like any card game, luck is also a very important factor.
Once I got a mini ninja, 2 smoke bombs, and Super Brainz' carried away card as starting cards. And my enemy had no tricks up his sleeve ☹️
I just moved my zombie around and kileld him on turn 3. nothign he could've done about that ☹️
Besides the free class cards, most 1 cost minions actually have extra stuff to them.
This goes for plants too. Like seriously? 6 health for 1 sun? That's thrice the normal stat points of basic 1 cost plant.
a 1/5 cactus with bullseye for 2 sun.
Even shroom for two is annoying to deal with. Since usually you can only take down one of them at a time.
It's practically impossible to make each matchup balanced because the cards you draw at which time greatly influences that game.
Like, you can easily get rid of an armwrestler zombie if you draw berry blast or another trick in your starting hand.