>>54820150I dont see your points.
Yes, there are fillercards. Yes it is a Game meant for children to play (they have to build decks with the cards they have (offline) to play. So did we as we were children. And it was fun).
You have so many possibilities and tactics you can play. You complain that there are useless cards. So what? Don't use them. You think it is not ballanced because of weakness? Well play a Dragon-Deck then.
You can play meta, you can play a rougedeck, you can even play a trolldeck (Venomoth) and all of them (if crafted good enough and having a solid strategy) can win you games. And all of them can lose games. If there was one obvious "best take", everybody would play the exact same deck (Like everybody in WoW have the same BIS items and the same Spec, and the same enchantments), and that would be boring as hell. Currently the meta is so "open", that you can see a diffrent deck winning each big competition. Currently there are like 16 Metadecks (+ variants) that compeet in turnaments.
imo this shows that it is indeed balanced.
If you have a bad starting hand 9/10 times maybe your deck just sucks.
>enough damage to 2 shot a pokemon with 330hp but almost never enough to 1 shot a basic ex.Geuss what, if you looked into the game you would notice some "numbers" (like 220, 280, 330). You can put items onto your Pokemon to make that 20 extra damage.