Ruling Searching your deck

[PMJ]

If you play a card, say, Mr. Stone's Project, and take 2 basic Energy from your deck, do you have to stop looking through your deck immediately and shuffle or are you still allowed to search through your deck at your leisure and shuffle when you are ready to?

 

[BM1014]

I don't think so, since you can see what cards are at which position and you can top deck the card you need.

 

[StealthAngel667]

^He means that you can watch the deck some more, THEN shuffle it. Cards like these can never be used to topdeck something you want.
I think this is perfectly normal. Your choice is probably only absolute once you shuffled it, so if you stumble upon a card you really needed and replace it with an earlier selection, I can't see how that would be wrong.

 

[PMJ]

This is true, since it's possible that there are different-colored Energy in your deck, but I would think that since the card says take two, and you did take two... I can see it argued both ways.

I'll wait for other replies.

 

[Chairman Kaga]

Personally I do this all the time I always look at the whole deck on my first search of the game to make sure a critical card isn't prized, and adjust my go-forward strategy accordingly. At other times, I'll play something like Scott, take out three cards, and then see something more useful and change my mind.

There isn't really a hard rule on this -- it would be at the discretion of the judge. Personally I think once you start shuffling, you've committed to your choice and can't go back, but before that I wouldn't see an issue.

 

[PMJ]

Okay, thank you.

 

[The Dark Toxicroak]

Yes as long as you shuffle after you can even unclog groups of cards then shuffle as long as you don't take long because you might get a delay of game penalty.