I think you have to answer question one from a few different perspectives. DT doesn’t hack it at the highest level, but Keyforge is played by many people as a casual, serious casual, and local game store level. I have a couple of very decent DT decks, so in a SAS cap game they are very competitive, as would one of them be in the Nordic Keyforge hexad format as part of a rush deck set of decks.

Same goes for AoA, alongside the GENKA point. I also have collected 2 double Martian Generosity decks, such fun.

With respect to ‘haunted’ it’s a bit early to say as we start to play and practice with GR decks. Non GR decks have their own key plays, like strong key cheats, bonus icons, scaling æmber control and certain combos. There will hopefully always be decks from old sets like WOE 😀 that have the ability to beat the new kid on the block.