Random nature of turn order

You'd still have randomness in situations where people had equal characters if it was by health or 2nd degree speeds. I don't think it matters much, except perhaps during the campaign, you'll experience a randomness (not truly but practically) in league and draft play since you have no idea if or where your opponent will place a ghostwalker or mountain troll so sometimes you just get screwed or get lucky. But perhaps the person with a lower ranking would get some kind of advantage? Or the computer player in campaign always goes first? Or maybe it could alternate who goes first each time there is a tie in speed, but have the lower rank go faster the first time?

I second what Xuande said; the RNG keeps the game exciting at high level - especially in drafts. Don't take it away.

I've had a few fights with the top three (Bees?, Vamp, and Kissmenow) where we have split rounds and the winner was left to RNG. Take that away and you are left with the luck of card selection and board placement as the only random factors.

If one player has a superior draft, it is nice to still be a threat as an underdog with a superior RNG. (And painful when it goes against you!)

I didn't know there were leagues for draft. I thought it was one giant queue.

Anyhow, I don't share your experience as I usually have to wait at most only a minute or so before finding an opponent. With the holidays, I have been on all hours day and night. EST am is slow, but there are a handful of players on around the clock.

That said, new opponents are still learning the game and are pretty bad. There are a handful of good players though and I would say that 50% of my matches are competitive.

The one thing I wish they could change is lowering the selection time during link disconnects. It sucks waiting 30 seconds x 12, plus 3 minutes x 2 for the match to complete against a ghost opponent. Not sure how that would be feasible without also being exploitable.

I agree with Xuande about both comments on the draft thing. It's mostly for fun. If you get screwed with a lame set of cards and your opponent opens with vampire lord and Ulthur they'll have an advantage but you can get lucky despite your crap cards. Also at first I was at like 1050 and would win about 2/3 of the time time against some people (can't remember their names) who had like 1200+, after doing lots of draft half the time they're basically free points because you see someone with "Rating 1000" and obviously the guy who never played in a draft before will lose. Though I usually play in the middle of the night or early morning since I'm a graveyard shift guy.

It would be cool if we could have a sort of collaborative lab. For example if I set up a team with the 3 fire casters, spell fork, a water wall and some garbage that costs 1 and can't find a viable team that beats it regularly I could post it and Xuande sees it and goes "Psh my mountain troll + frenzy team will destroy that" he could post it as a reply. Include a note maybe, which would allow you to do Coliseum type stuff "Only green vs fire mage/spell fork" and realize it's impossible without a mountain troll maybe (or maybe not). All useful stuff especially for the higher level players I'd think.

Yeah my concerns are mostly about the metagame. I was trying Spell Fork - Initiate/Adept/(back)Vislav/Bat/Water Wall, all level 3 (except Vlislav), and it was common to have 2-3 guys dead in the first round, definitely by the second. I'd worry about Mountain Troll and stuff like that but realistically how many people are doing that? There are like 30% people who know what they're doing and the rest are new to it so they build a team out of 20 cards or fewer or don't realize that Spell fork is dominating most regular teams. Basically if you have a mountain troll, you're crippling some other part of the spell fork team, and if it isn't spell fork then it's probably getting beat. That's been my experience in league and/or lab at least, I don't have too many rank 4, and only my main guys are at rank 3 so it's hard to test everything. Except for last night, of course, where I changed my league team to include only Vislav so I could play around with evolutions and after I was satisfied I logged off. This morning I went to check league status and OH SHIT! I'd forgotten to set my team back up and lost two battles with only Vislav! Lol oh well, whatever just coins right? Perhaps after several leagues enough people will do Mountain Troll or Antimage stuff that spell fork is no longer the most effective, who knows.

It would be nice if the Lab allowed you to test any rank of evolution for any card you've owned. Sometimes I'll evolve something, say Water Wall to max rank my league team, and use up Shieldbearer. Later I'll want to run a test and have no Shieldbearers and can only use upper rank Water Walls. I don't mind farming some stuff to evolve characters I am using, but I don't want to spend endless hours evolving stuff just to see what they can do I'd rather know what I'm going for and farm in order to acquire that guy.

Coincidentally in the league I just joined (I notice you're not in it so no conflict of interest) I was going to try exactly as you describe. Fork/Initiate/Troll/Sage/Bat/Wall. With the all 3 mages usually it'd kill 2 enemies in the first round unless they had a troll, now it likely won't start killing until the 2nd round, which wouldn't normally be bad but then my opponent could even have a falcon in the wrong spot and I'm screwed. I guess we'll see how it plays out.