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situation.

I've seen people spreading some falacies about the faction, so let's be more precise:

Last season they changed Pirate's Cove to "Spawn 2 Sea Jackals, 2 charges". And exactly there, the problem started. This is a leader that make you very comfortable about your coins, you don't have to worry about them, you can manage the whole game by not going tall with any unit, just thinning your deck with Sewer Raiders, Casino Bouncers and Boat and maybe some punishment with poisons, spreading your points around the units, and whenever you want you drop Sigi plus leader. You don't have to worry about 8 provisions in your deck to fit 2 great spenders, you can fit coin generators instead.

And now, in the current season, they reworked Jackpot. Another problem, even bigger, because in that case you don't even need many spenders, just throw profit cards and all coins are converted into boosting these units. You can even pass and keep boosting self with Tax Collectors and Imke (something that wasn't possible before) and win rounds by not having to play again, when, one month before, you were obligated to play another card. The units that could be removed before, now probably won't, because their bodies will grow with the amount of coins they overprofited. So you can't remove Sigi with simple cards, you can't remove Jacques, you can't remove Whoreson Freakshow., and so on…

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The conclusion is: they created 2 leaders that MAKE YOU NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR COINS AT ALL, YOU HARDLY HAVE TO MANAGE THEM. And this is the main issue with Syndicate, it is not Sigi, Whoreson, Professor, Witchfinder or any other card being targeted right now.

The mentioned cards can be put in Congregate, Blood Money, Off the Books, Hidden Cache, they won't make you win games at all. I've tested it, dozens, even hundreds of games. You won't succeed even closely to Jackpot and Pirate's Cove, it doesn't matter the cards. It is so true that I got to ~2510 mmr (and yes, I'm not a top player or very competitive one) playing Pirate's Cove non devotion, by removing Whoreson and Professor (when 11p) and replacing them by Geralt and Heatwave. It really didn't matter, the leader is just too good.

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So, nerf these 2 leader abilities, thats all it takes.