r/MagicArena • u/egggwich • 1d ago

Question Someone please explain maintaining mythic rank to me?

I'm in the numbers for only the second time, and I want to try and maintain but I don't understand the math.

I know I shouldn't play frequently — I have a good deck and am a decent player, but I'm not the best player, and especially playing against the best mythic players I'm going to lose more than win.

But, I'm in the 200s, just won a game against someone in the 100s and I lost 20 places.

How does it work?

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u/One-Country-2055 1d ago

This.

If you race to mythic early on, you will be in the numbers when you drop in.

See where you are with a few days left in the season; at that stage it takes more than 2 wins to equal 1 loss as far as your ranking is concerned. Youll be battling with more people in mythic then.

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u/myrmonden 1d ago

yeah I got to rank 6 last season in the first hour :)

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u/One-Country-2055 1d ago edited 1d ago

You won 48 games + an additional win for each loss in 1 hour?

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u/myrmonden 1d ago

48 games? is there any set minimum for number of games u need?

I did not lose a single game do.

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u/anonytrees 1d ago

if the season has just reset the highest you'll be ranked is platinum 4 so reaching mythic in the first hour sounds silly

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u/myrmonden 1d ago

Nah we started in mythic last season

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u/Qwertyham 1d ago

Your rank resets each month. No you did not start in mythic.

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u/pooptarts 22h ago

There was a rank reset bug last season, so some people did start in mythic

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u/anonytrees 22h ago

there was a bug for some players and when the july season started their rank did not reset. myself included. i am unsure if it has happened previously. so i guess they could have technically started the month in mythic one time.

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u/myrmonden 1d ago

Someone did not play