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    Helten#74024 commented  · 

    Historic Brawl queue matchmaking based on commander strength not working:

    Since the latest update (2023.26.40.4595.1008173) that introduced the LOTR Pre-order bundles into the shop, the matchmaking in the Historic Brawl queue has been all messed up.

    It seems like the algorithm that segments the strong commanders and the weaker ones from playing vs each other is disabled.

    I only play Historic Brawl so it was something I noticed right away after the patch went live. I was now facing commanders I have not faced for over a year since I try and play mostly fun commanders that aren't that powerful but now I was vs top tier commanders that I know I should not be facing up against.

    I have attached screenshots of commanders I know for a fact should not be matching up against each other if the "Power queue" and "deck strength" algorithms were working as intended.
    When I was playing the old version of Winota she would only go up against the "Power queue" commanders because she was (rightfully so) a "Power Queue" commander herself. Then she got completely changed (nerfed) and was put into the normal commander queue and has been there ever since up until this latest patch. Now I face the old "Power Queue" commanders sometimes and I know this is not supposed to be happening.

    These super powerful commanders are supposed to only be facing up against other super powerful commanders. I then tested with my own Raffine deck that I know should also be in the "Power Queue" but Raffine now faces up against commanders that are clearly not as powerful and should not face up against this commander.

    The rest of the screenshots are also from commander matches that should not be happening that I'm 100% certain of since I know these are the top tier of the "Power Queue" commanders. The rest of the middle tier commanders are also matching up against all sorts of commanders that they should not be matching up against. It's all just a mess right now. The system is clearly not looking at either the strength of the commander or the overall power of the deck.

    I want to be clear: This is happening in all of the queues. Top tier, upper-mid tier, mid and lower tier. I am only posting screenshots and giving examples of the highest top tier commanders because those I am 100% sure of. But it's happening in all of the queues. It's a mess right now. It just seems like everybody is facing up against everybody, as if the system wasn't in place at all to segment the decks and commanders into different tiers.

    Please look into this. It's very frustrating and not in the spirit of this supposed fun format. I looked at announcements and patch notes and nothing was mentioned of the disabling of these matchmaking algorithms so I'm making this bug report as it's clearly not intended.

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