What is this kind of card shuffling called?

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Its a grid of cards where you take 1 card at a time to create a grid of say 2 wide and 2 tall, (although it could be any number wide/tall)

ASCII Drawing;

[[Deck]] -> Add one card to create 4 stacks and repeat the process over & over.

[Card] [Card]
[Card] [Card]

As you take cards you add it to a random stack thus creating (in the above example) 4 stacks (or decks) of cards

What is this shuffle called?

I've always called it pile shuffling, but I don't know if that is its real name. — Becuzz, Mar 24 '15 at 18:41
As noted by official Magic The Gathering tournament rules, this type of shuffling is, simply put: *inadequate*. — Forget I was ever here, Sep 19 '17 at 10:24

Rainbolt · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-24T23:50:41.313

This is called random pile shuffling. Wikipedia defines pile shuffling as:

Cards are simply dealt out into a number of piles, then the piles are stacked on top of each other.

Here is a YouTube video demonstrating pile shuffling.

Trivia

At a Magic: the Gathering tournament, pile shuffling by itself is not a sufficient means of randomization.

Two others popular types of shuffling are (warning, these are video links) mash shuffling and riffle shuffling.

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