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Solo needs changes. Computers cheat and it's frustrating.

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I think it's well established that the computers are basically cheating in the Solo matches. I ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL get clapped during my first match against the expert battles, no matter how well tailored my deck is, and the reason is obvious; When are players usually doing this first battle against the expert match? They become available at the same time as the new pack releases, and they want the new cards to appear as strong as possible so that people want them. They get clapped in their first match against these new cards and then they tend to think more that "I need this card". It's done to push sales with no transparency on the balance changes in the solo matches. Put simply it's predatory. I'd like to see notes on the Solo page in the app that outline the differences: weighted coinflips and cooked hands in particular. If these imbalances are to persist, i'd love to see the implementation of mulligans in the Solo matches, but ideally, the coin flips would simply be 50/50 odds instead of what the data shows as a 2/3 ratio favoring the computer. Also, concerning mulligans, ideally there would be no hand shenanigans going on (putting your good stuff on the bottom of your deck/putting the computers good stuff on top) in which case a single mulligan in Solos would be fine. However, if the shenanigans are to persist, we should be allowed to mulligan indefinitely.