Cascade

[eisenhorn]

Do i have to offer my cascaded cards for my opponent to cut every time?

[merlin the wizard]

Yes is the short answer.

[Graham]

Stelios - can't find why this should be the case - can you give the long answer as well. Tournament Rules only refer to presenting a shuffled deck, not randomized cards

[Cannar Wilm]

Stelios talked to me about this tonight and I think the answer is yes. My reasoning is based on the following section on card shuffling in the Tournament Rules:

3.8 Card Shuffling
Decks must be randomized using some form of riffle and/or mash shuffle at the start of every game and whenever an instruction requires it. Randomization is defined as bringing the deck to a state where no player can have any information regarding the order or position of cards in any portion of the deck. Pile shuffling alone is not sufficiently random.

Note that the section defines 'randomization' and how it relates to shuffling. It continues:

3.8 Card Shuffling
Once the deck is randomized, it must be presented to an opponent.

Now although this says 'deck' (I believe this is just a grammatical oversight) I think this supports offering the cut.

Besides, who doesn't enjoy offering 1 card to an opponent to cut ?

[Graham]

Yes that's the section I found - seems a reasonable thing to do of course.