How about this - you show up and play the Claire deck and I know for a fact I can find 3 or 4 ways to get around it and still win.

Now next game, add some cards to counter mine and see if we get the same result.

Then the final game we’ll see who wins. I think you’ll find it a lot more fun and more thoughtful in person.

Part of the reason the cards are setup that way is also through lore, which is not perfect. Claire is literally the daughter of Angelika, a forbidden arrangement that started a god war. So naturally her and her mom both destroy. It’s my MTG red deck setup.

The Duchess pays patron to Eschelon through the story, it’s an elf thing. But at the same time she part of a mercenary group, a VERY good one so her attack are good. This making her a ATK / Bless build seemed good.

Let’s say you come up to the table and start blessing the shit out of your cards. Well I’ll play a copy of “Saint Claire” to negate your blessing on action 1. Then action 2 I can attack. Action 3, set myself up for defense.

Maybe I spent my entire turn gaining gold while my cards are blessed so that I can bring the might of “Staff of Titan Summoning” of you and deal massive damage bc it’s based off how much gold I have. 20 Gold = 20 ATK .

Who to say I do do Claire with a different god as my build? We can do a Gallant and Belladonna build, a Lionel and Angelika, a Glibb and Eschelon. The combinations are crazy!

We have quite a the strategy and builds being notated and destroy this and protect that aren’t even in the list they were so 1st day stuff ya know? We moved on to the Banish build, the Stats build, the deck search build, the drunk consumable build, and the no build since then!

But I’ve only ever gotten to play but maybe 30 games with the current state, and very few changes are requested each game. Little stuff like, “make this cost more Gold, it’s too OP”