Counterpoint: Expansion is fun

I prefer to lurk here, but I'm so baffled by the Vicious Syndicate podcast and resulting furor that I had to offer a rebuttal. ZachO admits right out the gate that he has barely played any of this expansion. He is simply looking at numbers--no actual real play experience.

Well as someone who has been playing casually each day... its a lot of fun! I'm currently at Plat 5 and I got there with a janky Excavate/Starship Rogue deck. I'm sure the data is right, that the expansion cards are not strong. But building and piloting decks has been a blast.

I could point to some true duds. The Arkwing thing is not working. Warlock starship is too slow and clunky. But it's all generally been an exciting deckbuilding challenge to work out and even the failures lead to some absolutely wild games.

Maybe in a couple of weeks the older sets will feel as oppressive as the data says they are. But right now the data is ignoring that there are dozens of weird new tricks and things to explore. Shaffar Hunter! Think about it--Shaffar Hunter!!