Arena Shuffler SO BAD It Made Jesus Cry 

I have taken several multi-month "rage quit" breaks because of the BS myself. Just got back from a 5 month hiatus.

yup, if you start with 4 or more lands you draw nothing but lands, but if you start with 1 land you dont draw any, same goes with other cards, its very anti-logical and just plain stupid, I really wonder wtf they are doing, a functional shuffler in 2024 shouldnt be that hard

@@FunkMabassUp I played a 150 card OP last night, they top decked two of the same card back to back and then two of another card back to back. Every update the shuffler gets worse.

Well said! I always say on my streams that best case scenario is it is simply horrible coding. One of my favorite lines is "if your five year old child shuffled a deck of cards like this you wouldn't let them do it again."

@@dameongeppetto I just dont see what it would gain them if they rigged it on purpose? pissing people off doesnt earn money, I think its lazy badly coded, same with the fact that they dont even care too add functions like spectate a friend to the game, they are lazy and the game is just a moneymaker with MINIMAL effort too keep it running. Also reflects how poorly optimized the game is for mobile, it eats alot of battery and performs quite shitty for being just a card game with no advanced gaming mechanics

@@FunkMabassUp they are rigging the matchmaking not the shuffler. The shuffler is horrible code, yes you are correct. Who goes first and who you get matched against is where they are putting their thumb on the scale to affect outcomes. Why? Money. If people win too much they don't spend money. If people lose too much they quit the game and stop spending money. They walk a fine line of keeping you angry enough to buy that one card which will make your deck work, but not pushing you over the edge. Think about this: you ever have one of those horrid losing streaks where you are questioning why you even play the game and then suddenly you are matched against a budget jank deck that you beat despite the shuffler not drawing you well? That is the matchmaker helping you stay playing the game (so they can get some money from you or they will beat you down with losses due to bad matchups again).

@@dameongeppetto agree, thats true, I did play on high rank and was top 100 a few times in mythic, still the games felt very little based on skill, more about who went first or who didnt manascrew, most games feel one sided and out of the players control, almost like you are a spectator too your own game, the "on the play advantage" is one of the biggest flaws of mtg in my book

Satan loves you.

Haha. Gotta love the "variance" in the system.