Random encounter/top deck bug
So I am a brewer in best of one standard on my android, I play a random encounter gruul deck right now. I wasn't sure what happened the first time I came across this problem but it just happened again. I run surveil lands to manipulate my top deck for random encounter. I got to my turn, I drop my surveil land, overlord of the hauntwoods on top so I keep it there. I then cast my random encounter and among the 4 cards milled the overlord wasn't there. I always suspected that this was how card draw works in arena (I honestly think it doesn't work very well, the RNG is not good) but this is a massive design flaw. I just lost my second game in ranked because of this bug. I also am one to run more land ramp than the meta typically calls for, and I've noticed that even when I pull almost all of the lands out of my deck(which should give me almost guaranteed non-land draws) the top-deck rng is still just as likely to feed me a land off the top. Feel free to contact me to pick my brain about this, I play alot of arena both constructed and limited and would love to contribute to making the draw rng make more sense.
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Anaxagoras#48203
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As of 10/18/2025: This still is occurring, any surveil or knowing or showing your top card of your deck, you will not get any of those cards once you play random encounter. I hope it's not to make it truly random as you may know your next two cards, so that's not random right? I have lost games, where I though my Terror of the Peaks would come out with random encounter, only to get randomly lands... I play standard rank, and as a new player only have this deck and a landfall deck that hasn't been doing well, so this season has been rough trying to rank up. Thanks for looking into this bug and fixing it or just letting us know if random encounter will only be the random next 4 cards that you don't know of..,