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How do you shuffle big decks? (feddit.de)
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Some games come with gigantic stacks of cards that I find hard to mix with card-friendly methods. Games like Ark Nova, Clank, Hogwarts Battle have unmanageable decks but I hate bending the cards.

Whats the best way?

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[–] dpunked@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of for sure, I do break it into smaller sections. But must methods leave the deck not as random as I would like. Even if I split and shuffle

[–] yads@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you think the deck is not random enough?

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When you draw a five cards and three were in the same sequence present in the last game. Or the same card that's grouped together because of game mechanics.

[–] yads@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that case I'd say pile shuffle before regular shuffle is the way to go

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, that's what I usually do. With breaking up the regular shuffle into smaller stacks when the deck is huge.

[–] yads@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sleeved cards is also good, because you can usually skip the pile shuffle and just do the mash shuffle

[–] dpunked@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Could not have summarized this any better