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maybe i am not good at the game, but it is super clear that some characters are just not good and others are just overly broken. Is this just me? Sierra for example is extremely weak, since it takes so long to setup any permanents and most of her cards are not all that strong, compared to nevanka who is just overly too strong, with asmedeus eithre destroying one lane OR an anchor of 4/4/4 at a 50% chance.

With starter decks the only difference is how many rare card you will draw compared to your opponent, since the rares are simply a better version of the same card with a better ration mana cost / effect.
With assioma, if you can play the rare generator at 5 mana with a discount of 1, you will simply win the match if your opponent can't remove it like Muna.. (a 3/3/3 free token every round it's pretty hard to compensate)
The same happen with the ordis monolith... if you can't remove it cause you don't have card who remove 4+ permanents you will simply lose the game.
The game will change with custom decks.. ATM it's only luck more then skill

I felt the same, with some decks I have won all the games, with other I have lost all the games. Either the initial decks are unbalanced or the game is. I rather to belive in the first option.

Apparently there's an interview with the creators saying that the starting decks are unbalanced (especially towards ordis) and they're not worried about it once people start constructing their own decks. We'll have to wait and see how that pans out.

Ordis is completely OP versus the other starter decks.

Ordis is stronger, Yzmir is weaker, the rest are comparably powered out of the starter. Though I haven't been able to play extensively (maybe 10 games of each), both constructed and sealed resulted in balanced, very fun matches.

Yzmir, weaker ? One of the best imho... I'm currentlty 11-1 with it on BGA ranked with prebuilt, and I'm far from a top player... It only really suffers versus Ordis ( and sometimes versus Axiom), because it's not that easy to deal with the repetition of tokens.

I'd say:

1/ Ordis ( no bad match up)
2/ Yzmir ( really good vers Muna/Lyra/Bravos)
3/ Muna ( solid overall)
4/ Bravos
5/ Axiom ( some awkward openings, but can be a surprise with a correct setup)
6/ Lyra ( seems something is missing - particularly if you don't see your Ouroboros).

ordis and yzmir are pretty op compared to the rest. literally just faceroll as ordis and yzmir gets to always go second and react to anything so good luck buffing any creatures or using tokens because it's going to go back to your hand.

Starter/Premade decks are really not that balanced, but it's not that far off too, imo. Just gotta find a deck that fits your playstyle.

Thank you for confirming that Lyra starter is underpowered. I've been playing solely with it since the concept of dice appeals, but I've yet to win, so maybe I should try Ordis