Wizard level no instants & sorceries & command line issues

[Aswan jaguar]

I have begun 2 consecutive games in wizard level and both times I wasn't given any sorceries or instants is this the original behaviour or something introduced with latest update?I didn't pay attention to this while playing before and didn't find anything searching the forum.

Guys does the command " shandalar --help" works for you?
I have made others to work but not this one.It shows as something is happening/loading in the background but nothing happens next.It opens in device manager and then after few seconds closes.
I have also made a new clean installation of shandalar to test it (keeping the old one)but can't make the command "Shandalar --deckbuilder" to open shandalar's deckbuilder,it errors that it can't find the new path.

[Korath]

If I'm reading this right, instants should never be in the initial deck, and sorceries can only be generated as your (single) rare. Nonbasic lands seem impossible to generate, too.

[stassy]

line command works in cmd prompt mode (at least in winxp sp3, it takes a while for 1st execution though), like --help, -d, -test, however launching the game or duel only mode that way will make it crash unless a windows shortcut is used

[lujo]

Trying to run --deckbuilder turns up regular shandalar game.

And the OG card distribution is messed up in several ways, and as been ever since multicolored cards were introduced. Not only can you not get instants and sorceries (which makes the early game crazy difficult), but what tends to happen is that you get off-color multicolored stuff. Unless you're a very specific kind of player who walks around for a good wile without figting anything it's ussually a very unpleasant experience all in all.

[TheKillerNacho]

If I'm reading this right, instants should never be in the initial deck, and sorceries can only be generated as your (single) rare. Nonbasic lands seem impossible to generate, too.

Any chance that you would look into rewriting the starting deck code?