What did I do?

I've been grinding ranked since the beginning of the most recent season (A4). I have a few different decks, most of which I would definitely describe as meta. An Espeon ex deck, an Arceus ex deck, and recently I've been messing around with a Flareon ex deck. Most of my games are on the Espeon ex deck and I typically keep up with the meta. I check tournaments regularly, I play probably a minimum of 3-4 hours of ranked a day, and I consistently change my decklist in attempt to adapt to common changes I see. I climbed to about 2250 points this season and even scraped top 10k for a few matches. Yesterday everything went south. I won 5 games and lost 36. I was disappointed to say the least, but it is what it is. Sometimes you just have bad days. But today it has continued. I've played 9 matches today, and lost 8 matches. I'm currently at 1976 points, down almost 300 points just from yesterday. It has taken me a whole week to gain 300 points after reaching master and I'm starting to feel like I offended someone on the dev team and my account has been flagged or something because I simply cannot out-draw my opponent for a single match. 9/10 games I draw both cyrus and sabrina instead of a pokeball or professors research, and whenever I do draw those cards I get Mars'd or Red Carded first turn without exception. I've been enjoying pocket so much, and really embracing the pacing as well as nature of the game, but I feel that this is just absolutely absurd. I'm making this post to hopefully formally apologize to whoever I might have offended or did something unjustly to. Perhaps it was someone that I came off as disrespectful to for holding onto my cyrus until the perfect moment (which i had from turn 1 anyway cuz I draw it 9/10 games on hand 1 at this point), or maybe someone I combo'd with Red Card and Silver, or even someone who I Mars'd when u had 2 prizes. I am sincerely sorry, I have since removed Red Card and Silver from all of my decks, I only turn 1 Mars, and I use Cyrus in strictly sportsmanlike manners.
My first thought was skill dif, but I've placed top 16 at IRL Pokemon TCG regionals several times in the past, and even won local events in my area. It probably is just a skill dif and I'm getting old and can't keep up with these young whipper snappers, however when I lose 36 games most of which were lost by turn 3, I can't help but feel a bit slighted.
I will continue to grind until the end of the season and hope for the best. Again, I sincerely apologize if I have offended anyone in the dev team who may or may not (if you fix it and make my account normal again I promise to bring the most delicious smoked salmon to the potluck just let me know where and when) have altered the state of my account.
Sincerely,
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I have the same problem. I went from 1900 to 1750 because I had a Pichu in my hand, and for the next 4 rounds I didn't draw any Pokémon, Pokémon, pokeball or Professors, and I lost. This game is broken.
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Now i tried play Zard. Last 5 card in my deck 2 Zard, 2 Candy and Oak. Is a joke. I played this game 4 season never see draw like this.
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I've had 2 games in the last couple days where both of my espeon ex were the last 2 cards in the entire deck. bricking a 20 card deck when you can draw thru 80% of it in 3 turns is unheard of.
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Was playing some arceus ex which has a 65% win rate against guzzlord ex, they flipped 6 heads in a row on a grindcore to really nail it home that i wasn't allowed to have any energy on my arceus. it was the last coinflip of the game which would have determined if i was going to win or not. i tried to set myself up so even if it landed on heads twice i could still attack for the win, but no one can be prepared enough for the 6 heads grindcore.
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