Clank! Catacombs: thick deck meme vs reality

Every Clank thread eventually becomes ‘never buy draws’ vs ‘draws are gas’ and I’m tired of losing arguments to my friend who builds a 40 card monstrosity and wins because the dragon took a nap.

Catacombs adds all the map randomness so I’m wondering if the old deckbuilding gospel even applies the same way. Like maybe you need extra movement tricks and cant trim as hard.

What’s your heuristic for stopping buys? I try to pivot around 18 cards and then I panic-buy a teleporter anyway.

Also if you hate catacombs vs base tell me why — I’m considering selling one to make shelf space and emotions are involved.