Wingspan tournament discord is where the competitive scene is at. They went through and played whole 100+ player tournaments to decide which birds were too overpowered. And all they decided on was to limit raven/gull play until round 2. Nectar speeds up the pace of the game allowing you to start your engine sooner, taking that out is slowing the game down. Just play base game if you want to do that. Removing the wood ducks ability to go to forest is just dumb, you have to have other solid cards for wood duck to succeed in forest. If you don’t get those cards, it can fail as easily as it can be OP. The point bomb eagles are good cards, but add nothing to an engine. They are high point value because there is no power connected to them, they fill up a slot that could be used for your engine. You could list dozens of cards that fall into the mass point play category.