When I was ready to farm Landanel, I won more than I lost as stated (47 card at the time). The other guy gave some pretty good advice about how to beat NPCs, so I would imagine the problem has more to do with the way you are playing than the cards you are dealt. Yes random can probably make it impossible to win at times, but it's not as common as you people are making it out to be. If you haven't learned how to bait NPC cards or play the board to your advantage, which is stupidly easy when you know what cards the NPC has, then you haven't had enough practice nor have you paid enough attention to how NPCs tend to react. I'd give a detailed strategy, but I don't feel the need to spend my time helping players who don't want to spend any time or effort to help themselves and just complain about everything.