I started playing since act 2 and the powercreep in this game is second to none.
Cries for balance and reduction in the extreme paywall have fallen on deaf ears for years and the result has been a massive player depopulation. The high tier meta is dominated by established players with enormous collections of cards that you would quite literally need to spend thousands of dollars in feez to try to obtain starting fresh through packs/trading via the model in place. There is no room for a new player to breakthrough. Consider the old english forums used to be quite active with multiple threads/posts per day and now scrolling through, its a bit like a wasteland.
Enough rant, I, like many others not here anymore, instead look to current iccg choices out there. I won't name names the one currently playing but it rhymes with lard punter and find eredan at the end just isn't worth it anymore.
Eredan ==>my$ but you were fun while the times lasted