I'm really just waiting for next patch, hoping there will be some balance there, cause it seems to me that devs really, really hate monster decks.
After that harsh nerfing of the weather cards, playing with monster deck is a gamble however you play it, and it can be described like a match of ping-pong between utter frustration and close wins, especially if you manage to crawl up that ladder of ranked game and starting to face better and better oponents.
Let's see NR deck, f.e? It is so OP'd that I really hope that they will in future at least nerf a bit of that never ending spawning of reaver hunters, reaver scouts, selfbuffing knights, medics... etc (special and silver cards are O.K, but they can play without most of them very often, at least against monster decks).
There is simply no defense against someone that needs only 1 or 2 cards to screw your wild hunt raiders (7 pts each) deck, and crones aren't that hard to conquer if at the last round you spawn 1 bizzillion pts with King Bran and his everbuffing reavers or selfrepairing and selfbuffing knights.
There is a simillar technique for all of the factions:
Scoiatel has their own buffers that aren't special cards like potions. No, they're just regular bronze cards that are buffing their other cards, plus the ability to move them around and escape any weather effect at all, like dwarven mercenaries. What to say about silver cards? Barclay and Yarpen Zigrin have their card advantage pluses, PLUS buffing of all the other cards. What bronze or silver card in a monster deck has ANY of that perks? There aren't any. In monster decks you're happy if you get 2 golden cards in 3 turns, and buffing is an option only with "Trio" of Wild hunt riders, but Geralt Igni or anyone that can kill or lock just ONE of them is enough to leave monsters floating dead in the water.
Nilfgaard and their revealing bonuses have no borders. You have to really suck to lose from monsters, if you have only one rot tosser, not to mention 3 of them.
Whom did I forget? Skellige?
I don't know, to me Skellige seems like a balanced deck, but at the same time that means they suffer a lot from other OP'd factions just like monsters.
And don't take this post as whining, I play and win more than I lose; I'm just pointing on OP'd cards and decks, I have nothing against the players that are taking advantage of this and play with their NR or any other faction deck. I'll always hit that "good game" button, cause all of you, just like me - are playing with the hand it's dealt to you, there is nothing wrong in that.
If my crones or Harpies or whatever would buff themselves or other cards around them, I'd be happy as you are in your armored and self healing and selfbuffing knights or reavers or dwarves, I don't "hate the player - I hate the game".
With obvious thing - I don't hate anything - just pointing out to some annoying shait, that's all.
All the best to you all..
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