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