>>17280227Surprising Free to play friendly to start with. They give you enough gems to make at least 1 or 2 meta decks however the gems seem to dry up a bit later.
In terms of the solitaire shit, that's still a thing. A lot of modern decks rely on comboing into other monsters and summoning 4+ things to your board, it's a big complaint of the game when compared to how simple Pokemon TCG or even magic is. I will say, if you play it for a while you do get used to seeing the same cards and learning about them though.