Match making, the shuffler, opening hands, the list goes on. This entire game is nothing more than a rigged and played out cash grab. Matchmaker only shows you decks that out curve, counter, or mirror your deck. Hands are rigged from the jump with "smoothing and optimization". BO1 and BO3 both have the same issues. The amount of times your opponent or you have 4/4 of a card by turn 4 or 5. Maybe the fact that the game keeps all players close to that 50% win rate.

This game is a sad excuse for real MTG. during Covid time it could be ignored so that I could still play magic. Now this game is a stain on the community and probably drives away more people than it attracts. The game is rigged, grindy, and flat out isnt fun. Added bonus the community is terrible and the economy is non existent. If you want to enjoy magic uninstall MTGA and go buy paper cards. If you want to stay on the hasbro train and buy digital cards you dont own to play them in a pretty looking rigged ****** proof format than MTGA is for you.

20+ years playing MTG and I have always loved it. MTGA convinced me to sell my cards and step away from the hobby all together.

Land draws is only scratching the surface. Why do I draw 4/4 negates every game by turn 4? why do I never see 1/4 of my fading hopes? The shuffler seems to pick favorite cards and feed them to you non stop, while other, more useful cards are never seen. This game is terrible, and its sad because the UI is beautiful. Sad Wizards and hasbro decided to cheat players hands to encourage spending. very manipulative, and sad there are 50k people playing too stupid to notice all of the statistical anomolies.

Amen! I have had this issue for 2 years now, at one point i spent an entire week to get more than 2 mana in my first hand, with 100s of games, and still no luck, this year i tried again, same thing happens, what a waste! Why should i pay any money for non-functioning software?!

Mana Pull is ridiculous, 12x games with 7x mulligans each = 84x hand draws, FIX ASAP!!!!! Version 2022.20.1.4318.962619, only 1-2 mana every time!

This company is against cheaters yet its own systems shuffler and proven rigged match making is internal cheating. They rig games towards tubers to get free promotionals. They are absolute a trash company who doesnt care about their player base and product replacement is absolute trash. I ordered a certain secret lair with a damaged card and they sent me a lousy promo pack that you get free from events. DOWN WITH WOTC AND HASBRO BOOOOO CHEATERS

This is just ridiculous.

Tired of the matchmaker being horrendous. I'd say 25% of games are decently matched at best. Majority of the time the game is extremely one sided, usually in the opponents favor. Also has to do with the shuffler where the opponent gets god draws and has the perfect hand, curve and answers to anything I play while my draws are inconsistent or land flooded. You have to fix these issues. This game is going downhill fast and the devs and WotC don't even care.

I agree. You always seem to be "counted" after playing for a while and it won't stop

I was on the draw for my first 12 games today (Brawl) in a row! My engineering days are long behind me, but if the system is truly random then I won a jackpot with this 1 in 4,096 streak. Now I'm a lawyer, and think this qualifies as negligent (or maybe intentional) infliction of emotional distress...

back again about how this BS game is rigged with "opponent goes first". i kept track of my games for the past three months. the "differential" right now between going first or second is over 200 times. meaning , i've gone second more than 200 times than i've gone first. that means someone out there has the same "differential" in the opposite direction: going first 400 times more than going second. i can't say exactly how much an average win percentage will be when you go first, but i'd bet it is at least a 10% bump. this game is rigged by who goes first: spend money = go first more often. what else is rigged?

best of one You will be on the draw far more often depending on what your deck has in it. if it's a Simic deck with lots of fast creatures, chances are you're going second.

The issue is the same for historic, I'm at the point of having enough frustration that will make me quit the game. Whenever I build a fairly decent jank, the first match is ALWAYS the exact counter for whatever I built, this is ********.

I'm either playing against bots named after offline users or they're really lucky and believe the heart of the cards as if it was yugioh with perfect draws. What the ****?

Fix the Shuffler already.

This game is so rigged its pathetic. In 20+ years of playing MTG i have never experienced so many issues involving mana screws. I have never made it 10+ draws in with zero lands in a deck thats 50% lands. Now its a multiple times an hour thing.

WoTC should really find a way to block arena tracker. its really bringing to lite how often i go second (78% on the draw). Thats fair. Also, just look at the decks you play. The meta is supposedly all midragne aggro, yet if you play control you never see those decks. Switch to an aggro deck and all of a sudden there those decks are every game.

Stop rigging starting hands. Stop fixing games with mana ***** mechanics. Fix the non existent economy. Fix the rigged matchmaker. Literally do anything to make the game better.

right now the game and community are so bad its laughable. There is zero skill involved in this Arena. Games are won based on luck, money spent, and shuffler rigging. The amount of times you will have 4/4 of multiple cards 5 draws into the game is insane. The amount of times you will be mana starved with over half a deck of lands is insane. The fact entire decks are deleted from your play rotation based on what you play is flat out gross.

This game is nothing more than a sad cash grab. WoTC themselves admitted nothing is random. Not to rig the game, but because "truly random events do not seem random" whatever that BS means. The game is rigged. 20+ years of paper play makes it blatant. The huge amount of statistical anomalies that are experienced by huge amounts of the player base should be enough. The million game studies that have been done proved the game is rigged, theres card clumping, and mana ***** is way to common.

The UI is beautiful, but the game is far from MTG. it uses the same cards, but feels scripted. wins and losses feel predetermined. The game is less exciting and more disappointing. AVOID THIS TRASH AT ALL COSTS

This game is unbearable. Stop "smoothing" my hands. stop rigging the match maker. This game is absolute trash,

I play draft which cost 1500 gems to sign up for.
Against my better judgment I spent 20 $ again.
Everytime it's the same, but my last draft beats it all.
Every few games it's either no lands of the right color, or mana flow, 1 land after the other. Tell me what is the point of playing a game if in more than half of the games the winner is already pre determent by a broken mechanism. It's like playing slot machines except there's nothing to win here. Anyway, that last draft I had to start second EVERY SINGLE TIME. 5 games in a row I go last, costing me ATLEAST 1 or 2 of my losses. Mana ***** cost me the third. WHY would I spend more money for something that only works on the surface. It's downright disheartening. IF I had a chance to trade my 4-5 year old account back for that last 20$ I would immediately.

I just lost 15 matches in a row at the EXACT same turn count my opponent being under 5 lp and its the perfect answer/removal. Then guess what i draw for 5 turns lands lands lands such a terrible broken system but wotc doesnt give a dam about its player base. They will rig their shufflers games matches anything for money on here. Terrible app broken and nothing will be fixed. But heres whats funny they will life ban players for "cheating" but they do it and nothing is done go figure

Fix it.

The game is designed with stats so that a player on a roll starts drawing only lands in draft or yet, doesn't draw any lands by putting 17 in the starting deck. Please return me the gems i've buy in this game. I demand a refund.

I have 0% win-rate against opponents on a superior Tier than I am, with MB in Standard for many the best deck in standard.