Tomoharu Saito, a Magic the Gathering Pro Player has a unique shuffling style. Taken at Grand Prix San Francisco 2007 in his game against Olivier Ruel.
@@Tinskap You would for sure be mad if he did this, won game one, stalled out on board actions, you are about to win game 2 and time is called on the match.
Imagine complaining about fetch lands when in yu-gi-oh there are tutors that searches tutors with legs that search other tutors that fetches deck summons with 3 draws between so you have to shuffle
@@groundpoundtime5488 holding top packet and bottom packet, and twirling the middle packet, is not shuffling. Neither is counting the cards out on the table and stacking them back in order.
@@myrusEW Cool story, but none of what you said happened here. He didn't only switch around seperated stacks, the cards were also mixed into each other in the same sequence. And in the second part you can't count out like he does and simple but the stacks onto each other to get the same order, that's not possible.
I didn’t think much about the shuffle until he started pile shuffling, even though it was probably the most common thing he did that entire time I’ve never seen someone do that and it looks amazing
@@theguyyouheardabout6658 That's why you do the bootleg version where you ripple in your hand by letting them slide between each other. Still ripple shuffling to a degree and wont bend your $500 deck
@C David exactly, yet he chooses to do this mundane almost meaningless task that is being done all around him and else where with such grace and thoughtfulness, instead of just shuffling the cards together. I think this video should be shown to future generations on for the determination of the human spirit.
@C David there can be special stuff also in mondane stuff, you know? His shuffling is a special shuffling for a tcg player, like you can say a dancer has a special way of dancing etc. You don't have to send people to Mars to do something special Also other question: do you do it, or know people irl that do it? Shuffling this way being rare makes it special
I would say the first shuffle part wasn't really a shuffle. The top half of the deck never moves. And the bottom half is just being cut over and over again (if he really good perfectly cut so the cards don't really change place) lol I doubt he is cheating but it is a good way to try and get away with cheating. The way he shuffles he can get away with the top half of the deck being in the specific order he wants.
@@xavierdeguzman7894 true but then when he piled the stacks he randomized those top cards as well, unless he is hoping to hit every 6th and 10th card without searching. But yeah if he didn't pile, you would have a valid point.
Tomoharu Saito was my inspiration in the early 2010s and even assisted me in piloting a modern take on his GB rock deck. This man was a brilliant player.
your mean hes like China, you said you'd pay off the refs dont let them catch me cheating. oh they didnt see me stack the same 5 cards on the top of my power shuffle, hiyaaaa
As he raised his eyes to heaven, young Tohomaru uttered a small prayer to the Pend God, Steven Trifunoski, and asked that he open Pend Call Darkwurm - Amen
It's one thing if you just have a bad habit of not randomizing your deck well after picking up your lands at the end of a game, but do you know the word for making sure you have a land every few cards? Cheating.
I had that problem, there’s a trick that helps prevent that. After each game, shuffle everything except for your library. After that, shuffle everything into your library.
Admire tomahatu saito his skills are amazing, with shuffle like that things be very random and better for players on both sides. His skill set is legendary!
I actually played in this event... its funny going back and watching things like this, reminds me of when you could actually play magic for a living and actually see the world doing it. This was a block constructed event, it was a lot of fun.
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This is how I shuffle. I vaguely remember this video from back then and never gave it much thought but I picked up his shuffling method. Didn't even remember this till this popped up and someone asked how'd I learn this way
My initial reaction to this is that I can't believe this is considered legal shuffling. This is exactly how a card mechanic would shuffle a deck to appear to be shuffling thoroughly while actually controlling cards. I also thought that piling cards at high level events was not allowed because it creates opportunities to stack your deck.
He did a video try to do this shuffle around 2020-2021 iirc Trying to get the speed of the shuffle, he's out of practice, hiccups here and there, and trying diffent types of sleeve. He's in the TCG business right now, owning Hareruya TCG store, having multiple stores across Japan and Asia
This guy inspired me to learn this shuffle when I was in high school. I learned it and the shuffling phase went by way faster. Gets a little tricky if you are using Edh but it's still faster than conventional. Although, I think there were some rule changes where you couldn't end a shuffle with pile shuffling, so what I started doing is I would overhand shuffle a couple times, then pile shuffle to count my cards and when I combine the piles, I mash shuffle them, then mash shuffle 2-3 more times. Works for me even if it isn't the 'recommended' 17-18 shuffles to get a deck perfectly random. FYI. Overhand shuffling is the type you see in the YUGIOH cartoon. You take a random amount of cards from the bottom and move them to the top. I'll usually slide a random amount from the bottom pile to the top at a time. Mash shuffling is the type you see in the beginning of his shuffle. You take approximately half the pile and sort of shove it into the other half usually with the corner. Only works with sleeved cards. And pile shuffling is what you see him finish with. Self explanatory, just separate them into piles. You are only allowed one of these to count your cards because normally, it takes a while and it doesn't randomize the cards. It pseudo randomizes them but you can easily reverse the pile shuffling and return the pile to it's original state. That's why you only get one and you can't end shuffling with it.
what he does is a vertical mass shuffle right? the pile shuffling looks really clean but I think I'm gonna keep to my 7stack pile shuffle, which goes pretty fast as well. What I usually do (I play mostly EDH) is pile shuffle everything first, then a couple mass shuffles
@@danb8950 Nooooooo, really. Yes... yes i know that he is banned. And behold i also know (like probably 99% of the playerbase) that he will get an Errata so that Firewall dragon FTK isnt possible anymore.
@@alexhazel this shuffle is very long and he has it timed out to the legal DCI limit every time he takes a shuffle action when he is advantaged. He is a notoriously slow player when up one game in a match. He has been banned for slow play/intentional clock manipulation before.
Imagine he does this every time he searches his deck
Fetch lands are a plague on this game.
He is no longer welcome to fnm for the 30 minutes it saves when he plays 2 fetch lands and a tutor.
I'm not mad that's satisfying to look at
@@Tinskap You would for sure be mad if he did this, won game one, stalled out on board actions, you are about to win game 2 and time is called on the match.
Imagine complaining about fetch lands when in yu-gi-oh there are tutors that searches tutors with legs that search other tutors that fetches deck summons with 3 draws between so you have to shuffle
This is Tomoharu Saito,（RUclipsr "Tomohappy" now）
I'm surprised for this 13years ago video 150,000 times watch in this 1week.
ビックリ！！こんなことあるんですね！！
Wow, it's the man himself
Do you have some Shuffle Tutorial or something like that? I always was suprised by the shuffling of Japanese Player
まさかの本物かいwww
ruclips.net/video/VDRZh84Nf7o/видео.html
The legend appears!
He shuffled it so hard that it returned to its original positioning
if you means false cut then yes, possibly
@@groundpoundtime5488 holding top packet and bottom packet, and twirling the middle packet, is not shuffling. Neither is counting the cards out on the table and stacking them back in order.
@@myrusEW Cool story, but none of what you said happened here. He didn't only switch around seperated stacks, the cards were also mixed into each other in the same sequence. And in the second part you can't count out like he does and simple but the stacks onto each other to get the same order, that's not possible.
@@groundpoundtime5488 the initial is possible but the latter part of the shiluffle is a proper shuffle.
i believe 26 or 28 perfect faro shuffles returns cards to there original position
After this shuffle, I will indeed believe in the heart of the cards
Nah go play master duel
@@epicgamer7697 and felt the 1turn of heart of the cards :D
@@epicgamer7697 duel links better, master duel has annoying hand traps and connection problems
I dont wanna ruin the 999 likes
@@p.k3088 talk about connection problems, I bet cross duel will be even worse...
this dude would make a killer magician with that technique
Dang it dude
oi. What are you doing here. Is that dude an idol now?
Wow look ma it's the guy
I keep seeing you everywhere😂
Dark magician
Imagine shuffling this well and still brick.
No please don't give me thag image
if he's playing blue eyes....
that is why i stopped playing competetively lol
who needs to imagine?
Is that deck still viable?
I didn’t think much about the shuffle until he started pile shuffling, even though it was probably the most common thing he did that entire time I’ve never seen someone do that and it looks amazing
It’s actually mathematically “proven” that 7x ripple shuffle is the truest form of RNG for the least amount of times shuffle.
@Korach given a deck of 52 cards, which is illegal in magic.
@Tucker Verbeeck look up “best and worst ways to shuffle a deck” by the numberphile
@@TheGrimmjow2riffle shuffle* and no one is gonna riffle shuffle their 500$ mtg deck
@@theguyyouheardabout6658 That's why you do the bootleg version where you ripple in your hand by letting them slide between each other. Still ripple shuffling to a degree and wont bend your $500 deck
15 years later and still a sight to behold
Indeed
Almost poetic
😂
@C David exactly, yet he chooses to do this mundane almost meaningless task that is being done all around him and else where with such grace and thoughtfulness, instead of just shuffling the cards together. I think this video should be shown to future generations on for the determination of the human spirit.
@C David I've played magic and yugioh for about half my life now. I've never seen anyone else be able to do this. It's really incredible.
@C David try you to shuffle that way
In years of playing yugioh, and mtg, saw no one shuffling this way
@C David there can be special stuff also in mondane stuff, you know? His shuffling is a special shuffling for a tcg player, like you can say a dancer has a special way of dancing etc.
You don't have to send people to Mars to do something special
Also other question: do you do it, or know people irl that do it? Shuffling this way being rare makes it special
Imagine getting this 13+ years after this was posted
Holy shit i just realized.
Yeah can't imagine that ever happening lol
13 years huh.... How old is RUclips again?
My oh my
Some say he is still shuffling to this day...
such a great spirit on how he shuffles. even looks away so u know hes not looking at cards.
めっちゃ早いのに丁寧にキレイにやってて気持ち〜
Sees opponent shuffle like that.
“You win.”
Places hand firmly on deck
That shuffle was so smooth, makes me wonder why he isn't a dealer in a casino
“But before you go, could you please shuffle my deck? Just once?”
I'd just call a judge over and tell homie to hold a DQ.
@@hlaw2830 looool
@@Absolutepower7 You can pile shuffle up front, you can't do that shit at the end.
RUclips: hey now's a good time to recommend a video from 13 years ago
Wait.. you too??
Me as well
RUclips is trying to tell us something.
Recommended in January 2021 gang
It's amazing how convinced you are that the RUclips algorithm can understand you ...
Omg, its been 16 years since I first saw this. Can't believe this video still exist. LOL
I love all the Yugioh comments when the description literally says he’s at a MtG tournament
Yugioh players are known for their lack of reading skills.
^ As an active Yugioh player I can confirm we have the reading ability equal to A drunk horse
@@sagumosageyo943 😂😂😂😂 Its hurtful but true
@@Mjandro as a yugioh player this is wrong. You forgot that we also can't count
@@sillyYata LMAO true
Its like when Musashi purposely went 3 days late on a duel to annoy his opponent thus getting a psychological advantage
And picked a time of day when the sun would be to his back
My boy understands
How can you get away with being 3 days late without being disqualified?
@@We_Are_Borg_478 I is not taking place in a tournament, it’s in vagabond.
@@ohtfx5679 What's Vagabond?
He shuffled it so hard, he now sees that man's entire future through the stars.
このシャッフルが後のポーカーに生きてるんだよね。
ここから伏線を張っていたとはなかなかやるなハゲっピー
いや、その前に梅澤違いwww
おもんないぞ
性格わっる
@@PS-ow1un コメ主は性格悪くても犯罪者じゃないからなぁ。
@@PS-ow1un
性格悪いのはお前も同じやろ
This dude does not "shuffle" cards he performs a damn tarot reading
He knows everyone in the room’s futures. Phillip will need to get a much better job, very important *very*
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
すげーなトモハッピー
急におすすめ出てきやがった
しかもこのシャッフルは感動する
マジックザギャザリングが本当に好きなんだろーね
同士いてうれしい
なんか見覚えある顔だなって思ったらトモハッピーか！
誰なん？
@@user-xi6st8qm1n トモハッピーさんです！最近は令和の虎などにも出演されて、カードショップの経営やRUclipsなど幅広い分野で活躍されている方です👍
ですが、賭博ポーカーがバレて大変なとこになってます(^^;;
このタイミングでおすすめ出してくるRUclipsさんさすがっすねぇ〜
this video always give me chills
For me, the most impressive thing is that before he divided the deck into 5 piles, he splitter the deck in 2 perfect halves
For real though
LOL!!!! Oh yeah!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I would say the first shuffle part wasn't really a shuffle. The top half of the deck never moves. And the bottom half is just being cut over and over again (if he really good perfectly cut so the cards don't really change place)
lol I doubt he is cheating but it is a good way to try and get away with cheating. The way he shuffles he can get away with the top half of the deck being in the specific order he wants.
@@xavierdeguzman7894 he shuffled his opponents deck
@@xavierdeguzman7894 true but then when he piled the stacks he randomized those top cards as well, unless he is hoping to hit every 6th and 10th card without searching. But yeah if he didn't pile, you would have a valid point.
POV: your opponent is playing mine burn
tfw you have mystic mine ptsd
Oh god...
Mine support to crush the npc combo decks
God dammit Mystic Mine
He is at a magic tournament lol
Tomoharu Saito was my inspiration in the early 2010s and even assisted me in piloting a modern take on his GB rock deck. This man was a brilliant player.
I could only dream of shuffling this well and this efficiently.
Me: *opens youtube
RUclips rec: "Tomahoru Saito Shuffles"
Me: 🤔🤔🤔🤔 ok gonna watch it.😆
Same here
Same
Same yup
Now do the rest of you also watch other MtG content on RUclips? I’m trying to figure out what the algorithm was thinking with this one.
@@Red0991 I do lol
When RUclips algorithms recommend a 13 year old video, but this dude’s table shuffle was clean and done in less than a minute.
凄くシャッフルの仕方とか素敵だなとは思ったんですけど
すみませんnothingで
ただただかっこいい！！
When you are playing against draitron and really want to draw that one copy of mask
you're giving me ptsd
@@zagorsaxe No, 3 copies
@@zagorsaxe Pretty sure not, I just run 1because I had one extra space on my side deck, since I run 2 1 ofs
@@zagorsaxe you too
How's this way of shuffling called tho
いきなりオススメに出てきて困惑してますが、トモハッピーのプロ時代ということなんでしょうね。やっぱカッコイイわ
He gathers the cards like magic
It's been 15 years, I don't know how he is and I miss playing cards like this..
He is currently the president of m:tg and a Pokemon card specialty store in Japan.
@@nebukuro9301 really??can you get some picture or link video, pls?
RUclips channelトモハッピー OK？
めっちゃ慣れてるやん。ポーカーで金賭けてやってそう
それから謝罪する時に犬の鳴き声聞こえてきそう
I actually appreciate that RUclips decided to suggest a video from 13 years ago. Looks like I wasn't the only one.
You're not as smart as you think you are.
@@GraemeGunn Have a great life
Man is like
"Ancestors, smile upon me in this game of chance and skill, give me the grace of majong masters and whip this fools ass."
lol
And send this fool, back to FORTNITE!
your mean hes like
China, you said you'd pay off the refs dont let them catch me cheating.
oh they didnt see me stack the same 5 cards on the top of my power shuffle, hiyaaaa
This comment made my day haha
Ah. The mtg life. Such a good game. Great people for the most part. And you get to expand on that childhood nostalgia.
Never thought I'll see a minute shuffle look cooler than 5-10 second one
As he raised his eyes to heaven, young Tohomaru uttered a small prayer to the Pend God, Steven Trifunoski, and asked that he open Pend Call Darkwurm - Amen
Weird to open call and wurm when he's playing MTG lmao
Pend best deck in every game let's go :)
@@pablomadrid6962 why wouldn't you want to open a 4 mana 1800/1000 trample haste?
Also when link, pendulum, Xyz, and synchro aren't existing yet
Ash
When you really need a good RNG for the win
The slightly open mouth shows how he is 100% doing this all the time and it is like routine for him
Man was peering right into the heart of the cards
This guy: "Is that good?"
Me: "Yeah, shuffle some more."
the guy was cheating
@@wompwomp9315 for real?
@@astray032 no
@@astray032 Yeah. You can't shuffle like that. Pile shuffles and cutting donxt randomize the deck
If they let him go for just a bit longer, he would've started levivating.
As someone who is terrible at shuffling, I envy this man. All my mana ALWAYS ENDS UP CLUMPED TOGETHER
Why not get your own cards? Why do you have to use your boyfriend's?
@@machina5 mana
It's one thing if you just have a bad habit of not randomizing your deck well after picking up your lands at the end of a game, but do you know the word for making sure you have a land every few cards? Cheating.
I had that problem, there’s a trick that helps prevent that. After each game, shuffle everything except for your library. After that, shuffle everything into your library.
Legend has it he is practicing a technique that shuffles a deck back into sealed packs to draft with.
何故13年前の動画が突然オススメに出てきたん？しかし凄いシャッフルだ
Admire tomahatu saito his skills are amazing, with shuffle like that things be very random and better for players on both sides. His skill set is legendary!
中学受験会場で見かける天才顔の少年にそっくりだ
何回みてもすこ
I’m more impressed that he can pile that quick
when he was spreading the cards on the table, he look like he can make good subway sandwiches XD
Underrated comment.
Underrated
Absolutely underrated😂
340マン再生おめでとうございます
I actually played in this event... its funny going back and watching things like this, reminds me of when you could actually play magic for a living and actually see the world doing it. This was a block constructed event, it was a lot of fun.
I really miss when videos went straight to the point.
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you just don't know where to look
RUclips recommendations really be like: Wanna watch some guy shuffle his cards?
For the first time this is totally relevant for me
Also it is a 13 years old video.
stfu
This is how I shuffle. I vaguely remember this video from back then and never gave it much thought but I picked up his shuffling method. Didn't even remember this till this popped up and someone asked how'd I learn this way
Those slapping sounds just might help me sleep at night
14 years and this man still shuffling
@@Chimera.7 Frl 15 years he still shufflin'
Now he is the youtuber w/ 125000 subscribers.
And He actually does that
"everyday i'm shufflin"
😂😂😂
Nowadays this is a pretty common shuffle thanks to this guy
0:20 くらいからの
夕飯何食おうかなー、あいかんいかん大戦に集中しなきゃ、でもカレーとかもいいなー
みたいな顔好き
This technique helped him place third in a poker tournament.
*Imagine his opponent pull insta win combo after that long shuffle*
Opponent: thank you
Saito: kuso....
Drew Exodia on first turn
Lol., 😂🤣
@@EUCLlD it’s mtg.
@@TheFremontTroll07 ah yes, Magic: The Gathering of YuGiOh! Cards
Little did they know he had worked out the perfect way to shuffle in order to have his cards in his ideal order
My initial reaction to this is that I can't believe this is considered legal shuffling. This is exactly how a card mechanic would shuffle a deck to appear to be shuffling thoroughly while actually controlling cards. I also thought that piling cards at high level events was not allowed because it creates opportunities to stack your deck.
he feels good every time he shuffles the deck
Those cards went from pristine to slightly used in one shuffle
Remember guys this video was posted 13 years ago. Imagine the god level shuffling he’s at right now
He did a video try to do this shuffle around 2020-2021 iirc
Trying to get the speed of the shuffle, he's out of practice, hiccups here and there, and trying diffent types of sleeve.
He's in the TCG business right now, owning Hareruya TCG store, having multiple stores across Japan and Asia
If you see your opponent shuffling his cards this well, the match is already won. Makes him look so super professional and cool.
You can call the judge, looks like he is pile shuffling
nope
14年後まさかあんな風になるなんて...
nothingで
賭博賭けハッピー😆
こいつあの賭博氏？
@@user-wo5vl9dx6g そうだよ
@@user-vz6oj9oh4o アイコンと名前ww
That was kinda relaxing to watch
Me: plays Yugioh
This video: Magic guy shuffling cards
RUclips, 13 years later: Wanna watch?
Me: Sure
The fact he split the deck in half perfectly 😳
Having an open mouth the whole time maxes out his aerodynamics, increasing his speed
15 years since this was posted?? I wonder were I give it my like... Banned or not, still looks smooth.
Imagine him accidently flipping a card on that shuffle, he would need to start over.
Imagine if his enemy asked the judge to ask him to shuffle properly.
That shuffle is like crippling your entire deck
2008 is such a great year
Nice, had a friend who shuffled clean like that and I learned from him. It's equally mesmerizing to watch as it is to do.
これがオススメにあるとかホントGoogleに生活支配されてるわ
That shuffling is amazing but the mouth breathing is otherworldly
This guy inspired me to learn this shuffle when I was in high school. I learned it and the shuffling phase went by way faster. Gets a little tricky if you are using Edh but it's still faster than conventional. Although, I think there were some rule changes where you couldn't end a shuffle with pile shuffling, so what I started doing is I would overhand shuffle a couple times, then pile shuffle to count my cards and when I combine the piles, I mash shuffle them, then mash shuffle 2-3 more times. Works for me even if it isn't the 'recommended' 17-18 shuffles to get a deck perfectly random.
FYI. Overhand shuffling is the type you see in the YUGIOH cartoon. You take a random amount of cards from the bottom and move them to the top. I'll usually slide a random amount from the bottom pile to the top at a time. Mash shuffling is the type you see in the beginning of his shuffle. You take approximately half the pile and sort of shove it into the other half usually with the corner. Only works with sleeved cards. And pile shuffling is what you see him finish with. Self explanatory, just separate them into piles. You are only allowed one of these to count your cards because normally, it takes a while and it doesn't randomize the cards. It pseudo randomizes them but you can easily reverse the pile shuffling and return the pile to it's original state. That's why you only get one and you can't end shuffling with it.
Thank you for saying the name of the shuffling! I want to learn how to shuffle like that but I wouldn't know what to search for 😊
@@once.upon.a.time. agreed
what he does is a vertical mass shuffle right? the pile shuffling looks really clean but I think I'm gonna keep to my 7stack pile shuffle, which goes pretty fast as well. What I usually do (I play mostly EDH) is pile shuffle everything first, then a couple mass shuffles
When he ended shuffling he stood up, because he won.
If this guy was my dealer at the casino, I'll probably quit gambling.
Bruh, imagine phases and responses with this dude
これが今社長としてバチバチに活動してるのすごいなぁ
賭けポーカーしてたがな
His shuffling is smoother than my life
The fact that after he cut, the stack he picked up was divisible by 5
It cus most magic decks in tournaments have 60 cards
@@stevenr3544 no he was saying after the cut. It could have been any number of cards less than 60. Only a fifth of which would have been divisible.
He can shuffle back to the original arrangement while shuffling.
ここまでやると、シャッフルしてない状態に戻ります
Imagine shuffeling your deck like that and than your opponent Firewall dragon FTKs you.
Nibiru
@@danb8950 We think that firewall FTK wouldnt be able to make apollo as 5th summon?
@@niklasstg6957 firewall is banned
@@danb8950 Nooooooo, really.
Yes... yes i know that he is banned.
And behold i also know (like probably 99% of the playerbase) that he will get an Errata so that Firewall dragon FTK isnt possible anymore.
Thats why magic is better
The shuffle is just to hide the long prayer he is doing with his mouth open like that
And way under a minute too thats insane
Its the mouth breathing that really sells it
HOLY JEBUZZ, what did I just bare witness to?!?! That was AMAZING!
I love how the comments are mostly Yugioh players when this guy is a (wouldve been) MTG Hall of Famer
Woulda been?
@@alexhazel this shuffle is very long and he has it timed out to the legal DCI limit every time he takes a shuffle action when he is advantaged. He is a notoriously slow player when up one game in a match. He has been banned for slow play/intentional clock manipulation before.
@@RainbowRandolf I see. Thanks for the info.
@@RainbowRandolf he would fit right in in yugioh then. Intentional slow play is nothing new
@@dudesk099 nor is it in Magic, unfortunately, but it is still a bannable offense.
He shuffling like it was poker but somehow switching the cards in a certain order to his advantage by the feel of the card
めっちゃ綺麗で速い🤣