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ronne
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It's more with I don't think they have the manpower/talent to backport that many sets in any reasonable timeframe, and what work they do do adding new cards to the platform (outside the required standard) seems 100% focused on historic nonsense.
When was the last time they even mentioned Pioneer as a format?
When was the last time they even mentioned Pioneer as a format?
TheNozz
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So I eventually need to devote a day to playing like 100 matches to be sure, but yeah; there's no way that Arena is completely random.
Worst offenders I've seen are:
* Playing Brawl and facing same enemy commander, if not same opponent twice in a row
*Casting Omen of the Hunt and immediately (after library has been "shuffled") saccing it to Scry 2 only for there to be two forests underneath in back to back games
*Miracle top decks which let opponent win (again in brawl)/miracle top deck that lets me win
*Opponent having every single card they needs to counter my deck while setting their combos up
Worst offenders are always in Brawl. the format should be akin to having a bag full of letters, randomly pulling out one each turn, and trying to make the best words possible. but, inevitably, for one player, the game is more like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...etc
Games that are balanced, where both players get to utilize their decks are so rare, it's still fun even when losing. 9/10 one player, through any combination of land fucked/flood, miracle draws, mirror match or enemy having perfect opening hand, just gets steam rolled
Worst offenders I've seen are:
* Playing Brawl and facing same enemy commander, if not same opponent twice in a row
*Casting Omen of the Hunt and immediately (after library has been "shuffled") saccing it to Scry 2 only for there to be two forests underneath in back to back games
*Miracle top decks which let opponent win (again in brawl)/miracle top deck that lets me win
*Opponent having every single card they needs to counter my deck while setting their combos up
Worst offenders are always in Brawl. the format should be akin to having a bag full of letters, randomly pulling out one each turn, and trying to make the best words possible. but, inevitably, for one player, the game is more like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...etc
Games that are balanced, where both players get to utilize their decks are so rare, it's still fun even when losing. 9/10 one player, through any combination of land fucked/flood, miracle draws, mirror match or enemy having perfect opening hand, just gets steam rolled
Ritley
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Yeah the matchmaking is definitely not random, its dependent on what decks you are using. They try to match up like power level decks, to varying degrees of success. The rest sounds like RNG.
The only other thing I know that isn’t actually random is BO1 opening hands. They apparently draw 2 opening hands and pick one, weighted towards having the ratio of lands closer to your overall deck ratio.
The only other thing I know that isn’t actually random is BO1 opening hands. They apparently draw 2 opening hands and pick one, weighted towards having the ratio of lands closer to your overall deck ratio.
