Turn off Hand Smoothing and Get Rid of the Loser Queue
Turn of Hand Smoothing and the Loser Queue.
I'm not sure how many people need to post these complaints before you actually acknowledge or address the problem.
Hand Smoothing is awful. I tracked 50 games over the course of a week. Each of these games were played in either dual or tri colored deck. 40 of these games had statistically improbably openings hands. Each deck ran between 23 and 25 lands.
In 23 games, opening hand had between 3-4 lands. Each of these lands were the same land. Ex. All 4 lands were Raffine's Towers. This happened CONSTANTLY. Even in my dual color decks, I would open with 3-4 lands, and each would be the same land...typically basics, and only of one color.
Another 17 games opened with only 1 land, 6 of those had only one land, again, on mulligan.
My concern is, why does the autoshuffler tend toward these two polls. Turn it off. I'd rather have the normal odds of having a functioning mana base in my hand, than the 'shaped' hands which doesn't seem to recognize the difference between functional and unfunctional mana bases. Give us the option to turn it off. I don't care if I play against people who use it, given how broken it is.
Loser Queue
Just stop. You know it exists. We know it exists. Make the game equitable so that any player has an equitable chance of winning. Its not even subtle anymore. Stop punishing players who are better than others that just want to play and not be screwed over by your queues.
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YoshiKyon#21505 commented
Searching 'hand smoothing' on here makes it clear this is a pretty big problem, and like.. I have no doubt a lot of that gets dismissed as "people will find something to complain about" but when people are posting specific testing numbers to back it up, it's clearly completely broken.
I'd love to be drafting right about now, but I refuse to put money into MTGA in its current state. I quit MtG entirely for about 5 years because of War of the Spark + MTGA, and it's wild that coming back to the game now, nothing's improved and I should just stick to paper play or MTGO. MTGA isn't MtG at this point, it's just a fun meme spin-off.
Thankfully, the new players I've talked to know not to bother with Arena. Hearing nothing but complaints from the player-base will do that, though.