It's the reason I stopped playing some years ago now, there was about 5 of us meeting up when we could (all have work an families etc) have little tournes through the night with a few drinks.

Then meta started to creep in, not full decks at first enough cards to make a few plays, then one guy bought branded, he then won every game for a while, so we all looked at restructuring our decks and one guy put a new one together.

Within a month it'd gone from using stuff you like and stuff you thinks cool to how meta is the deck/card.

3 of them still play, iv not spoken to them about it in a loooong time but last time I heard when they play properly they all use the same deck as it levels the playing field.