So, I had a run of bad luck today. BO1 ranked, even using the same deck without any changes, I kept running into matches of either mana flood or mana screw, even with the best choices of mulligan I could pull off and relatively decent looking opening hands. I would either not be able to get past 3 mana until it was way too late, or hit, like, one non-land card after hitting 8 or 9 lands on the field in a non-ramp deck before losing, reliant almost entirely on the cards that were in my opening hand. It was super-frustrating, because it lasted long enough to go down multiple full sub-ranks. I got back up to where I started afterwards relatively quickly, but the maches that I then won were very dissapointing, because it seemed like the same thing that happened to me was happening to my opponents, and most of them conceeded after playing relatively few cards and tons of lands, or after being stuck at 2 or 3 lands after I'd hit my 5th or 6th land drop in between steady non-land playable cards.
The matches were overall very uninteresting because of this, and I wound up more stressed than having fun like I usually do.
I'd never had this long a run of bad matches in arena before, and only once I'd experienced something like this in paper magic.
Any suggestions for how to deal with the stress of runs of bad luck leading to long strings of losses and uninteresting wins?
Note that I got roughly even amounts of mana flood and mana screw, and have decent card draw/fixing, so adjusting the number of lands in my deck won't help, it really was just extreme bad luck that even really good deck design wouldn't be able to help with. I know it doesn't happen very often, but in a random thing like a game with shuffled decks, it can certainly happen again, and I'd like advice for how to deal with the situation without having another morning like this one.
Should I have just quit for the day before that many matches went by? I was trying to get all my daily stuff (the first 5 wins and the daily bonus from doing a special thing) so I wouldn't fall behind too much when relying primarily on free play. Should I try switching up decks more to try to get into a different mindset even if that doesn't really affect luck? Should I take a break and come back later? Should I adjust my lands and cantrips and stuff up and down and such a bit for psychological reinforcement even if it defies statistical sense? Should I build an even more cantrip heavy deck like a phoenix deck even if it's not my favored playstyle and switch to that on days when I hit a string of bad luck?
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
The matches were overall very uninteresting because of this, and I wound up more stressed than having fun like I usually do.
I'd never had this long a run of bad matches in arena before, and only once I'd experienced something like this in paper magic.
Any suggestions for how to deal with the stress of runs of bad luck leading to long strings of losses and uninteresting wins?
Note that I got roughly even amounts of mana flood and mana screw, and have decent card draw/fixing, so adjusting the number of lands in my deck won't help, it really was just extreme bad luck that even really good deck design wouldn't be able to help with. I know it doesn't happen very often, but in a random thing like a game with shuffled decks, it can certainly happen again, and I'd like advice for how to deal with the situation without having another morning like this one.
Should I have just quit for the day before that many matches went by? I was trying to get all my daily stuff (the first 5 wins and the daily bonus from doing a special thing) so I wouldn't fall behind too much when relying primarily on free play. Should I try switching up decks more to try to get into a different mindset even if that doesn't really affect luck? Should I take a break and come back later? Should I adjust my lands and cantrips and stuff up and down and such a bit for psychological reinforcement even if it defies statistical sense? Should I build an even more cantrip heavy deck like a phoenix deck even if it's not my favored playstyle and switch to that on days when I hit a string of bad luck?