The random rule is not okay

[Syrehn]

The difficulty may come from the fact that NPCs "randomly" pick 5 cards from a potential 6-7.

You hit the nail on the head with this one.

Not very much time has passed since Triple Triad made it's glorious release, and it’s quite possible that the random rule feels a bit more difficult due to the fact that players do not have enough cards just yet.

Grekumah, please log in to FFXIV (using 30 or 60 cards) and go fight Landenel. Once you do that then please come back and tell us if you really think that the random rule "feels a bit difficult due to not having enough cards".

[FoxyAreku]

This isn't exactly any different from the random rule in FF8 though...it was actually worse there.

[Nel_Celestine]

This isn't exactly any different from the random rule in FF8 though...it was actually worse there.

Except that you can stack your deck against random in FF8 by [Card-RF]ing all your junk cards before playing, stacking the deck in your favor much like the NPCs are doing here.

[Scalizor]

Except that you can stack your deck against random in FF8 by [Card-RF]ing all your junk cards before playing, stacking the deck in your favor much like the NPCs are doing here.

Back in FFVIII you could also mess with regional rules to change them, so it wasn't that bad. Dunno how they work in this game — they're supposed to be regional but I've seen two NPCs in the same area with different rules. Also, some NPCs seem to be unaffected by this and they always have no regional rules.