Brawl and Historic Brawl are broken and noone pays attention
Historic Brawl and Brawl is supposedly a fun format that you get to play your retired cards, but also find home for all this otherwise junk cards that you open in boosters. This is not true, however. Due to the nature of 1v1, rather than multiplayer, everyone plays the most efficient and not the cards "to experiment". Commanders (like Kinnan, Niv-Mizzet) are incredibly OP. The algorithm cares for the commander and not the deck built. Summary, there is no room for casual games, as everyone plays hyper-efficient cards. Getting thoughtseized or duressed turn 1 is bad in constructed, imagine how much worse this becomes in a singleton format. Kinnan decks ramp for 8-10 mana by turn 3-4. Fix the mode - it is no longer fun and I am getting this feedback from pretty much my whole local community.
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Sindrelari#41376 commented
Agreed. The fact they keep allowing garbage alchemy cards in, the fact that I can't play janky fun casual games because every opponent commander is either Esika, Golos, Jodah, or Nicol Bolas. Terrible format that wizards doesn't care because someone will still spend money on overpowered garbage cards. It should have been the best format and yet wizards managed to find a way to ***** it up. Just like everything else including balancing the game. I would play it more if they actually balanced commanders and stopped releasing broken things, or if they ACTUALLY seperated commanders into tiers. However they won't so I think it's arrivederci to Arena and I'll go back to Hearthstone or even Master Duel over this garbage game.
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Boxes_O_Moxes#65270 commented
It's soo bad, Being able to use all the planeswalkers as commanders (for example Liliana of the Veil) AND using all the arena specific cards that are totally busted are making brawl a really un-fun format. I refuse to play with those types of cards or decks. It's toxic. Of course hasbro sits back with their thumb where the sun doesn't shine and could care less how trashy the format it. Either way, Arena is rigged, you almost always see your opponent with a wash away in their hand, or you are paired against the mirror or every deck that yours sucks against. Not to mention that you play all of those decks over and over again. There is no randomization to pairings. I've literally never been paired against a jank deck. You know the ones that you can tell when your opponent hasn't been playing that long and can't really build a deck. It's allways top-tier decks that I'm paired against. Always my worst matchups. I don't spend money on Arena at all so that's obviously why. When you buy into the game it becomes more in your favor. Arena is trash.
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BluezamX#92585 commented
A year later and it's more true than ever. Every Black deck has 4 very good removal spells, every White deck has broken creatures, and then you have Jodah and Toxrill mixed in, and THEN you have Cityscape Leveler and Portal to Phyrexia. There's been 0 room for jank decks ever since BRO, and I can't see that improving with New New Phyrexia.
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Pastapockets#87184 commented
The arena team can barely add cosmetics to Arena without breaking the game entirely due to their incompetence. Can you imagine the disaster to follow if they attempted a true multiplayer format? Arena devs are too inept.