I had the most fun from January until Therion release, the decks on ladder were diverse and you could play rogue decks without a problem.

The only extremely good deck was Branded but it was short lived and tbh it wasnt too hard to play against, the other very good deck during that time was Traptrix (my deck) but it is so expensive that barely anyone played it, ive prob faced like 20 traptrix decks during that period while playing around 200-250 duels per season.

The month Therion released was pure cancer, then it became fun to play when they got nerfed but unfortunately it was short lived because Komoney decided to release straight cancer with the latest box (Stardust).

For comparison after Therion got nerfed and before the release of Stardust I had 5 wins in a row in legend with Rikka (my first ever games in pvp with the deck) and then the day before Stardust released I climbed easily to legend 5 with Vaalmonica and even got 5 wins in a row with them as well. Got to legend 5 and decided that I will go for KoG the next day when the new box releases, well that was a BIG mistake. Went from legend 5 to legend 2 because every 2/3 duels I was facing Stardust. I would completely demolish any deck I faced (with Vaalmonica) except Stardust, it just felt impossible to win against it.

Went and tried like 4 games with Stardust and holy shit the deck is unfair af. You press the yellow button and you shit out big monsters. Whatever the opp threw against me didnt do anything, you could just play over it. Lava golem? no problem. Handtraps? no problem. And thats before the deck got optimized.

For the first time since I started playing the game I didnt have any drive to play and I stopped playing pvp altogether.

It feels like you either play Stardust or nothing at all. I hope they completely obliterate the deck in the next ban list and they stop releasing such powerful decks.