I tried the new client yesterday, before I noticed this news just to try out SCSNs patch.
I think the patch really helped, delays were no longer my biggest annoyance. Thanks to SCSN for that.
Unfortunately automatch still totally sucked.
They still have the same silly interface, using a choose-thing on the left (human/AI/human+AI) and a toggle-thing on the right (2P/3P/4P) that look exactly the same.
They also still display AI as brains and humans as pawns. While waiting for a match I still get no feedback whatsoever.
I suggested doing something else on all of these five months ago and got really nice thank you notes for all suggestions.
MF claimed my rank was 5048 or something, good enough with me.
Now I have the option of choosing (Any rating, close if available, only within 1000 points of my rating).
I honestly have no idea what the difference between the first two is, so I went with the latter.
On a scrying pool engine my opponent opened Potion/Silver and I went for Potion/Pawn. Apparently my opponent was very impressed with my Pawn buy, because on turn 3 with $4P in play he also bought a Pawn.
During some of my games I had this weird display thing where all the cards went small. Even on games where it didn't, the animations when my opponent bought a card often made it look strange. He bought an Armory, yet the animation started at the Ironmonger pile, very confusing every time.
Clearly MF is ready for launch now.