Is a deck of cards arranged any less randomly after a game of War? Why?

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I’d typically assume that after most card games, the cards become at least semi-ordered in some way, necessitating shuffling. However, after a standard game of war, I can’t quite figure out how the arrangement would become less random, since the winning and losing card stay together. If they’re indeed mathematically “less random,” after the game, why?

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Entropy would have decreased as instead of the cards being in a less organized state, the cards are now in a pattern with winning and losing cards paired up.

Will this loss of randomness affect a future game, maybe, maybe not.

But it is definitely less random/less entropy.

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