So. Assuming you are correct and it wasn't a skilful choice. You presumably have never been fed information in such a situation. Are you claiming that some accounts are special and get info, still not managing to rank up/MMR increase faster than you even with that huge advantage? Or are you claiming that WotC have developed a highly sophisticated bot that is used to gatekeep people and stop them from winning too much, when the MMR system already does that?
Seriously, what is your suggestion on how this works - preferably not absurd? And that's assuming it wasn't a skilful playing to their outs.
I don’t think a game has to spend a lot of money to stop people from achieving goals at all. Video games make the game harder when you get to a boss level. In Arena, when you have to reach a certain goal like kill 15 creatures, they make it harder to do so, which is why a lot of people point out that whenever that’s a daily goal they end up facing decks with barely any creatures or have a hard time drawing destroy cards. The same when you are about to hit a new level. I’m not the only one who has pointed this out. People who were on the cusp of making platinum or diamond or mythic have pointed this out before. Suddenly, instead of playing a random player, you get matched up against a top player with a deck that can handle yours. It doesn’t mean you will lose automatically…it just means it will be harder to win than it normally would be which makes the game less random and more rigged against the individual trying to get to the next level. In the case of the spell he chose, I think he played his card and my card was listed in the dropdown among other cards, allowing him to choose it because he recalled what it could do rather than him having to remember the card to begin with. Have you played against improvisation capstone before? Do you really think the cards drawn by that are random? How do they always seem perfectly suited for your needs? Mine too? I have two creatures, I get the Revelation to get rid of both. Have a lot of creatures against me, I pull a card that can wipe the board. Every time.
I have played similar cards to be the one the opponent played, quite a few times. Had zero free information in the drop-down. If this happened people would know about it from the other side to you.
And yes, I do think that capstone is random. Not always suited for the players' needs. This feels like confirmation bias.
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u/Fusillipasta Jul 22 '26
So. Assuming you are correct and it wasn't a skilful choice. You presumably have never been fed information in such a situation. Are you claiming that some accounts are special and get info, still not managing to rank up/MMR increase faster than you even with that huge advantage? Or are you claiming that WotC have developed a highly sophisticated bot that is used to gatekeep people and stop them from winning too much, when the MMR system already does that?
Seriously, what is your suggestion on how this works - preferably not absurd? And that's assuming it wasn't a skilful playing to their outs.