Lerned a new one this weekend...

[John Danker]

I learned a new one this weekend at the Chicago SJC, I must have missed or overlooked the judge's list post a month or so ago....just thought I'd point it out to those who did the same...

http://lists.upperdeck.com/read/messages?id=9024#9024

It's the first I'd heard of this practice of cutting your own deck after your opponent has shuffled it and handed it back to you. I don't have any feelings on it one way or the other...it's just the first I'd heard of it.

 

[DaGuyWitBluGlasses]

I'm certainly not agaist this practice....It was just the first time I've seen it. On the converse side. If I have a sleeve that is slightly wider than the others, what's to stop me from using it to cut my deck for a specific card to be on top of my own deck?

To cut and put a card on the top of the deck you would want a smaller sleeve. (So you will pick up all the cards above it, leaving it on the top of the deck of the second half, which will be placed on top. The bigger sleeve would have been picked up in the first half an would have become the bottom of the deck)

And for the same reason, since the smaller sleeves evade the fingers, when you hand your deck to your opponent with a couple short sleeves next to each other the odds are that they will stay together: your opponent will not be able to grab jsut one of those cards to split it from the others. And if your opponent were the one to cut the cards, s/he would likely put the smaller sleeve on top as well.

It wouldn't matter who cut the cards.

It would easily be detected if the cards were ones that you would always use in the first turn (e.g one couldn't get away with pulling exodia consistenly.) However, powerful cards that are likely to wait a couple of turn before being used would likely be suspised.

Make sure to get a feel of the sleeves during deck check