Thanks for this article. I only joined GU in the last few months of the year so reading this really helped me put the game into perspective and understand its growth. The graph towards the end of the article genuinely intrigues me and helped me understand the crazy explosion GU's playerbase had. Here's to another fruitful and exciting year with GU in 2022!

Regarding thoughts for the new year, personally I'd like to see something done with the core set. At the moment I think the meta gets stale very quickly because expansions are so infrequent. To me the solution lies in the core set. In the discord I was floating the idea of having core cards be in a rotation (i.e. core cards are only made available in small batches—maybe ~30%—for a few weeks before the next 30% are rotated in. The cards are randomly chosen from each rarity so that there's always some legendaries, epics and the like). I think this would add a really fun dynamic to the game since the expansions come like 2 times a year at best right now. Overall I just want a way to freshen up the meta more frequently (I'm kind of over board wipe death and some other decks that have been terrorizing the rank ladder).

Thanks again for the fantastic article! Hope to read more from you in the future.