TweetyLeaf;n10603982 said:
So as I said:
When basic mechanics win over advanced mechanics, the game is doing something wrong.
Honestly, it shouldn't. Engine decks, weather decks, they should all beat point spam. If you are not having a good win-rate against the deck, then you are playing it wrong.
One thing I agree with is that point-slam decks
are easier. So for low skill players, point-spam can work better than other decks. But tons of engine decks are viable at high ranks, you just need to build the deck well and play it correctly.
Henselt is also tier 1 and not point-spam, Alchemy is the best deck out there and not point-spam (Reveal neither), Deathwish is not point-spam and tier 1 as well, Greatswords is not point-spam and equally tier 1. Eithne is tier 2, but viable, and not point-spam. So every single faction has options that are not point-spam and are competitive at the highest levels. That is not counting viable brews like Drunken dwarves that are viable up to quite high in the ladder.
Now, you can't expect that every home brew you make will be competitively viable. That is not a problem of Gwent, that is simply not how card games work. I tried to make an Ogroid deck work, and it simply wouldn't. It is simply bad. But shinmiri is having a lot of success with a very spicy Wild hunt deck, and if you call that deck point-spam, then I'm not sure what is not point-spam.