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[[File:Shuffle.png|thumb|200x200px|Deck cutting in the manga]]

'''Cutting''' the [[Main Deck|Deck]] is a way of reorganizing cards in the Deck. Cutting involves splitting the Deck into a few separate piles, most preferably two piles, then stacking the piles together differently to how they originally were. Since cutting does not change the relative order of the cards, it may not be used as a substitute for [[Shuffle|shuffling]].

In the anime and manga, during the Duel between [[Yami Yugi]] and [[Arkana]], Arkana had used the [[stripper technique]], so he trimmed the edges of his "[[Dark Magician (Arkana) (anime)|Dark Magician]]" cards, so when Yugi cut Arkana's Deck he would inadvertently cut it at the point so that the "Dark Magician" would be on top of a small stack, ensuring that one of the cards would be at the top of the entire Deck. Yugi, however, saw through this tactic due to Arkana using the card-damaging "shotgun shuffle" and devised a [[Card Destruction|counter]] against it.

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