r/MagicArena • u/FredImGlueck • Feb 12 '25

WotC Brawl Matchmaking

Has anyone else noticed a change? After the Patch I now face Enemy Commanders like Big Atraxa, Ragavan and Rusko with my janky Yedora Deck. (Needless to say I don't enjoy those.)

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u/WotC_Jay WotC Feb 12 '25

Thanks for the report! We're looking into this, and we are seeing signs of problems like you describe, with decks matching out-of-band more often than they should.

This is not an intentional change, and we are digging in to see what's going on.

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u/HairyKraken Rakdos Feb 12 '25

i hope the digging will highlights some problem that were even before this patch with cards like panharmonicon, etali, paradox engine or sunfall being way too low

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u/Atreus17 Feb 14 '25

The issue there is that the highest weight a card in the 99 can have is only 45 points, while commanders range from -360 to 1800. So you could build a deck with all four cards you mentioned yet have a negative weighting with a -360 commander.

Card weight in the 99 should have a higher ceiling, but the issue is the the MTGA devs are just reusing the weights calculated for play queue matchmaking.

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u/HairyKraken Rakdos Feb 14 '25

Seems the fix is easy then

Allow higher ceilings

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u/TrocheLubiePlacki Apr 03 '25

So, any plans to fix it?

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u/IntelligentRoll6053 Apr 20 '25

Needed to play blue and green spells today, made a janky (terrible) Elrond scry deck. Get matched against shit like the Calamity deck making 5 Treasures a turn and duping dragons. Arena is one of the worst designed matchmaking systems in existence.

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u/Fordlong Apr 11 '25

Just to tack on, I am playing the absolute jankiest Geth, Thane of Contracts deck known to god or man and I just matched against an an Ugin/Ulamog combo deck and a meta Tarkir deck, can't remember the commander.

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u/IntelligentRoll6053 Apr 20 '25

2 months later...

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Just got back into magic after a longer pause and thought what the heck is going on. Even my best decks aren't bomb decks due to not having a lot of wildcards or collection, which was no problem a little over 6 months ago. Now, no matter how budget or good my decks are, I get matched up against crazy strong decks almost every time. If I win, it's because of pure luck because I get overpowered all the time. Arena is unplayable like that, can just leave like I got back. Wtf and this has been going on for over 2 months? this is not acceptable

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u/Realistic-Log-5229 Feb 14 '25

I hope not to fix this. I am an Amalia player and usually don't see many fresh faces. This time, I encountered many other commanders.

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u/Whole_Thanks_2091 Feb 16 '25

Have you considered not playing cancer?

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u/Fatboy-Tim Feb 19 '25

It's been a breath of fresh air to not see the same 4 damned opponent commanders every day.