There are many neutral Golds that are pathetic and is too conditional that it can't be used ever in ranked mode (unless you are memeing). Lambert comes to my mind first along with CiriNova, one of the best animated cards in Gwent, and Vainglory.. But there is always a defense against Neutrals being bad; that is, they are neutrals, they should be bad. But I want to talk about Faction Golds which are pathetic. There are a lot of faction golds which don't see play because there are better alternatives in the faction. Some are vulnerable in a combo (like Vattier; which is an incredibly powerful card, but is vulnerable for removal and needs a locked unit). These cards can win you a game when the opponent doesn't expect them. I am not talking about those cards. I want to discuss about cards which are functionally pathetic, and nearly unusable.
Honorable Mentions:
Jotunn - He would work in a no-unit deck and with the nerf to no-unit deckbuilding, he doesn't have an place. Even though he breaks even if opponent has two more units than you, he is still bad, functionally.
Ermion - There are no good Alchemy cards. Golden Forth was worth a tutor and after it got nerfed and Wolfsbane got nerfed (rightfully so), Ermion has become junk as there is no card worth tutoring by him.
Hattori - 3 points deficiency to play a bronze artifact on order - he was kind of usable when artifacts were uber powerful (like Spears and Shields). After they got nerfed, he became ever more useless and pathetic.
Gremist - Same as above; When Golden Forth was powerful, he kind of made sense. But after all alchemy cards were nerfed, he has nothing worthy to play and that too on order.
Serious contender:
Ceallach Dyfrrin - What are you going to purify in NG which is worth purifying? In the age of "all cards should bring more value than their provision cost" having -2 and purifying the cards on the row it gets played is just junk. Just see Coodcudak; he breaks even and can purify two units; that is the most you may need purifying.
Undefeated Champion:
The most pathetic card design-wise and functionality-wise in the entire game. What would be your game plan with this card? Are you going to boost yourself and spam or are you going to have a lot of damage cards and try to have more units that are damaged? You can't do both; your units would either boost self or allies or damage the enemy. Even then, how can you be sure what the opponent will do? What if the opponent has more units that are boosted? What if your units are damaged? This is the only gold card which has the potential to be played for negative value on the board and having 9 provisions (This actually happened; I tried a Fila deck with Isengrim and elves, but in the end there were most boosted enemies and damaged allies and I had to put that card in the graveyard and Pass to accept the defeat).
So, if there is an award called "The absolute piece of sh*t", this card will get it without any competition, hands down. With the same ability, I would not add it in my deck even if it is a 5 provision card (5 Power, 5 Provisions) because there is no damn way your strategy alone can get you positive value. You may go with 'boost them all' and the opponent may also have such deck and you may end up playing for a negative value. Same applies if you go with 'damage them all'. This card just can't work as it depends on what the opponent brings and does.
This card should get a totally different ability or at the least be changed to something like this: 5 Power, 6 Provisions ; Boost all boosted allies by 1 and Damage all damaged allies by 1. Until then, whenever I see this card, I would always get disgusted.
What in your opinion is the worst pathetic PoS faction gold functionally?
Honorable Mentions:
Jotunn - He would work in a no-unit deck and with the nerf to no-unit deckbuilding, he doesn't have an place. Even though he breaks even if opponent has two more units than you, he is still bad, functionally.
Ermion - There are no good Alchemy cards. Golden Forth was worth a tutor and after it got nerfed and Wolfsbane got nerfed (rightfully so), Ermion has become junk as there is no card worth tutoring by him.
Hattori - 3 points deficiency to play a bronze artifact on order - he was kind of usable when artifacts were uber powerful (like Spears and Shields). After they got nerfed, he became ever more useless and pathetic.
Gremist - Same as above; When Golden Forth was powerful, he kind of made sense. But after all alchemy cards were nerfed, he has nothing worthy to play and that too on order.
Serious contender:
Ceallach Dyfrrin - What are you going to purify in NG which is worth purifying? In the age of "all cards should bring more value than their provision cost" having -2 and purifying the cards on the row it gets played is just junk. Just see Coodcudak; he breaks even and can purify two units; that is the most you may need purifying.
Undefeated Champion:
Ele'yas:
So, if there is an award called "The absolute piece of sh*t", this card will get it without any competition, hands down. With the same ability, I would not add it in my deck even if it is a 5 provision card (5 Power, 5 Provisions) because there is no damn way your strategy alone can get you positive value. You may go with 'boost them all' and the opponent may also have such deck and you may end up playing for a negative value. Same applies if you go with 'damage them all'. This card just can't work as it depends on what the opponent brings and does.
This card should get a totally different ability or at the least be changed to something like this: 5 Power, 6 Provisions ; Boost all boosted allies by 1 and Damage all damaged allies by 1. Until then, whenever I see this card, I would always get disgusted.
What in your opinion is the worst pathetic PoS faction gold functionally?
