Matchmaking

[Fielhoor]

Just wandering if the matchmaking is based on a system because I am thrown against experienced players that just seem to have every single trick up the sleeve, normally by turn 6/7 its GG.

I've only been playing for a few days now a friend got me into it but just very curious regarding MM

[GarbageCollector]

Are you playing ranked or unranked?

"Ranks" in this game are fake all the way up until mythic so there's no guarantee the bronze player you're up against isn't some 25 year veteran with 4x of every card on arena. Standard is also insanely powerful right now (and only set to get even stronger) so games are very fast if you have the best cards. It's not a very welcoming environment for new players, sadly.

If you're playing unranked, I think there is a matchmaker that actually tries to pair you up with an opponent that will give you a good game but I don't know what it looks at to decide that so maybe someone else can help.

[Fielhoor]

I'm playing ranked at the minute which would explain why I am getting thrashed left and right if that is the case, being quite knew I jumped onto google and thought oh i've got some wild cards i'll build a deck to play ranked with so I built a mono red deck but 16 of the cards aren't in rotation so that deck is essentially useless so I wasted my wild cards for a deck I cant use in rank lol.

Thanks for the information though, appreciate it, I'll just stick it out and hopefully get some wins to bolster up my gold / diamonds to get some more packs and cards.

[GarbageCollector]

Red is definitely the way to go if you want power on a budget. Best of luck.

[Minmataro]

Originally posted by Fielhoor:

I'm playing ranked at the minute which would explain why I am getting thrashed left and right if that is the case, being quite knew I jumped onto google and thought oh i've got some wild cards i'll build a deck to play ranked with so I built a mono red deck but 16 of the cards aren't in rotation so that deck is essentially useless so I wasted my wild cards for a deck I cant use in rank lol.

Thanks for the information though, appreciate it, I'll just stick it out and hopefully get some wins to bolster up my gold / diamonds to get some more packs and cards.

Even new players understand what to net deck. doesn't take much money to craft 1-2 meta decks and rank to plat.

[Fielhoor]

Originally posted by Minmataro:

Originally posted by Fielhoor:

I'm playing ranked at the minute which would explain why I am getting thrashed left and right if that is the case, being quite knew I jumped onto google and thought oh i've got some wild cards i'll build a deck to play ranked with so I built a mono red deck but 16 of the cards aren't in rotation so that deck is essentially useless so I wasted my wild cards for a deck I cant use in rank lol.

Thanks for the information though, appreciate it, I'll just stick it out and hopefully get some wins to bolster up my gold / diamonds to get some more packs and cards.

Even new players understand what to net deck. doesn't take much money to craft 1-2 meta decks and rank to plat.

I'm sorry but have to disagree with you on that one, the deck building aspect is pretty daunting for a new player to TGC's in general and the fact you've got X amount of expansions to choose from and as stated previously I wasted a lot of my wild cards building a deck that I thought I would like but im unable to play 16 of that cards which now leaves me confused on what to replace them with because I dont have a clue with what I'm doing and ranked is pretty dam ruthless with the amount of stank I have encountered so far.

[Winter Wolf]

Can you play with those cards in Alchemy? Try that. If not try Explorer. If not that Try Historic.

[c Z p]

Game needs a lot of patience cause matchmaker and shuffler are rigged af, okay?
They simply can't replicate real life luck in decks, with all its chaotic turns.

Game was possibly designed by ppl who hate watching tight-structured meta decks fail to rogue decks. Thing is... this stuff happens irl - a lot. Cause it might be a rogue deck, but it's filled with rares. And not just rares... but the right rares too.
Turn draws of specific 'meta' decks are fixed, just watch.

Game is rigged and a sham when it comes to ranks, keep trying it though.

Oh and if you thought that members with orange in their names are WotC employees-make sure to say hello!- forget it. There's too many of them even without any orange in their bully-ass names. How amusing to pretend this is even slightly competitive.
Κάτι losers τρόμπες...

[Thorbalt]

Originally posted by GarbageCollector:

Are you playing ranked or unranked?

"Ranks" in this game are fake all the way up until mythic so there's no guarantee the bronze player you're up against isn't some 25 year veteran with 4x of every card on arena. Standard is also insanely powerful right now (and only set to get even stronger) so games are very fast if you have the best cards. It's not a very welcoming environment for new players, sadly.

If you're playing unranked, I think there is a matchmaker that actually tries to pair you up with an opponent that will give you a good game but I don't know what it looks at to decide that so maybe someone else can help.

Unranked depends on the playstyle I think. Brawl feels like it has a secret list of different commander pools (because god ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forbid any of the trash run into hard counters), but the reality of the entire situation is this


You will never know and the devs have made it beyond clear they believe suicide is better than caring about the player experience in any way so the only answer they would ever give you is to GFY

[Ezra]

Originally posted by Fielhoor:

Originally posted by Minmataro:

Even new players understand what to net deck. doesn't take much money to craft 1-2 meta decks and rank to plat.

I'm sorry but have to disagree with you on that one, the deck building aspect is pretty daunting for a new player to TGC's in general and the fact you've got X amount of expansions to choose from and as stated previously I wasted a lot of my wild cards building a deck that I thought I would like but im unable to play 16 of that cards which now leaves me confused on what to replace them with because I dont have a clue with what I'm doing and ranked is pretty dam ruthless with the amount of stank I have encountered so far.

Magic the Gathering is approaching nearly 100 expansions, So I can see how daunting that may be to a new player. You might want to watch some guides to the various constructed formats. Standard format variants are alright, But you may want to look into Historic and Timeless on MTG : Arena, They draw from all sets and use a banned list in Historic and a Limited List in Timeless their arena's version of Legacy and Vintage from Paper magic events and MTG:O events. Assembling 1-3 eternal decks would probably be the best use of wild cards. As the cards in those decks do eventually change but for the most part you do not have to keep up with every single set release and reformat or construct a whole deck each new season like with Standard. Though the "power level" Is quite a bit higher Turn 1-2 wins are possible and most games end between 4-6. Their are match ups that go on longer though.

[Snoot Boops]

mono white or mono red would be the way to go if you're new to the game. those colors and deck style usually cater to newer players until you learn how the cards work and how the game works. but you'll only get so far with them before they run out of steam and you get smashed almost every game again. you can always expand from there.

[Fielhoor]

Originally posted by ＯＮＹＸ:

mono white or mono red would be the way to go if you're new to the game. those colors and deck style usually cater to newer players until you learn how the cards work and how the game works. but you'll only get so far with them before they run out of steam and you get smashed almost every game again. you can always expand from there.

I've built a mono red deck and a boro aggro deck and currently building an Auzurian soldiers deck as well to mess about, I figured out what the reason was I couldn't play (because i'm a noob) I was still on ranked spark matches which was obviously why I couldn't play my custom decks haha.

Thanks for the info tho, its appreciated getting into the online game and the actual card version of the game its pretty good once you get into the swing of things.