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This became a hot discussion issue in magic the gathering online (MTGO). I always felt my shuffles in MTGO felt different somehow than my offline paper shuffles
by mmmpetrichor 1y ago
This became a hot discussion issue in magic the gathering online (MTGO). I always felt my shuffles in MTGO felt different somehow than my offline paper shuffles. It's hard to know for sure when its all closed source. I know a lot of people were suspicious though.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoClosed source doesn't need to stop you - even if a server was dealing out the cards you can still do a randomness test on them once you gather enough deals, but you would probably need millions of hands of data to do the analysis (see: dieharder tests)
- Fezzik 1y agoMTGA uses a method called ‘smoothing’ for initial hand selection: https://mtgazone.com/mtg-arenas-opening-hand-algorithm-and-smoothing/ https://mtgazone.com/mtg-arenas-opening-hand-algorithm-and-s... I assume MTGO uses something similar and I swear I had a great analytical article bookmarked regarding MTGO shuffles but I can’t find it.
- malnourish 1y agoModo uses FY and fits not smooth draws. Arena only smooths in best of 1 matches.