I have been playing tabletop Magic for years with my friends, and I know exactly how variance works. However, what is happening in MTG Arena completely defies any mathematical sense of randomness.
For the past 3 months, the game has become completely unbearable to play. I have dropped 3 ranks because of a ridiculous, repetitive pattern in my opening hands. My deck has exactly 60 cards, including only 2x Vorme, 2x Maha, and 1x Destino. Yet, in almost 90% of my matches, either these exact 5 high-cost cards show up together in my opening hand without lands, or the game decides to put all 24 lands on top of my deck, and I spend 1 to 10 turns drawing absolutely nothing until I lose without being able to cast a single spell.
How is it statistically possible to consistently draw the exact same 5 specific cards out of 55 others in consecutive matches? Meanwhile, there are low-cost cards in my deck that I only see once every 20 games. Some cards seem to be "working a clock" and punch in for duty every single game in my opening hand, while others completely disappear.
I have already made countless adjustments to my deck structure, changed events, and switched from Best of One to Best of Three, but this broken distribution pattern does not change. I cannot even complete my 15 daily wins anymore because I have to lose 7 miserable matches due to completely unplayable, locked hands just to get a single win. This is not real randomness, and it is ruining the game experience for dedicated veteran players. Please look into this.