When people see the word ‘meta’ they too often think it just applies to the card choices you can make for your deck. This series will instead look at ways by which you can improve the way you think about the game in an attempt to get an advantage over your opponent.
Foreword
This article analyses shuffling techniques and estimates deck order after shuffling. If, after shuffling a deck, you know the location (accurately or otherwise) of any card or card type in a deck (yours or your opponent’s), it is your duty as a player to reshuffle or ask your opponent to reshuffle the deck as that knowledge is cheating. All estimates here are for example purposes only.
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