shuffler
I'm not one to complain. I enjoy the game. But the Shuffler IS broken. its extremely obvious. I have a deck that is 60 cards total. 24 of which are basic lands. for TEN CONSECUTIVE draw steps, I drew land. my opening hand had 4 lands in it and 3 "other" cards. I had the 3 "other" cards the ENTIRE game. As I watch each and every draw step give me a land. my opponent on the other hand, drew everything and anything he needed. had plenty of land and plenty of other spells. What was HIS deck size you may ask?? 250!!!!! and he drew the perfect cards for his win con. I have a standard 60 card deck with 24 lands I somehow drew 14 lands the entire game CONSECUTIVLY. . . . . . . Do the math on that probability because its WILD! matter of fact I'll tell you the math (I used Gemini) here are the results.
0.0000112% chance to draw 10 consecutive land cards. I understand that with a shuffler that is truly random even that small of a probability is still possible. But its fishy that it ONLY HAPPENS when I'm on a 4-5 game win streak. WITH THE SAME DECK. its like I get a target put on my back for winning matches. then the game decides its time for me to get steamrolled by the most basic non synergy deck known to man. legit killed by 3 1/1s from 20 down to 0. Its insane to me. And the fact that I see all these other posts regarding the same thing and has been a thing for years and years. It leads me to think that WOTC is doing 1 of 3 things.
1.)FORCING WIN RATES for people who are "down on their luck" instead of prompting them with something telling them to consider fixing their broken unorganized decks.
2.)NERFING PEOPLE ON HOT STREAKS if I win 4-5 games back to back, this is when the trouble starts. or if the previous time I played I won 4-5 matches before getting off. like I said above, it's like the game puts a target on my account prompting it to ***** me over any way it can.
3.)TRYING TO CATER TO WEAK PLAYERS if I get into a lobby *which is VERY common) where their deck size is 250 cards. AND they get the perfect win conditions every time. that tells me that they probably lost the last 10 matches and the game is trying to keep them interested in the ARENA game so they throw them a bone here and there. which is honestly way way worse then anything above. If you have a bad deck, the game should be trying to teach them a very important aspect of Magic....DECK....BUILDING. prompt them with something, anything that makes them think that maybe, Juuuuust maybe, their decks are smellier then a gas station bathroom in the projects.
All in all, like I said at the top. This is a fun game. I enjoy experimenting with different out of the comfort zone deck builds. But I cannot do that, if the game is turned against me. I just cant. I've taken months long breaks for just this reason and honestly I'm very close to doing that again. I don't want to, Im not threating my loyalty to the game or anything. I'm just tired of being steamrolled by people with inferior decks souly because I won the last 4-5 games. It's a turn off for sure.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE either give an update as to why its this way, Or fix the shuffler. You're killing magic for so many loyal gamers.