Algorithm Improvement
I'm sure you're getting a lot of complaints about how one-sided your algorithm is not being impartial and often times screwing over players with land draws that should not be happening in a purely random sample - so my complaint can be added to that pile.
But, an idea for changing the algorithm to improve randomization would be having the program assign a number to each card remaining in a deck and pile shuffling the cards into X amount of piles (let's say 6). It can repeat this process Y amount of times then take the middle of the pile and put those cards on top. A better template would be from the card shuffler for poker sets from stores.
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MysticSquid#48745 commented
With all the new changes you propose when are you going to actually fix and balance the shuffler, Currently you have missed the mark so badly that you're not even remotely close. The issue with mana flood/***** isn't with the opening hand, it's what happens after is what is keeping players away and hand smoothing has exasperated the issue because flood/***** happens 50% more often then before. All you have done is put an exploit that is seriously dumbing down the game killing it's intellectual aspect , by promoting and basically forcing everyone to play mono aggro decks. In case you haven't noticed you are losing a lot of the older players with the disposable income and a seriously love of the game because of this blatant stupidity. You actually have the worst shuffler of all the ccg's online at the moment and some mickey mouse indie games have created better shufflers off of dice rolls of all things. But my main issue is when are you going to do something to return magic to it's actual roots of being a chess game with cards and not just another button masher that is just a fad past time.
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kazu masu#85226 commented
クリーチャー21
非クリーチャー24
土地 22で、
14枚で
クリーチャー1
非クリーチャー5
土地8本当に
偏ってからの
マッチを楽しめましたか
が、
わかっていてやっているなら気持ち悪い。 -
SexyBoo4RU#97772 commented
Please fix your AI shuffling. It isnt fun anymore cause every time you play a game (regular or Ranked) the AI doesnt shuffle right. I either get ALL lands or get ALL creatures with NO lands for many many turns. By the time i get to play anything the game is over. This is getting ridiculous. Please fix this AI shuffling so that it balances the shuffling. (EX. I have 65 lands in my deck and i get all lands when playing the game, or all creatures with no lands for 8-10 turns). By this time im dead cause i cannot play anything.
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Faccus#34865 commented
impossible to play draft, match making is very very bad.
in 2 and a half months I achieved a mythical 97% of constructed, in draft I am bronze and I find players of too high ranks, this makes me lose coins and gems, will this problem ever be solved? it makes me want to play it
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Demosthenes#45904 commented
WTF is wrong with your gd awful algorithm. Hundreds of @#$@#$ games, literally 95% opponent goes first. In a game where going first wins 40% more often. Well done you morons of the coast, well done.
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TormentoR#53827 commented
Deat WotC member.
I made a deck combining Orcish Bowmaster and Flumph with Resolute Watchdog. Potentially you can have both players draw infinte cards on turn 3.
My win condition is having 64 cards in my deck rather than 60, so my opponent will loose for having no cards to draw. A nice plan, but now THE BUG occurs.
I started 14 ranked historic matches, all 14 of the opponents having decks of 70 tp 250 cards. THE MATCH MAKING IS RIGGED! It is matchfixing.
Therefore I ask WotC to refund all purchases I have ever made in MTG Arena after which I will delete my account. I want to play a fair game of magic, not be cheated into losses.
Kind regards, Niels
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Azriel1987#22560 commented
Yeah, I've stopped paying you idiots money and won't drop a **** dime until you fix your ****.
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Azriel1987#22560 commented
Your game is bad and you should feel bad.
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Arch The Stray Wolf#50805 commented
I don't think this has been said enough times. I can see other people have already complained about this problem and I'm starting to see a trend here. Whether you guys care or not, I still think this should be fixed, it's making the game experience absolutely horrible and not only has it happened to me, it's been happening to lots of my friends who have recently began to play MTG Arena quite constantly. I'm not really sure what the origin of this problem is but we'd really appreciate it if you just found a solution for it because the game has become pretty boring lately, we usually play against each other or in Ranked and whatever we do, we're struck with the same issue, so please, do something about this.
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CheeseMan#73110 commented
Seriously. It's insanely broken. It's absolutely messed up that WotC, having perfected their shuffling system in MTGO, decided to break there shuffling system in Magic Arena. I can only assume they did it on purpose. Honestly, I wouldn't be suprised when a class action lawsuit pops up, especially considering how much money people pour into this game. ****, how much money I did before I knew how broken their shuffling algorithm is. 26 mana in a 2.3 avg mana deck and I get mana screwed 1 out of 2 games. This is absolutely apalling and ridiculous. Time to switch to Flesh & Blood, which honestly makes me sad considering I've been a loyal MTG player since Revised.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/b21u3n/i_analyzed_shuffling_in_a_million_games/
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kazu masu#85226 commented
本当に偏るわ。
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Arms#18296 commented
Horrible draws, and consistently land locked or overdrawing on lands. Please fix your algo’s
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Mordrid#17167 commented
Sent a load of complaints to WotC about Arena after update. Got standard “cookie cutter” response:
Thank you for contacting Wizards of the Coast Customer Service. I'm very sorry to hear that you've had some undesirable results while playing MTG Arena. I assure you that our algorithms, including matchmaking, the shuffler, coin flips, and others, have been tested at length and are working as intended. All players are on the same playing field using the exact same rules.
NO! It is not the same for everyone. Ithe game cheats you if you haven’t spent cash on it for a few days. It always sc**ws your draws, and even blatantly cheats to make you loose. I went against a deck with my destroyer deck: white/black with multiple destroys, target remove and mass exile cards, and peons that bounce back from graveyard. Whole game only got 3 mana and only pulled cards with cost 4+. That in of itself isn’t the cheating (even though it happens every sing game now), my opponent dropped a March from the Black Gates that amass’ orc 1, then dropped a Dreadhorde Invasion that amass’ zombies 1, and the orc just kept ramping. Just the orc twice every round. No Zombies. Finaly got a one ring out and wouldn’t you know. He had JUST THE PERFECT CARD to get rid of it. Draws from that point on were downhill. No more land and everything he drew just annihilated any creature I dropped. This was just one instance.
Dozen of other instances of NEVER drawing a creature. Never drawing a land. I could draw a buff card, but no creature to cast it on. I play a mono color deck and it is just the same. I play blue counter deck and am only paired with a black deck that has a ton of distress like cards to constantly discard, while opponent has a consistent land drop. I play mono-red haste and I am not putting any creatures and am paired with a blue counter deck that has tons of counters and landfall *****. The game is BROKEN.
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kazu masu#85226 commented
公式に
デッキの構成割合を無視する不正をしていることが明らか。 -
kazu masu#85226 commented
そして、
今度は10枚に土地1すかさず
マッチを楽しめましたか?と聞いてくる。
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kazu masu#85226 commented
本当に唱えにくいわ。
クリーチャー21
非クリーチャー22
土地22
のデッキで11枚のうち
土地8枚。 -
K.night#36797 commented
in ranking match and casual match
Matching is clearly unfavorableseems that the draw is clearly manipulated to work against it
You can see that the win or loss is decided in advance just by drawing from the first hand to the 3rd turn.
For example,20 cards drawn, including an opening hand of 7 and an extra drawToo likely to draw lands and,The probability that the draw is a land at the timing to decide the victory or defeat is remarkably high
As evidence of this, in a match where you can win, you can always draw a spell card in a match where you win or lose, and the amount of land you draw is also a matter of probability.
Isn't MTGArena a solitaire that simply performs the victory or defeat decided in the game instead of fair ability?
Game nature is broken as an interpersonal game
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MammothHorde#87622 commented
My last "best of 1" standard tourney entry felt like a scam. With a 62-card deck with 15 creatures and 22 lands, I experienced both mana flood and drought. One game saw only 2 land draws in 10 rounds and the other game saw 7 rounds of lands and 1 creature draw. The only reason the game between the two mentioned experiences was different was that I mulligan down to 4 cards in my second game. This sort of response has yet to occur with this deck in standard ranked or play in over 20 hours of gameplay with this set of cards. This is not the first time I've experienced polar opposite deck performance between tournaments and ranked. Please look into this, I play magic because MTG Area is more convenient and entertaining to me than the other formats but tournament play doesn't seem to have provided the same opening hand opportunities as ranked or play, leaving players feeling swindled out of gems.
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Gradius9989#54610 commented
This company WONT EVER FIX THE PERFECT OPPONENT DRAW TO ALWAYS WIN. Its a stupid constant that is when ur on the draw. HATE YOU WOTC. Alsoo REMOVE ALCHEMY ONLY CARDS FROM HISTORIC ITS BS
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Arms#18296 commented
Don’t rig draws, it’s not fair and just a way to get people to spend money. I’d expect better from MTG. It’s too obvious.
Pics - too many lands, and continuous land draws; or creature cards deluxe and mulligans that don’t help and end up just quitting.