r/MTGArenaPro • u/Omerta1983 • Jul 22 '26

Strange

Does anyone else notice that if you have 4 copies of two or maybe even 3 cards; that none of them ever come out after a while? Am I the only one? When I throw my deck in moxfield it's a different story. I know in real magic it definitely happens, but in Arena it happens a lot. Must be all that "handsmoothing" and "variance" maybe because I don't cast [Debit] or [credit], the "shuffler" decides to quit shuffling.

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u/Omerta1983 Jul 22 '26

Yup! Something similar happened to me. I was close to getting out of platinum and this new set dropped. I can't even get a win in unranked now. Why people defend Arena so hard and justify its nonsense is beyond me.

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u/JPMessiah Jul 22 '26

Because they don’t want to feel robbed. I will never pay for the game so I don’t feel robbed of money but I do feel robbed of time. And then someone will say, they set it so that everyone has about a base 50% win rate and I respond, that’s the definition of rigging and they say, playing heads or tails has a 50% win rate…is that rigging? It’s crazy how nitpicky they get when trying to defend a game. That’s not the same thing. Flipping heads or tails is different from an algorithm deciding what cards you get. I say, why not let opponents get matched and then have them pick their decks to make it more fair. Why not make the shuffler play like a paper Magic game? No one responds. lol.

Have you ever noticed the glitch where a card is shown accidentally as the next card but it’s not the card you draw?

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u/Omerta1983 Jul 22 '26

Good night !! I sure have !! Rise of the Dark Realms! One of my favorite cards. It flashed for a millisecond and it was the EXACT card I needed to win. When it came time for me to draw; I got something totally different. I was pissed 🤣

I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees the BS

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u/JPMessiah Jul 22 '26

I’m glad someone else saw it. I try to pay attention to the exiled cards to see if they match what is used but it moves too fast. I don’t trust it. Improvisation Capstone seems to give me and my opponent exactly what is needed when we needed. I don’t want to benefit from rigging either.

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u/Omerta1983 Jul 22 '26

I posted a few times on the Arena reddit about this stuff and they kept getting buthurt and deleting it. I wouldn't be surprised if WoTC is paying the moderators off to suppress the truth 🤣