Sorry if the following post is a bit offtopic, but it doesnt deserve a thread of its own and i dont know what else to put it.
Just had a ranked match.
Im playing SY Bounties, which is quite strong and dangerous, he's playing toxic NG Ball.
There's an intense R1, he's clearly trying to get card advantage from me but i dont let him, but i do let him win.
This individual proceeds to immediately slap ball on R2 and try to 2-0 me.
I think he's actually gonna do it, because i got no spenders and a ton of coin generation.
He plays the location for the quadruple Joachim, goes for VWAlchemist to try and snag a good gold, but finds my arena fiend.
This genius then plays cantarella, into his 4th joachim, that pulls a 15pt arena fiend, that without the 1coin tribute, kills itself
Then he plays Usurper, but since he's an aggressive
[...] player, since its R2, its not an aristocrat yet and doesnt trigger ball.
Then he passes, without triggering ball once, but 11 points ahead, thinking he's getting CA now.
I play the new Hale, 12pts, win the round exactly by 1pt.
R3, i absolutely annihilate him with my best cards.
This is not a post to brag, quite the opposite. Its these matches that lower my consideration for the Gwent playerbase (this is Rank 3 btw), which IMO is getting worse every year, to this point where players just play mindlessly, never pass and just hope their strong easy metadecks will do the trick for them.
I obviously know not all players are like this, but i fear in relative terms (%), that number is growing.