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[@matthewhighline1285]

Taylor cheated at 3:59. He searched Madam Edel put it to the bottom of the deck searched basche and used an over hand false shuffle to move Madam Edel to the top of the deck.

[@LiiChinHo]

Dayum

[@nextdimensionhobby]

Very good catch! Knowing Taylor, I pretty much guarantee that this was unintentional but I entirely agree that the shuffle was not acceptable. This is why you *always* cut your opponents deck!

[@SJacko_12]

This is a great spot thank you. I will come out and say Taylor is a standup guy and don't think this was intentional, I think its more born out of wanting to protect his expensive sleeve that he won at an event so avoids riffle shuffling/sleeve shuffle. That being said I 100% agree his shuffling technique should be more thorough, incorporating a cut of his own before offering it to his opponent to cut and this is something we will feedback to Taylor

[@herosofloveanddeath]

After reading your comment i watched that again thinking it probably wasn't that bad, but they literally just held that card and put it on top....... oof

[@hansdavidson3600]

@@herosofloveanddeath the second "shuffle" 7:46 has him looking through his deck for vesvia and merald (which he considered) and then "shuffling" it to near the top of his deck look, none of this is good enough for someone to claim that taylor's cheating, but these are absolutely egregious shuffles and i think it's just as irresposible for the organizers to conclude that there 100% wasn't any cheating that occured because "he's a standup guy". answer from everybody (Taylor included, who deleted his comment) is "yeah this isn't acceptable, thanks for pointing it out we'll look into it, and this won't happen again".