Welcome back! I wrote previously about the impact of hand smoothing on Arena’s Best of One format; I won’t rehash that piece here but it showed that the effect of hand smoothing is both clear and significant. Initially this hand smoothing analysis was applied only to 60 card decks with 24 lands. While 24/60 cards … Continue reading MTG Arena’s Opening Hand Algorithm and Smoothing: Finding the Ideal Land Count for BO1