Please help me, I'm genuinely curious.
I'm not bad at Magic: I've played for years, different LGS, can't remember the last time if ever I've done worse than 2-1. I'm trying to say I'm not super noob, I know how cards work and game theory and stuff.
But my winrate on Arena is legitimately under 5%. I have a stat tracking. Less than 5% win rate for constructed. It's closer to a little >50% for limited formats. But constructed, yeah, under 5%.
Obviously I've never climbed out of bronze. But like, my experience in other TCGs or strategy games (like TFT) is that climbs have always been easy until I get to high gold. Why is that not the case here? Like, my opponents don't misplay, in the lowest possible ranks. I use budget decks, sure, but like, that's my experience with how most people play in bronze? Is it not? Why is Arena so different?