it’s purely the means to an end for me, the end being the fun of the moment to moment decision-making and dice rolling and, well, board gaming bits. (To the extent that probably 85% of my deck building comes down to “hit the auto build button in underworldsdb”, the other 15% being, to be sure, minor fiddling with a deck I already have set up - “this card doesn’t seem to work, let’s swap it with this one in the next few games” and etc.) So really, the thought of having a “sub-optimal” deck, and trying to figure out how to make it work in the game at hand - how to effectively use those cards that don’t make the cut in Championship, knowing your opponent is doing the same - sounds honestly really exciting to me, even (or, heck, especially) between veteran players. It can be fun to play a fine-tuned deck that “plays itself,” but it can also be fun to have something that’s more a puzzle to solve.(TBH I’ve been intrigued by the idea of trying “all-faction deck” games since beastgrave dropped and it became actually possible, but it’s hard to suggest when it’s not a “real thing”.)
All of which is to say, there’s lots of ways to engage with the game!
. I liked messing with the bird too but keeping it close to the action made it a tempting target, and it doesn't give you anything when it dies and you need warm bodies to score a lot of their objectives. They fall apart pretty quick to dedicated aggression and unsurprisingly my two losses for the day were when Dave took the time to apply some of that 
