The problem is that Wizards REFUSES to ban certain cards that make the game unplayable for the rest of us. These idiots go and build ALL RARE and LEGENDARY decks and we can not even complete our dailies because they purposely prevent us from doing so by playing even after they have completed their dailies in the play only que ... not the ranked ... the play que where they will get nothing except to stop the rest of us . You people at wizards are complete and utter moronic idiots

I have no idea why I play this ******* game anymore. All its doing is making me want to put my fist through my screen.

If I could ask a favor, but could I please be allowed to win a ******* game once in a while instead of constantly being matched against decks that seem designed to literally **** me **********?

10 loses in a row, fk this game

This game is getting more frustrating all the time, I have to wait a minute and then am paired against a deck specifically designed to counter mine... where is the random game play? We should not have algorithms for non ranked play, this is a game where in real life you sit down with a random person and a random deck, this needs to be addressed, or I quit!

This is so annoying. I don't know what is wrong with simply making it a coin flip, like it is supposed to be.

I had the only three mana that were in my starting hand, and didn't receive any more mana during my match. I have read that people say the algorithm makes it entirely random at all times I call B.S. on that. I am getting "Mana Draughts" and "Mana Floods" on a constant basis costing me matches on Ranked constantly. Another played posted their log showing they too didn't receive any additional mana during their match and had someone calculate the odds giving them a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance of happening and yet people were defending these odds. Why? Did you know the odds of you drowning in a bath tub are 685,000 to 1? There are higher odds of drowning in a f-ing tub than drawing no mana! Wow....

Check out my log and see for yourself.

Please adjust the matchmaking process for ranked games to be truly random.
It's common consensus that the matchmaking should be random for ranked games, but experience and player feedack seems to show otherwise.
I can understand the rigged matchmaking for the Play queue (which I dislike as well), but for ranked it just seems aweful and obviously rigged at times to be mirror matches or at least similar decks. One cannot adjust to a meta, if the experienced meta doesn't reflect the true meta.
As soon as I craft a deck to adjust for the decks I face, the following decks I'm facing are completly different to the point where adjusting your deck becomes useless.

This **** right here is SO aggravating. I spend a good deal of time building a deck, then only get matched against decks that are the EXACT counter to that deck. If I play mono blue, I only see red aggro. If I play green creature, I only see black deathtouch... STOP THIS. This takes any joy of the game out, tears it up, ****** on it, then lights it on fire. Absolute trash matching system.

Check my log, at least 8 in a row on the draw for me, too.

I have the same issue. I tracked for a week and I'm on the draw in 71 of the last 100 matches. When being on the play in Bo1 is a 55%+ win rate it's no wonder I can't advance rank this month.

Not even close to random. 15 or so in a row. Sitting here laughing with friends at Oppent goes first over and over and over again

https://feedback.wizards.com/forums/918667-mtg-arena-bugs/suggestions/40331641-shuffler-issue

And still, wizard's does not respond or heed customer feedback. Matching algorithm still a terrible way to test decks as they put you up against a predetermined archetype based on your deck. Very upsetting.

I've just played 15 matches of which i was matched against mono-red 13 times. My deck can't handle mono red so that's an instant 13 losses. However if I were to build a deck that counters mono-red I get matched against entirely different teams. So it's a lose no matter what. In order to win my 15 daily matches I have to play ATLEAST 75 matches. Why should I have to spend my ENTIRE day playing magic if I would want to complete my daily rewards? Never in my 30 years of gaming have I seen a matchmaking system as broken as in Magic Arena. If you want me to spend more money on your game, this is absolutely blocking you from getting any

Just to test a theory. I played a set of control decks, and faced nothing but fast agro or other control decks. So I switched to midrange and saw nothing but control, so I switch to agro creature and only face other agro creature decks or creature removal. There is nothing about matchmaking that is random.

This has been going on for a long time in BO1 standard. Today, in the past ten games, my opponent went first 100% of the time. Do you think it's fun to lose three games in a row and to see on your screen, yet again, "Opponent goes first."? Here's what it looks like, I'll give you some screenshots. Is there a chance you could make the user experience more balanced? Some kind of failsafe--after three losses, match the user in such a way that they can go first. *&$^ it would be a ^$&% improvement if we saw that after five losses. Instead, we just keep playing as if it's impossible for the matchmaker to match us in such a way as to give us closer to 50% go-first gameplay. I swear this game is stacking everything it can against me.

You really need to do something about your matchmaking. I don't know if it's ignoring deck win rates, or if it's ignoring deck contents or if it doesn't care that certain decks are in the Top 8 list.

If you keep placing starter decks with a few funky cards against Top 8 control decks people will just leave the game. The only reason I'm still playing is because of the Covid lockdown.

Fix it!

Looks like today's patch addressed this issue.

Goodbye coins, though xD

I was caught by this issue too. I'm bronze and my opponent war mythic #1129,
I was overwhelmed by his/her experience and deck building.

What is wrong with matchmaking in Premiere? I started at Bronze one and my first three opponents were Mythic #201, Diamond, and high gold.

Is matchmaking going purely by Win/Loss, or is it just broken?