It's an issue, yeah. I personally see GHEIST, Rescue, and Montana more often than I should. And yes, we all hate it as much as you do.
GHEIST/Gheist battles are the most boring battles (or GHEIST/Roots, for that matter). I like having an unstable ability, and figuring out how to deal with the opponents'. Nightmare and Piranas? Just as bad.

Lol, i get tired of seeing montanas with Hugo and Uppers xD anyway if u find tht many GHEIST and Roots try making a Skeelz deck, and if not Skeelz make a deck wich includes at least 1 or 2 stop cards (Dacote = 1 of SoA's biggest nightmares, 1HKO)

Well how else are we noobs supposed to win any matches if not for Hugo/upper Hugo/Rescue, Hugo/GHEIST? most of us haven't played 5000 games or know it well enough to use any winning strategies

Hugo/Manip isn't that good. If you guessed their pattern, you win, if you don't you lose. It turns the game into a "coin flip" style game. New players benefit more from them because they are more "forgiving". You can mis-pill and that turns out to be the unexpected winning move very often.

Well, these GHEIST-abusers will eventually eat a warm steaming soup of "ELO Ban" soon enough. Same with Roots.
You think Nightmare and Piranas are just as bad?
Nightmare have some pretty low-powered cards while Piranas don't get acceptable damage....either that or you just always get pwned by them.

I dont know, its all part of the game. i use Nightmare and sarkohm at the moment and its going well. although its tough playing against GHEIST, its always a good challenge, and often the same cards come up. no clan is unbeatable you just have to prepare your deck to face anyone and have a game plan in place. try mixing some SoA SoB of your own to beat Ghiest, Roots, Nightmare or Piranas. most decks are capable. i just get a little frustrated when i have sarkohm with -8 att min 3 against an Uppers deck with -10 attack, min 3.

http://www.urban-rivals.com/presets/?id_preset=1512925

You gotta be kidding me Master, Heroes and all Imperators... Am a newbie alright... And I see alot of Rescue dope with their +3 support , like WTF!!! How can u counter this stuff???
I found it cool playing with Nightmares, poison n stuff, then Freaks but hell. It may be fun, but LOSING ain't fun.
So what happened? I naturally turned to GHEIST... Voilà. End of story.
And sooner or later imma turn Rescue myself. And throw those RED CROSS UGLY BOXES! LOL....

Freaks are the best.

I kill them rescues with Jungo and Bangers nuff said
i just has trouble against anyone who can read through my pilling strategy