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Dec 28, 2012 -- 9:53PM, rhazghuul wrote:

In a tournament when you pass your deck across for your opponent to cut your deck can you opponent pick your deck up and shuffle it as many times as he wants, then cut it and then hand it back to you?

Yes. After you present your deck, the opponent gets to shuffle further if he wants. When he's done, that's it -- you don't get to do anything further to the deck.

Here is the procedure, as written in the Magic Tournament Rules:

3.9 Card Shuffling

Decks must be randomized 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.

Once the deck is randomized, it must be presented to an opponent. By this action, players state that their decks are legal and randomized. The opponent may then shuffle it additionally. Cards and sleeves must not be in danger of being damaged during this process. If the opponent does not believe the player made a reasonable effort to randomize his or her deck, the opponent must notify a judge. Players may request to have a judge shuffle their cards rather than the opponent; this request will be honored only at a judge’s discretion.

If a player has had the opportunity to see any of the card faces of the deck being shuffled, the deck is no longer considered randomized and must be randomized again.

At Competitive and Professional REL tournaments, players are required to shuffle their opponents’ decks after their owners have shuffled them. The Head Judge can require this at Regular REL tournaments as well.

Also is swiss cutting it legal; where my opponent spreads my deck into like 15 piles and then puts it back together and hands it to me?

Yes. Think of it as a really inefficient shuffle :P