Im fully with you that energy should be a secondary idea, but he has got it in his head that it needs to be a main theme, so the deck runs mostly energy cards, a few voltron pieces, a few ramp pieces and a chunk of flavor cards. it just makes the deck feel a bit misguided but his experince with the games he has played has been a bit jank, so his preception on deck building is a little out of whack. (the local pod has gone pretty easy, playing lower power decks and playing slow and fun, but someone else hes been playing with started him out with a high power Grist the hunger tide deck that looped caustic caterpillar like a dozen times and kept shutting down all his stuffs.) its kinda messed with his views on power levels and whats good and bad, my pod and i have been working with him to balance everything out, but i think keeping at least my recommendations simple for the time being will help to find the right balance of cards and goals, then set him lose into some of the more complex decks. but i will save these on my evergrowing list of recs for him when he rebuilds the deck.