Agree to disagree then. There are enough people complaining about this and the land algorithm for me to suspect there is something going on. I have no idea how it works or how it's done, but it happens too often for it to just be a coincidence in my opinion.
"The plural of anecdote is not data" as the saying goes. Selection bias means that people tend to remember when things go wrong more than when nothing out of the ordinary happens. If you really think there's something fishy going on use a tracker like untapped.gg and look at your actual stats.
Yes of course you are supposed to believe it is bad luck, what else? A conspiracy theory?
Being able automatically categorise decks like you're suggesting would actually be very impressive. But they aren't doing that, you're imagining things.
I don't know what it is. But it happens far too often and far too consistently for me to just wave it away entirely as bad luck. If there is no deck based matchmaking in the game than there is absolutely no reason why I should see a sudden shift as consistently as I do the moment I change decks. Something is going on. I don't know what it is or how it works but it happens too much for it to be coincidence in my opinion. And it's not just me that has this problem there are threads going back to the beta on Reddit and elsewhere about this exact thing happening to other people.
Cool so all of my decks are terrible then except my removal bleed deck lol
I usually don't feel too tilted from mill decks because I feel like it usually winds up being my own fault for not being aggressive enough or dilly dallying. Unless it's just a deck that got out early drowned secrets and just all counters from there.
For me it's my ashiok nightmare muse brawl deck. Specifically when I spend most of the game just sending stuff back to their hand only for them to finally resolve a big thing and then I drop agent of treachery. I get it it's awful. I specifically don't put thassa or any kind of recursion like that into the deck cuz fuck people who thassa+agent of treachery. It goes from guilt pleasure to just like feeling like a lazy way to ruin a fun back and forth game.
Did a primarily Kiora/Lotus Field simic ramp deck with Chance for Glory thrown in for extra turns. I'd then use Repudiate or Tales End in full control mode on the end step to counter the "lose the game" effect. It actually worked well enough for me in bo1! Sometimes I'd end up with 2 or 3 extra turns in a row which was hard for the opponent to deal with.
Nice! Simic is the bane of my existence. I always seem to lose against it.
Niv is probably equally as unfun to play against, but at least is pretty easy to beat as they can't as easily get around 5 different color mana costs. Golos being colorless, etb being free ramp so he comes back every turn, and if he's left out just gets free greedy spells every turn is just game over once he's out. Niv can get cast and fill their hand, but they still can only cast usually 1 spell a turn, and it's much less likely to cast him on curve.
Hard to say without knowing your deck and the decks you faced. If they're not high rank decks, then your deck must not be very good (or not meta-good at least), otherwise it's just a question or bad luck/RNG/misplays. There's no other explaination
I think your entire disposition towards the game seems really hostile and counterproductive right now. Maybe it has to do with making it to diamond so easily last season and you're just expecting the same.
My disposition is hostile because literally nothing I do seems to get me anywhere despite only being in Gold 4. I use my old decks? I get destroyed. I use new decks? I get destroyed. I copy decks from YouTube? I get destroyed. I made the Golgari deck because grinding with my older decks isn't working. And the Golgari deck was working great until the game caught up to what I was doing. And I know I can see their ranks. What I'm saying is I am pretty sure most of the people I am playing are Platinum level players working their way through gold instead of playing actual gold ranked players. Which is pretty frustrating as it makes for a really inconsistent experience and makes it halfway impossible to tell how good the current deck I am using is.
And i get that which is why I set aside most of my older decks these past few days and have been trying out newer ones. My frustration is that no matter what I use I seem to hit a wall with them after a time. The Golgari deck I made for example got me all the way to nearly Gold 2 from the bottom of gold 4 in one go. No losses. And now I can't seem to buy a win with the deck. Same goes for my mono black sacrifice, mono red aggro, white black sacrifice, and my mono blue mill deck. I will gain some ground by winning 3 or 4 matches and then get absolutely picked apart 10 times in a row.
Unfortunately this goes for almost every ranked system in 2020. And seasons last only a month in Arena so a lot of people do spend the whole season just getting to their correct rank.
I didn't think of that. That is probably what's going on then. It's just abunch of play players trying to move up.
I mean, draft events are hotha. Good way to learn and also build your collection of cards. You get to keep the cards you draft plus you win packs for entering. It's probably the best use of your coins.
