Sanctum showdown feels very pay to win to me

Definitely just need to take a break for the day but every single game the opponent has Sam Wilson and it’s so easy for them to get power out early. I was having luck with a 2099 arishem deck but a good amount of people were running Cassandra nova and since I don’t have blob it’s hard for me to even tie that location. Idk though what are y’all’s thoughts so far?