Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
BO1 Magic is different from the traditional paper one because of the hand smoother. Hand smoother selects a hand from a selection of them based on your deck composition. This is to limit the number of games decided through mana problems and reduce the need to mulligan. But how does it work exactly? I look at the first hand data from thousands of limited games on Arena from the 17Lands.com database to determine: what does the smoother do and what are the implications of it for the deck construction and deck building in Limited.
BO1 Magic is different from the traditional paper one because of the hand smoother. Hand smoother selects a hand from a selection of them based on your deck composition. This is to limit the number of games decided through mana problems and reduce the need to mulligan. But how does it work exactly? I look at the first hand data from thousands of limited games on Arena from the 17Lands.com database to determine: what does the smoother do and what are the implications of it for the deck construction and deck building in Limited.
