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New sub here. Got the game yesterday and your guides really helped.

I live in Alchemy Ranks, Perp cards are too fun white black Bats

i play Arena just because i dont have time and a town (local) store to play paper magic. Arena is Rigged in matchmaking and shuffler. as you said if Arena match you with some one with same MMR as you then that means its rigged and its not random ( i dont care if the guy is new or Pro , i just want to play and have a good time ) , if i lost Vs a PTW deck let it be , by seeing his deck i can take ideas and improve my deck or decks in the future. i dont mind to lose the game if was a fair game ,i mean "its the way i lose" that bothers and frustrate me. examples that make me rage: 1:get matched with someone who has a perfect answer for everything i do. 2:have a board wipe since turn 1 and only draw the 5 land (taped land) when you already lost the game next turn. 3:play VS 100+ cards deck and he (hallways) have better draw RNG than me with 60 card deck (have lands when need,the answers and his own combo when need). I only beaten 100+card decks only 1 time or 2 with a 60 card deck. and yes the game have force loss games. the people who say it does not are trolls or just Wizzards employees. once again this game is the most rigged game i ever saw and like i said i only play it because i cant play paper magic in my town. PS: in Arena if you start with a card lets name it "X" you already know you will draw more "X" in the next 5 turns , or start with 3 of the same card in the opening hand and the next draws are the just the same i mean you have 3 day of judgement on opening hand then draw 1 go for the throat in the next 2 or 3 draws you will draw another go for the throat 100%... does the game actually have shuffler?

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You can be a beast at drafting and still get shafted by the shuffler. Luck is absolutely 50% of what wins games

FYI, you say spotify shuffle giving you the same songs over and over as an example of randomness gonna be randomness... except spotify's shuffle is known to not be random lol th-cam.com/video/OdLyKETk5o0/w-d-xo.html

What's the deal with deck sizes in standard recently?

Is there an active discord for mtg arena?

at the start you will win then you evolve the more your opponent will have all the answers, this game is a huge joke and a rigged game, avoid putting money in a rigged game

Trying out a new deck with Moss Hydra now, found mono green a bit lacking without the removal spells so added some blue and it's working really well. Love the channel btw, excellent work sir.

Thanks buddy I’m new and watching a lot of your vids.

you have this videos too th-cam.com/video/Q50t8BvWrsU/w-d-xo.html but I'm sure it's not only for brawl, thanks for your lightening

It isn't just the matchmaker that is rigged: the outcomes are also predetermined. If both players play a perfect game, one player will have drawn the perfect counter to each and every thing the other deck plays. It's not hard for them to rig it: they control the shuffler. Bad luck is occasionally, your opponent will have all the perfect counters. Rigged is 15 games in a row. I have also noticed that it doesn't happen in ranked. But thanks for giving the bog standard response: anyone that notices the rigging must just be bad at the game. Then again, I will just skip out of games when the opponent is playing any kind of perfect counter deck. I end up skipping 80% of games.

So basically they are trying to massively rip you off

Why did Wizards of the Coast not print these Arena starter decks irl for people who get onto the game through Arena weird.

Hi thank you for the video Do you get wildcard refunds for the mythics and the rares you own that rotate out of standard?

This didn’t age well...

I'm not going to spend money online for bs where I don't keep my money. I would rather buy the cards. And I keep my real cards. Yes, but it's investment is on paper arena is bs

As if hand shuffling were superior to psedo randomness... im yet to see players to shuffle properly

im playing some 70+ deck when trying new stuff , i think i add too much value to deck

I've had a land card saying "choose an enemy to deal one damage to" but i couldnt choose, it always dealt the one damage to the face of my opponent. What's up with that?

Draft event is big scam paying 350 gems to win 500 gems so if you be very lucky you at least get 200 gem but its like you getting your money back 😂😂😂 I think buying packs is really better and get wildcards to craft

this game is so rigged compared to actual card game - two color drafts where you pull all 1 color and hand is different color happens 1 in 100 games in real life or to draw 7 lands in a row mid game i can count on my hands the number of times that happened irl but just played a draft 3 wins low 2 and 3 cost black red deck then one of these things happens 3 times in a row its really that simple this wouldnt happen in a actual card game the shuffler is broken

I’ve never had a single code ever work for me. I’ve never even put one in so there’s no way I’ve redeemed it already used too many times like it says just started playing and I’m already about to delete it. Way too much money needed for something with little reward magic needs to step up there customer service and appreciation, considering how much you pay for the cards in real life.

I don't know about the shuffler. But... Nevermind. I'll show you the screenshot. I can't explain it. Kind of wigged me out in a big picture kind of sense.

New subscriber! This channel is awesome. I always wondered bout this when playing arena.... I'm still very new to it but I notice it will pair you based on your deck choice with someone similar. I saw another vid discussing this subject. Ty for taking the time to delve into this subject much appreciated!

I still don't see where to get the mono-colored "starter decks"... I did the tutorial as far as I know, and I also did the color challenges... I have "Aerial Domination" somehow (Blue) but for instance, where do I go to earn "Goblins everywhere" (red)?

Very helpful. Thank you.

I've played arena is Hearthstone a lot when it was still a new game and crushed it, was able to build a very big collection of cards by being pretty much f2p. However, as more and more extensions emerged that played the draft for you (ranking cards etc) I stopped playing it as I felt I was playing against these programs not players. Although I could still be infinite since I had the experience to still draft good decks, I felt kinda cheated. Now as a pretty new MTG player (played for a month a year ago getting to diamond with my own deck, but that's it) I'm really curious but afraid to start playing drafts because I feel like I'll get crushed by people who draft very good decks consistently using 3rd party software. Are my fears unfounded? Should I be preparing extensively by reading up on drafts/meta before trying? I'm not going to pay money to enter these so I'll have to scavange 10k gold first, which will take a week or so, so I don't want to throw away that gold. Thanks.

Mono white weenie with raise the past is garbage on arena. After working hard to get set up the game draws because game so slow on game triggers.

Good tips, but try to be more concise. Not necessary to repeat points several times

Interesting video. I do find it a little weird as a newcomer to MTG as while the decks might be starters you often don’t end up being matched against starters so it’s pretty unforgiving. It doesn’t leave me with much desire to play on arena tbh. Just my 2 cents of the last few weeks

Breaks my little heart th-cam.com/video/QNoRxXvagSc/w-d-xo.html

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Here we are going into 2025 with a severely broken product as usual. I don't know how many people still play Arena, but I know how many of them know it's hyper rigged. All of them... Hasbro lays more off for Christmas good, the way it should be... 🤭

Another thing. The game higly benefits aggro decks, whenever i face one, 80% of the times they play first. And do not get me started on combo decks. If they need 4 cards for a turn 1 combo, like phoenix or sorin/vein ripper in timeless, you opponent might even get to mulligan to 3, rest assured they'll find the 4 piece of the combo on their 1st draw.

One thing i do to avoid the rigged match making is to cancel the match search if it goes beyond 8 seconds. Whenever it takes a long time for the game to find someone for you, you always get fucked no matter how well you play.

I know this is an old topic but the way you're saying things in the video are outside of the actual complaint we're not saying they're choosing who wins or loses we're saying they keep the win loss ratio at 50% to push people to spend money to get better cards to try to outperform that 50% ratio. If you play enough it's easy to see the patterns and I play every single day when I win I destroy when I lose I get destroyed there's very little gray area because that's how they want it to be. Matching based on rank absolutely makes perfect sense,matching based on the exact cards I have in my hand is outright cheating and no one can convince me otherwise 🤷🏼‍♂️ If the algorithm knows what cards both decks have in their entirety then the algorithm can easily predict the outcome So the way I see it is they don't choose who wins or loses they just make sure you don't win enough

The matchmaking in this game is 100% broken nobody will ever convince me otherwise I play every single day and have been playing non-stop for the past 2 years I consider myself a power player the patterns are clear and easy to see to test my theory I decided to try to build a deck using a mechanic I had not seen in well over a year and that was a zero creature deck meaning no creature hit the field at any time during the match so I decided to build a deck with no creatures in it, what do you know second match in not a single creature hits the field on either side out of the 50 games that I tracked I faced 7 enemies with no monsters in their decks GTFOH HADN'T SEEN IT ONE TIME IN ABOUT A YEAR AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER the minute I start doing it 7 times in the next 50 games 🤷🏼‍♂️

Thank you so much. I looked every where after a video that shows how you beat this dragon. thank you so much

Just downloaded the game and I want to understand it so bad lol

Hey GSD, I just bought a few packs, as they were on sale for 10% cheaper, so i bought all the current standard ones, for 900 gold. And they all contributed to my golden pack progress, very happy with that change! I did that before seeing this video, so I thought I'd update you! Anither great video, my friend, thank you for your hard work!

"SOMETIMES " it happens over and over again. Contradicting yourself in the same sentence

urborg scav doesnt get the ward ability

It seems clear to me WotC wants to give better draws to players that spend a lot of money to keep them spending, at least at rotation or they want to give bad draws to free people so they think they have to spend money or even more money if already paying. Also... I believe the poll at the end seems misleading where the only 2 choices are: 1-The shuffler is to blame for not only losses but both wins & losses, suggesting the players don't earn wins or... 2-Only the player is responsible for wins. If we cannot see the opponents hand most of the time, we cannot tell how often the rigging is happening to both players.

About 50 to 70 euros for a digital card deck? What the hell is this nonsense? I bought a pretty good bloowburrow commander deck with foil Mabel IRL for 45 euros from card kingdom. Like I've got several real life pioneer decks, cheapest one being around 40 euros, and most expensive one being around 70 euros, all of which have multiple legendary cards in there. Meanwhile Magic arena asks comparable prices for digital decks full of..commons and a few rares? I went out of my way to buy 17 full art bloomburrow mountain and 17 full art bloomburrow plains for that commander deck I mentioned earlier because I ended up liking it so much, and even with 32 full art land cards, that deck still costs less than 65 euros, which is still comparable to a digital Standard Toxic deck where none of the digital cards even have special art. If you were to buy that Standard Dinosaurs deck from Card Kingdom, it would cost like 20 euros, but here, in digital format, it's 50.

I'm a Hearthstone player that wants to dabble in Magic so I understand some basic strategy, but I'm not even that good at Hearthstone. This just seems quite a bit overwhelming. It seems to me like understanding how a certain color plays? Like you said, Red is pretty aggressive while Blue plays a lot of spells. I want to get into this but ugh not sure if I'm just wasting my time. I know players are freakishly good at this game and I feel like it might take me years to really get it.

I just wanted to let people on here know that if you play blue, you deserve to be on a registry of some kind and there needs to be an app to find out exactly where these people live for obvious reasons. That includes board wipers as well. Oh. And the game is rigged. Big time.

I've never got more than one win. Seems like I get consistently fucked on draws/matchups every single time I enter an event. Playing against p2p ungodly decks that are way out of my level for just starting

Can we get this video but updated every video I watch talks about easy daily’s I have one easy daily that changes and the other 2 are 15 wins per day and 15 wins per weeks the rewards seem nerfed from those videos too