i stopped going to pokemon card events when i learned that literally everyone organized their decks in advance to be in order of what they wanted to drawonline tcg games also draw your cards so that no matter what you have a 50% w/l
>>98745523>Playing card gamesThis is like going to casino and wondering how you're losing money.
>>98745523Do you not cut their deck?
I put my cards in the worst possible order so that shuffling them causes them to be positioned correctly
>exchange decks to shuffle>manually line the cards out and pick them back up in reverse order>return the deck to them with a smile
>>98745523>online tcg games also draw your cards so that no matter what you have a 50% w/lThe fact there are still people who deny this is a thing in games blows my mind.
>>98746075Is there any proof of it though? Can you observe the deck somehow? It's a trivial matter to simply make a deck an array, analyzing the entire game and picking out specific cards would be a horrendous undertaking.
>>98746092It would be pretty easy in a lot of games i think. For mtg just stop giving out lands or flood them if you're winning too much. For yugioh dont draw cards that match keywords on the field or hand. Or just delay drawing tuners and setup cards.
>>98746059That might get you a warning for stalling or slow play, even though it's technically still in setup phase.
>>98746142Yeah, but you'd have to account for so many goddamn edge cases that someone would, within the day, realize that something was up.
I stopped playing these card games when the devs made it very clear that I was not supposed to trap me and my opponent in a game where neither of us can move again, ever, and it is simply a contest of who has more patience and willpower.
>>98746172Then the very hobby is weakminded>>98746184based and staxpilled
>>98746142But a 50/50 w/l ratio would out the game as being rigged as the best magic players have a 66/33 w/l ratio,
