Playing Standard ranked Bo1 seems to automatically be set to draw your deck, even a 74 card (28 lands) deck, in the most inconsistent and inconvenient of ways.

They say keeping it at 60 and using 4 copies of cards ups the chances of drawing the deck so that it’s actually playable and almost predictable. Never once, not even with the free decks they provide. How can you not draw a land in 7 turns out of a 60 card deck with 30 lands in it? Nuts. Don’t get me wrong, there is no actual perfect and unbeatable deck, but the algorithm on draw in these ranked modes needs to be more consistent.

Matchmaking is ok in that I rarely see the same player within a day of Standard ranked Bo1 let alone a week sometimes! That’s very nice! Buuuuuuuut…when you are on a win streak in Standard ranked Bo1 at say 4 or 5 in a row, the next opponent is just out of this world equipped and draws in an oppressive and uncanny way while you get land &@$#&$ or draw like someone is mixing your deck while you play, and not in a good way.

There are too many cards that put just incredibly insane X counters on creatures that can easily get into the tens of thousands?!?! Even more. Hard to see how that can be a legit card in Standard ranked Bo1. Sure can be fun, but maybe some of these should be removed from ranked play?

I have also never spent any $ on this game, achieved everything just grinding. This game is fantastic for that, you do not need to p2p, necessarily, but obviously that gives one an edge. But the fact that you don’t get stuck in this p2p system like so many other games is just awesome.