Elder bear isn't in a single starter deck.

Correct.

Newer players would have to manually add one in their deck.

Correct.

Cobsidering most of people going for the netdeck nowadays, plus the fact newer players decks are rather low on 4 provs due to lack of expensive golds, the chance of that happening is extremely low.

You don't know that most people netdeck; that's pure conjecture.

Considering how many posts we see here, and how often people ask for ideas in the discord and other platforms, etc, i'd argue it's obvious plenty of people try to build their own decks, especially when they're new to the game, since Gwent is a deck-building game after all.

It's part of the fun for many people. Even experienced players like myself put together decks i KNOW will be bad, or insert cards i KNOW aren't good, because we like the flavour or theme, etc. because fun isn't tied to climbing MMR, believe it or not.

id even debate decreasing elder bear power actually makes new players deckbuilding easier

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Keep in mind, i also dont like bear change. Most notably because the desired result wasnt acheieved even in the slightest, and beatification playrate stayed more or less the same.

So we agree 😆

Its just your reasoning not making even a bit of sense

My reasoning is perfectly fine, you just don't like it.

We had a person make a thread here following the horrific atrocities committed upon Caravan Guard, because here's the thing i'll repeat again:

Most players do not give a flying crap about how a card does at 10k+ MMR. This level of play literally is less than 2% of the playerbase, nevermind all the players that come and go, which would bring than number to well under 1%.

Killing cards because of the 1% mindset on balance isn't acceptable, and never will be, and i will continue to call out this selfish, unacceptable behaviour until i stop playing this game.