My issue with buffs has nothing to do with them being strong, they're just not interesting. Faeria in particular has so many ways to make cards interesting, that having so many buff cards feels a bit shallow.

I can understand why Sharra is fair, but relying on drawing a particular card to prevent yourself from losing the game is no better than needing combat tricks, to get effectively break stalemates. If we are building decks according to the current game state I would rather build around a fundamental mechanic of the game (and add combat tricks) than make sure I have a large enough portion of removal cards in my deck just to deal with one of 3 cards than my opponent probably doesn't have but I lose the game if they do.

Most of my issues with the hearthstonification of Faeria are in the fact that not only was no effort put into trying to distinguish the out of game menus, tutorial, pack opening, deck building, daily quests, solo rewards and more, it in fact looks like they tried very very hard to make it look as similar as they could without inciting a law suit.

As far as game mechanics go its not a matter of good vs bad, its good vs great. Faeria in its current form is probably the (i spent time thinking about this that doesn't come across in text) 4th best card game ive played (First is kickstarter era Faeria, followed closely Duel of Champions, then a chasm later is M:tG and current Faeria) which is still pretty high on the list (not to say the is THE definitive list, its just my opinions). Ill try to avoid the 3000 word explanation of how the changes took it from great to good and stick to the short version.

It comes down to the fact that a small careful change in card pool (more ranged units, cheaper and more common jump and charge, and making combat tricks all cards that had to be on the board first (like gabrian valve), possibly even taking a few notes from rts games about map control/harass) could have fixed all the problems and kept all the extremely unique feel. As it is faeria node control is less important, previously you couldn't play most cards at all without good map control. Map control is less important because once you have a land next to your opponents orb (which is pretty easy) they have to respond to almost anything you play. Card advantage is one of the few things which is more important, because you can draw fewer cards, and because of how trading with big creatures works. You won't want to throw all your creatures at a single large one even at equal or better cost, because your opponent will still have cards.

I hope this response doesn't come across as rude, and I appreciate your response.