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I just finished 11 games with my Mardu Cleave and after 8 straight were Izzet spells, I decided to change my deck to fight izzet with Izzet.

Now I’ve gotten 2 scute swarm decks and a gruul matchup.

It can just be variance, but looking at the top results for standard it seems like I should be seeing Big Red or Esper everywhere and I haven’t seen them once. The ques were also taking 30 seconds plus when I ran Mardu and now finding games instantly since switch.

TLDR: Is Arena matching us up based off of archetypes or something? I’ve played off and on since Rivals of Ixalan and while there were periods of only netdecks (looking at you cauldron trigger stumblers) I’ve never had what feels like a curated matchmaking process before.

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over 3 years ago - /u/wotc_Cromulous - Direct link

Deck weight is absolutely not a factor in Ranked matchmaking. It is used in the Play queue and in Brawl, but never in competitive game modes.

It is "unfortunate," but really just a fact of human behavior, that only people who have hit these strange, random streaks bother to come to reddit and wonder about them. I have no doubt that these experiences are real, they are just very unlikely - but when there are enough players playing, they still happen to someone.