Reporting Possible Cheater
At about 9:40am CST on May 11th (Timing is near end of my match when I checked time), I had encountered suspicious odds vs an opponent named "bakalla", and I thought I should push this one over in case they were using a subtle cheat to force my topdeck to be only forests for draw after draw after draw in a brawl match.
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I had already thinned my deck to about 10 lands remaining playing a landfall deck, but I could not draw any cards despite this, for soooo many turns straight while above 55 cards still remained in the deck. I already had 27 of my lands present among the battlefield, graveyard, and exile thanks to scapeshift, titania, crucible + fetches, and more.
I lasted a good while vs the opponent bc of how fast I scaled ahead of him, and him not having a boardwipe for what felt like 10 turns of me not doing anything but defending as he stole my creatures one by one. till I had nothing left.
Maybe I was just extremely unlucky, but the odds are just so abysmally low here that I think it requires a check. This is probably about similar odds to rolling a 1 on a 6-sided die every roll for 15 consecutive rolls straight. Not impossible, but suspicious as heck, and if they're rigging draws, they should not be here.
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DAC169#34537 commented
Unfortunately, Arena's shuffler sucks and is very notorious for long stretches of either no lands or just lands, so it's most likely just the shuffler screwing you over in this case.