It's been a long time, so I could have remembered how the older versions played a little. But 100% the balancing needs more work, since clicking play can lead to the first fight being a perfect mill deck where 2 cards are removed every turn, sometimes more if they get a better combo to restore discarded cards to mill, and then you can't fight back since you instantly lose when having no cards in the deck. I'd much rather have the discarded deck go back into the normal deck with a shuffle or what Hearthsone has with being able to actually fight back when at 0 cards, with losing HP for each turn with an empty deck.