Does someone know how this works? Because it is important to know it, now that we have all this Dredge stuff.
In a “real life TCG” you would need to shuffle the deck, in order to make something like “Tradeable” work (because when you put a card in your deck “manually”, then it is not random, so you would need to shuffle and make it random).
By intuition I would think that Trading shuffles your deck, because it is how it would work in real life… But this is not real life and in the description of Tradeable “shuffling” is not mentioned while other cards clearly state it.
You could test it with Polkelt. Play Polkelt and then do a trade and see if things remain in order.
I’d also be curious about the “put a card on the bottom” effect, which will come into play frequently with Sunken City. You could probably test that with Sphere of Sapience.
I was watching Kibler test this. I only watched a single game, so this isn’t conclusive, but it seemed that Tradeable does not shuffle. A deck that was stacked by Lorekeeper Polkelt remained stacked for two cards even after a card was Traded, and the third card was the Traded card. It would seem that, instead of shuffling, Trading a card inserts it at a random position in the deck.
This makes sense too. And it is better for all the Dredge mechanics. Sometimes the traded card might pop up at the bottom of your deck, but most of the time it will be irrelevant.
Ok I just tested it against the inkeeper. Like Scrotie told us, tradeable does not shuffle the deck. The card is just placed in a random spot in the deck. So in case of polkelt, you’ll just draw cards in order unless a tradeable card has been placed there.
They changed it in Patch 22.2 to no longer shuffle your deck:
[NEW] There was a slight tweak to how Tradeable functions under the hood, which could cause different behavior in certain situations. Tradeable now inserts the card into the deck at a random location, then draws a different card. (Previously, it was put on the bottom of the deck first, then the draw occurred, and then finally a shuffle happened.)
