Suggestion: Ranking System and/or Indication for Different Skill Levels
This is coming from a completely new mtg player (started last week of May 2025), and I would like suggestion some way to match players based on skill/comfort level. I understand Starter Deck and Jump In is meant to even the playing field between new players and veterans, but it's still very obvious that it doesn't help. The Suggestion is this: players on Arena choose a level, for example Novice/Beginner, Intermediate, or Veteran, then create a settings for matches that you can choose to play with others of the same skill or all skill levels or two of them etc. There are obviously veteran players tacking advantage of Jump In/Starter Decks to grind or other reason, and being matched with them makes MTG Arena a miserable experience that it becomes a hostile and unfriendly experience with taunting through the emotes or "roping" or destroy every card while building an unnecessary wall of combos that is so large that it causes severe lagging. The skill level choices will allow players who are into a casual game or entirely f2p or brand new enjoy themselves without being hounded by aggro players. Please consider setting up some kind of system to make MTG Arena more enjoyable.
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HyruleHobbit#55199
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I agree! I’m not new to MTG but I am a low skilled player since I haven’t played much overall. I just started Arena again and noticed that I’m being matched with people well over my skill level.
They supposedly do this to ensure that people don’t have to wait a long time to get a match. I understand that, however they could set a time limit before nagging with a higher level person. For example, if it’s been 2 minutes, then match with someone a little higher. I don’t like having to play against someone who is much more advanced in how they strategize their gameplay.