Created an off meta deck to confuse the matchmaking system

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@Schyla-1490

In every “rigged against me” claim, there must be an exact and equal “rigged for me” scenario for someone else.

Hello, Captain Obvious.

And what’s the problem here? Isn’t this forum rife with all this cheap swaggering, “I, I’m here, this is I, I’m legendary, look at me! Watch my hips moving!”

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@Schyla-1490

In your case, if the matchmaking can’t determine your deck and does something weird, you must also admit it has to do the opposite for your opponent.

It would mean that rigging breaks, nothing more.

@Schyla-1490

To put it another way, it’s logically impossible for someone to “more often than not put me against a direct counter” because that means someone else has to experience the EXACT opposite.

Yes, it is possible, and an abstract counterexample is trivial to construct. For instance, consider a half of players winning 60% of their games on average, the other half — 40%. Then you rig the matchmaking, so that everyone has 50% win rate. Can you say everyone has been treated by the rigging equally?

@Schyla-1490

The entire point of me telling you to understand your opponent’s perspective was for you to realize that you HAVE to be on the other end of things as well. At all other points in time when you find a match, YOU have to be the opponent that experiences the opposite. It can’t be true for you AND the opponent at the same time that “more often than not, the game matches me against my direct counters”. It’s logically and statistically impossible.

Yeah, yeah, if, say, a chess grandmaster is matched against amateurs and wins only half of the matches, as opposed to the expected value of about 99%, something is definitely as rigged in his favour as the other way around by that ‘logic’, because he’s also the opponent. Oh, and, just to be clear, the notion is wrong.

@Dallaen-1426

Even when matched against a direct counter you aren’t due to automatically lose.

But you still lose, say, 9 out of 10.

@Dallaen-1426

EVERY match is winnable up to a point. Play to your outs and stop worrying about why you got matched against a specific deck/class. That is a defeatist mindset and will lead you to lose games you could have won.

It’s not an eye-opener, what you said, and I’d generally agree… However, when climbing, some people decide that by conceding and playing another game in that time instead, they will rank up faster than by taking their chances in an occasional bad match-up. It could also be a functional strategy in some circumstances.