Gave this a shot and definitely, something needs to be done about the gold. Literally the most successful method I've found so far, is to use the swarmer methodology. Cheap summons and a lot of gold mines, a single iron mine to access those cheap summons that require iron, but ultimately, this seems to be a game of swarm tactics, rather than strategy. About 2/5 or more of a 50 card deck should be gold mines. The rest you fill up with cheap stuff. From there, just hope you start with a few gold mines, and repeatedly pull cards, play gold mines, and spam the drones. If it wasn't for lizardmen being 20 gold and the alchemy card, I wouldn't even have the iron mine in a deck.
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The reboot will be much nicer to new players ;). If you play a few times, you'll get the hang of it.