It feels like your opponents often have the perfect counter for literally everything youre doing and it's not like they just counter spells. They literally always have the perfect janky specific counter cards to completely disable me.
I came here to see what MTG was like, as a possible prelude to playing with real cards in real life. They sure found a way to prevent any actual sales revenue from me. I swear its like I am up against bots, with decks perfectly matched to counter my deck AS WELL AS my opponents getting perfectly ordered cards vs. me getting mana abused.
I don't mind the matchmaking idea, but it really needs to be based on full collection level. People with a boatload of Rares and Mythic Rares have obviously been playing forever, investing tons of money or both. They should be matched up against similar players. F2P noobs like me with few rares/mythics should also be matched up in kind.
Having power players play novices like me creates match-ups which are just frustrating for us peasants and not challenging for the power players.
They may think the way they are doing it will "force" players to invest money in the game, but, for me, that is not the way it works. Before I invest, I evaluate the game to see how well it is designed. If I see Pay-to-win aspects, or unbalanced matchmaking or broken random deck generation, that becomes a "hard-no" from my wallet. WotC - if you want my money, don't break your games.
THIS
Well done, WOTC
Having power players play novices like me creates match-ups which are just frustrating for us peasants and not challenging for the power players.
They may think the way they are doing it will "force" players to invest money in the game, but, for me, that is not the way it works. Before I invest, I evaluate the game to see how well it is designed. If I see Pay-to-win aspects, or unbalanced matchmaking or broken random deck generation, that becomes a "hard-no" from my wallet. WotC - if you want my money, don't break your games.