Shuffling and round times

[Dozer]

In the video coverage of Pro Tour Philadelphia, Randy Buehler and Mike Flores mention shuffling a lot. With all those Kodama's Reaches, Time of Need and Sakura Tribe Elders in Block, they say that the shuffling makes the rounds very long. Now I wonder, since Vintage has had this "problem" ever since. The decks we play have on average eight shuffling effects (5 Fetchlands, 3 Tutors), in many cases more.

Now, control matches in Vintage often go to time. Is shuffling partially responsible for that? If you take just two minutes for a shuffle, with a rough estimation you could say that at least 10 minutes a round get "lost" for in-game shuffling. Should this be rectified by playing 60-minute rounds in Vintage? I have no data back-up for this, just fishing for opinions here. (I also feel that this has been discussed before, I just could not find it.)

To be precise: Would 60-minute rounds be too long? Personally, I think they would, and there is no need.

Dozer

[Machinus]

[EDIT: Ray stole your thread, and I had some replies to his post, so my reply has been moved.]

[iamfishman]

Lol...I made my post in the thread into a sperate thread because I DIDN'T want to step on Dozer's toes and I thought I was headed in a different dirrection from what he was saying.

If my comments were really not that far off, please merge my thread back in...I certainly didn't want to steal anyone's thunder.