Matchmaking is really fun
I'm playing the new artifact deck that has the "Simulacrum Synthesizer" card in diamond. Obviously a deck full of artifacts with which many players reach mythic easily in record time because it is an extremely good deck currently.
I protect these artifacts from cards like "farewell or Brotherhood's End" with counters although it is not always possible.
Curiously, they only match me against cards like "Karn's Sylex" well into the curve to ***** me and clearly not go up in the ranking since I have no response from artifacts on the sideboard. The algorithm knows how to harm me, it matches me against people who have cards that are perfect answers against your deck even though you know that they are completely out of use and practically no one plays them, in fact, I hadn't seen that card for 8 months, what a coincidence.
I have a human deck that counters explorer's vampire rakdos quite a bit. Guess what, the algorithm only matches me 1/22 games against these, another coincidence.
I switch to the typical Azorius control which doesn't go well against this deck and guess what, it's all vampire rakdos.
So tier 1 decks are simply programmed to see fewer counters, which maintains that tier 1 status, otherwise they wouldn't sell as many wilcards. Which shows that it's all a lie and that if you are an average player and you make a creative deck that is good against the meta, you are not going to see that meta. Which shows how corrupt this system is.
Don't worry, this doesn't happen to certain YouTubers, influential players or whales. They are never put against cards that counter them, never against good players, it is as if they continually have low mmr and reach mythic without trying (which is strange because they always rise to mythic but face players who make horrible mistakes. as if their mmr was always low), their opponents never give them well-curved cards that bother them, their opponents never draw well, their opponents never barely interact against their plan, etc.
It feels like these people are matched against people who work in woc and let themselves win or new players or with horrendous rng. Good business, since they give them publicity.
You're familiar with seeing YouTubers who make decks with less mana than adequate but never get stuck on lands... but they will still win and put up to the fourth land in every game, carrying 23 lands as if nothing had happened, while the rest of the average players You have to give thanks if you put in the third earth, as if you didn't notice it.
They try to make us believe that the competition is not adulterated, but it is not credible. Meanwhile, average players have to be content with a ****** algorithm that never changes even though people have been complaining for years.

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Maestro#11373 commented
****** rigged game, its rng is garbage, I manaflood or get stuck very often in its quick drafts.
Of course, from platinum onwards the game is even more garbage and your rng is worse, the good rng is kept by the whales unless you want to put 234234 hours into it to satisfy them, then they let you go up. -
jus2bad#80621 commented
100%. True! Happens to me regularly! Out of the blue, the other player just happens to have the one card they need. Many, many examples! Btw the shuffler is completely broken! Let me shuffle my own deck, please!!!