I’m in the Vanilla league and have had equal opponents. The main reason I lose is either micro pig or bad shot on my part. In regular play I had two chillies but did not select and during play I received one which I played. Now I only show one chili in my spells.
@hank did say it was vacation time so he may be taking one and that’s why the silence.
Overall good update.
I would also like to know how people cheat. It would suck the fun out of the game so no interest in using cheat, though.