A No-Shuffle home game? Would this work?

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Shuffling is time consuming. Shuffling machines don't work well enough. Using the same deck or two allows for marking or crimping cards. Allowing players to shuffle invites cheating.

So..what if I bought about 200 decks of cards and pre-shuffled them, put them back in their boxes, and made up some system which randomizes when a deck gets used (picking it out of a hat or something)? After a deck is used once, it is set aside, and another deck is randomly chosen.

I think the home game format which would see the biggest benefit from this kind of system would be single-table tournaments. You'd be able to get in more hands since no time is spent shuffling. Or you could set the blind structure up in such a way that the levels change every so many decks/hands (like 20 or so).

Just a random idea I had while trying to sleep.

Any downsides besides having to procure hundreds of decks of cards? This could be done cheaply with Bicycle or Bee cards.

Anyone willing to try this and report the results?