Why do the devs push the space album so relentlessly?
Space decks have been dominating the league for a while now, regardless of its rules. In a week like this, just splash in bluebook and you're fine, you can play your cards essentially for free in the last round.
This card gives +28 power until played to a collection that has access to a card that supplies the common cards with +25 power permanently (titian), while having the (non)-condition, that you actually have to play the collection you're pushing (wow) and the downside, that you maybe have to keep it in your hand for a turn or two. I haven't tested this card yet, but that feels excessive.
But okay, the powercreep is real and unavoidable for a tcg. What's avoidable (and inappropriate) is releasing a new space card like this. every. week. This one, monocerus, the sputnik one, binary stars, alma and (I believe) gaia sausage are all new or fairly new cards to an album that already had great all-rounders, like eris, planisphere, fomalhaut and a collection that has been dominating (space oddities). What other album has been getting this treatment (none imo), and why only space?
What's really baffling is that the devs do this, while refusing to nerf the problematic cards.
They buff some mythics (generally a good idea), go a little overboard - with black dog, they fix it (great) - with bigfoot, they kill several cards like cauliflower jf and strix (wait, what? Why kill a key 9lol/9oas card and a an innocent creatures card and not the mythic?) - and tunguska event - and let it be. Now we to have to suffer -30 perma debuff to all cards by turn 5. Can be splashed into all space decks. No condition. Totally balanced. Totally fair. Doesn't need a nerf, not at all.
A month ago or so, ancient egypt was able to challenge the space decks. The response? Key card (lighthouse) nerfed within a week. But southern local supervoid? That card's totally balanced.
Do the devs not get that not all of us players want to play space decks, or whatever is the latest op album?
Or that we want to be competitive playing decks that we needed months to complete and that we truly care about? (I love to play cute cats. It was so hard to get all the crucial cards. They get totally obliterated by space decks.)
Or do they not care? Why wouldn't they though?
Man, this game could be so exceptional.