It's really easy to build a mediocre deck. Grab a kill card, throw in some foundations to make it work and you're all set, if you want a slight chance against anything. I'm often in the position to describe UFS to outsiders, as I used to play many other CCGs, and not all my old playgroups play UFS. Competitive UFS is very challenging, much more difficult than the process I described earlier. Most of the time I find myself saying to players that want to play seriously, that UFS is a broken game, and that in order to be successful, your deck must be more broken than your opponent's.

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace." - Woodrow T. Wilson, 28th President of the United States of America

Now, of course Wilson was not talking about cards, but much larger issues in the post-WW1 era. However, I find this quote rather interesting as it pertains to the idea of finding balance in a realm of politics that doesn't usually lend itself easily to that possibility - foreign affairs. Extrapolating from that idea, I think you can see why it can apply to the current state of the UFS metagame since the notion of balance appears to have been thrown out the nearest window of the former STG offices.