Shuffling Machines

[Flaming Monkey]

I have seen one or two other rulings questioned about shuffling here, and I have yet another to present.

If I were to find a shuffling machine (ones used to shuffle ordinary playing cards) that would work with sleeves, would it be legal to use? I would really like to have a completely random deck without question. I don't want to have any problems with rule calls or my deck not being sufficiently randomized.

Thanks.

 

[PokePop]

There are no published rules about shuffling machines and I'm not going to make one up.
I can't answer this.

 

[bulbasnore]

This is going to be up to your head judge and TO. I might disallow its use were it at my event. I am not an expert on machinery of that type and can't tell if its automatically manipulating the deck in some way, based on subtle variance of the cards and sleeves. Not saying its at all likely, just saying its definitely possible and I couldn't tell. A machine could discriminate these things more repeatably than a human. It might be "casino certified" or whatever, but I could not tell if it had been modified.