He guys, I know you like to build your own decks, but let's just presume for a second that there are newbies out there, and those who won't buy any available chapter pack... those would use the out-of-the-box recommendations from page 14 of the rules. (After having tried the tutorial decks from page 4, that is.)
So, whereas the decks from the tutorial are much smaller, and the rule specifically says that because of that you DO NOT LOOSE when your deck is exhausted. Well, the out-of-the-box decks , that is another story, right? Although not yet valid decks (loyalty and not quite 60 cards), they're larger and as such the exhausted deck should make you loose the game, right?
Every ootb deck is set up quite similarily. 1 house card, 7 strategie cards, 2 complete factions ... AND ... how many neutral cards? It seems 8, at least for 3 of the 4 decks. THE OLD WAYS just has 7 neutral cards and thus lacks 1 card. That's 47 instead of 48 cards.
Finally the question :-) Is that intentionally?
(One might argue that those are not REAL decks, so to hell with the number. I don't think this is right, sorry. And even the tutorial decks are balanced... so?)