Y'all who are saying the "old system was better" only takes into account the fact that it was less clunky. The old card system was "Expand Balance or Bust (with Spear being acceptable)". Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. There was no meaningful choice of cards, and, on top of this, so many of AST's lower level skills were dedicated to the card system that AST was awful to play below 52. This new system attempts to alleviate this problem by making every card the same, but the problems lie in every target needing manual placing instead of being AoE at base. Sleeve Draw just sucks without the ability to store cards. If they brought that back, or if cards were AoE in their base form, I don't think people would hate the cards so much.