between matches is fine, but when the game starts you are required to properly shuffle your deck and pass to the opponent to properly shuffle and cut. And by shuffle, i mean 'an approved randomization of cards'. In theory, if you mana weave, then a proper shuffle will not only negate the mana weave, it also makes it a completely useless activity. Besides, the heck you think the big tournament guys are doing in their hotel room before a match anyways? You'd be an idiot not to make a basic correction in your deck if you happen to find a giant pile of land stuck together.

Great Video, Thank you. Helped a lot.

How am I supposed to know what type of mana weaving pattern my opponent did without looking at the cards? If my opponent sorted his cards into 4 or 6 piles sorting then backwards through five piles isn't going to show anything. If you suspect an opponent was stacking his deck just hand it to the judge without messing with it at all. If it's land, spell, land, spell or any other obvious pattern they'll be able to tell just fine.

about the non consistent older cards back when revised came out i bought a box and 6 packs in the box all the cards were tented yellow we used to call them piss cards

Back in 93 when I was in college. We used to tear up the alpha cards. Because nobody wanted them. Because you couldn't play them in a tournament I wish I could go back in time and kick myself in the ass.

I tend to start shuffling by making six piles and then randomly adding a pile at a time while continuing to shuffle and I didn't realise how the start is a method of cheating

The Bend Test is not a real test! It's just cardboard. Eventually, and especially on older and played cards, the structural integrity wears out and real cards will bend. You can test this yourself by taking a real NM card and bend it back and forth multiple times and at some point, it will just fail. I think my last test was around 15 bends.

Nice to see someone using a little finesse instead of brute force.

Where are you finding the MTG templates for photoshop? Or are you making your own? Thanks.

How do you beat someone who does a double nickel and then pulls, at random, 5 to 7 cards out of the middle, and puts them on the top, or bottom, randomly.

I cant see it in the video so you cut 3 angels up and layer the wing for example 2 or three times?

Ngl, that's a prime example of the things that make Magic completely unattractive for new players...

I still don't get why he does the jeweler's on the white symbol, everyone know it is the green dot you check on the back to find the red L in it.

*me waiting for the part where he draws the isometric view*

Can I use a laser printer?

Good news! I ripped my black lotus and it is authentic!

Who cares? You're still gonna scratch the cards.

Just conducted the rip test on my NM Alpha Black Lotus. It was real 🥳

When I learned to play, I was told that you put 1 land and 2 spells and repeat to make your deck. Then you shuffle normally. So you can get mana-flooded or mana-screwed, but it's less likely. It took over 15 years before I learned that you're not supposed to sort your cards before shuffling.

Flames of Rage isn't actually impossible. This is because hellbent is not a keyword. It's a pseudo. You can tell because it is italicized. What this means is that writing "Hellbent" on a card doesn't actually mean anything. It's just a sort of helpful tag to help you parse the card faster. It doesn't cause the effect to be true. Real Hellbent cards would say *Hellbent* - As long as you have no cards in hand (...). This "As long as you have no cards in hand" is not reminder text. It's not italicized. This is actual rules text. This is the text that's causing this to be true. So since you didn't write this on the card, this effect isn't present. The card says Hellbent, promising that the effect will have something to do with no cards in hand, but then it breaks that promise by not actually having any text about that. So the card is just lying about having a Hellbent effect. Also, what is hellbent even supposed to be doing here? Even if it did work the way you seem to think it does, what is it telling us when it appears before the entire text of an instant. The way the card is currently worded (with hellbent not doing anything), what would happen is that you would cast it, and then you would discard a card, and whether or not you were able to do that, it would also deal 10 damage. So is the idea that Hellbent means you can only cast the card when you have no cards in hand? This is allowed and would not prevent you from casting the card, since by the time you attempt to cast the card, it's already on the stack. So if this was the last card in your hand, you could cast it. Then the discard isn't a cost so although you could never actually discard a card, the other effect would still happen.

it's just called a riffle shuffle, and technically the corner riffle is the correct way to do it. it's how card rooms shuffle for poker decks as it exposes the least amount of info and doesn't damage the cards.

Like with sleeved shuffling, you still want to combine multiple shuffling styles. In the case of unsleeved decks, your options are more limited, but you can easily combine the following: * pile shuffle * riffle * bridge, performed gingerly * faro By combining multiple shuffling methods together, you maximize randomness while minimizing dependence on any one particular method. For example, you can bridge 1-3 times instead of 7, following up with several rounds of riffling, so that the cards remain... as pristine as they can under the circumstances.

Interesting video, and something we will keep in mind! Subbed. :)

It’s perfectly acceptable to Mana Weave as long as you throughly shuffle afterwards.

I needed this after buying the game night box. I'm not sleeving those cards, and pulling seven lands on turn one makes for a dull game.

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Ahh this video brings back a memory. Somone did the 2 anti cheat to me several years ago at a tunement the was like 160+ pepol at, asket then Judges if it looket random and the juges just tunet my deck arund looket it over, said yes gave me to me and ordert me to resuffle it and gave me a game win becus my oppenet took like 20 min doing the.

Ok late to the party here, how to you line up your cards and size them correctly to print. I made a bunch of cards in photoshop and exported them to PNG but Im a novice and dont know how to format them to be able to press print and have 6-8 cards on 1 page

How would this even work in a realistic way? Am I supposed to go to every tournament match and before I shuffle my opponents deck or look at it, I must guess the correct mana weaving counter shuffle to catch a cheater? I really doubt anyone in their right mind would go do this irl.

sweet vid i was thinking on creating some 3 d commanders and was unsure of how to go about it

I used to play the old school Windows 98 MTG Duels of the Planeswalkers and built an extremely messed up Stasis,Kismet,Time Elemental, Braingeyser deck. I only ever played it against the cpu. I would never put a human through that torture.

Thanks, amigo. you pulled off a great "Drafting for rookies" video. I've got a group of 8 about to do a draft tourney, 1 may have drafted before. your video was a perfect way to school them all up enough to wash away any anxiety or confusion they may have had. clear explanations, to the point, hit a ton of the vital must-knows. exceptionally well done.

Why is there a judge at a pre release ?

When counterfeit money become impossible to distinguish from real money it's call superdollar, superbill or supernote. Have there been made any mtg supernote like someone got there hand on an original printing press and plates? Got any stories?

Im about to do my first draft tomorrow im really excited thank you for your help

mate my cards passed all your tests ! but did NOT pass the light test !?!?!?

this is diggusting. can you tell me were they find it? to never go to that page and confuse me.

manaweaving aint cheating! here is why you giblet brains..... when has anyone manaweaved then not shuffle then not hand deck over to opponent for another shuffle or cut? when in the hell did anyone in a game manaweave in someones face? smh

Can someone explain to me what a sleeve means in the context of playing cards

As for the epoxy resin bubbles, the reason the heat from the lighter actually assists with removing the bubbles is the fact that the flame is sucking some of the surrounding oxygen up creating a very minor vacuum like effect allowing the bubbles to more easily rise to the surface due to the difference in air pressure around the resin. If your willing to put in the extra work and you are struggling to remove these bubbles, its fairly easy to create a homemade vacuum chamber to handle this process. Simply take a clear bowl or Tupperware container that you can see through and placing it over your resin then sealing the container to the surface that it is set upon with tape to create a "mostly" air tight seal. Then poke a small hole in the top of the container and insert a bicycle or ball pump into the hole and seal it as well the best that you can. The seals don't have to be 100% perfect but they need to be at least decent enough to keep air from rushing in at the same rate or faster than you can pump it out with the air pump. After this set up, just pump the air pump until the bubbles rise to the surface and pop. This works very very well for stubborn bubbles and can also help provide a very smooth and level surface on the epoxy that was poured. Anyways sorry for the long comment just figured it was relevant lol.

You always leave the land in, no matter what, the only card you take out is the token or the card with no magic backing.

Can you make a video about how to stop all the complete f'ing idiots online who constantly accuse everyone of cheating because they put good cards in their deck and subsequently draw those cards? The mouth-breathing morons who, when you draw something you need, will say something like "nice XMage draws!" or "goddamn this broken shuffler!" or "guess it's better to be lucky than good!" (implying that it's just so unlikely that you would draw good cards from the deck you constructed with your vastly inferior brain) or who - I shit you not - actually imply that you somehow hacked the game to get perfect draws? The idiots who you could not explain how probabilities work if you sat them down for a whole semester in a Statistics 101 class. Because personally I find those types much more annoying than cheaters.

Just a brief note... if you do the first thing... you are NOT 100% proving your opponent cheated. This is a common failure of the human brain to understand the nature of randomness. It could potentially end up land spell land spell randomly... if it really is truly perfect that's just uncommon but not 100% impossible. Also most people don't run 50% lands in a deck so you're not going to end up with that perfect distribution most of the time anyway...