Considering you can get to legend with pretty much any deck. That wouldn’t work out well in matching up.
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As a player I would prefer that deck selection is a neutral factor as far as match making goes. There’s a lot of homogenisation creeping into games these days and it removes agency from players, which makes them easier up front but ultimately less fun.
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MMR has nothing to do with bots.
I see zero bots when matched by mmr because I play better than bot MMR.
Bots are about your rank, not your MMR.
This is correct.
There’s just no need to consider decks in this system.
I understand what you’re trying to get at, but it doesn’t work like you think it would.
It’s also a way to game the system. Play a bot deck, only match bots, rank 1 legend because you’re not a bot.
It’s just not a good idea for numerous reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpMwDgxC-I
Why? Standard MM is there for people to rank up and earn greater rewards. If people could rank up by manipulating the MM and playing different decks, those rewards (as weak as they already are) are pointless. IMO, if you want those rewards, it’s perfectly reasonable to queue into anything and everything. I’m spending my time trying to win, why would I want a system that is going to try and make me lose?
If you don’t care about the rewards and simply want to play the game for fun, Casual Mode exists as well as making friends and challenging them. You can even hang out in the lower ranks and do w/e. I personally like to play a handful of meme decks to complete quests in Wild and just lose a bunch of games in a row if I happen to get close to the next floor. I almost never run into high tier decks and actually have a lot of fun.
It’s worth noting that a deck’s power level is highly dependent on the popularity of other decks. I’m sure most of us still remember when Nathria Miracle Rogue was so highly represented in top legend that Questline Priest was tier 1 in that bracket, while being tier 4 across the rest of ladder. A deck’s power level isn’t even static across a variety of ranks at a single point in time, let alone week to week in a perpetually changing metagame. How would you seek to determine a deck’s power level when its win rate drastically changes based on what other players decide to queue.
What happens to players ranks when they switch decks? If I suddenly change from a deck that’s tier 1 in my bracket to a deck that’s tier 4 in my bracket, I expose myself to a completely different group of players. Do I have a brand new rank for my deck tier or am I now competing for the same spot on the same ladder with different people? What’s to stop people blocking high ranks by taking them early and then queuing starter decks with zero skill expression to force 50/50 matchups so they can’t be knocked down?
What if I make a home brew deck and want to see how it fares against the most successful decks in the field but I can’t because matchmaker intentionally puts me against weaker decks because my list lacks data?
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Just so people know, there seems to be a mass reporter lurking again.
Otherwise, I can’t imagine why this header in this thread was actually hidden for a little while and now restored.
At least moderators are doing good work to restore the unjustified reporting.
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