The new discourse about the coin not being good enough to offset going second is a huge red herring. The issue is with the cardpool in standard, not the coin.
The coin has been around in this game for 12 years, and most of the times the difference between going first or second has been there, but remarkably small.
The difference between first and second being well over 15% is something of the past two years. The fundamentals of the game didn't change. The coin didn't change. Wild, for example, has a narrow difference between first and second, too. Nothing changed, except the standard cardpool.
The whole discourse around the coin is frustrating to me. We've done this whole thing with reducing powerlevel, making the game board based, reducing complexity, reducing linearity -- this is the cost. Games with few points of deviance, limited comeback mechanic, very low agency and dynamic decisionmaking. We were warned, we pushed on ahead, and now we get to contemplate.
BUT GO FIRST DIFF IS NOT A COIN PROBLEM.
Discussing stuff like extra card draw on going second, or two coins, or whatever, it all misses the forest for the trees. With a record 4 record weak expansions and 4 record weak minisets (ahum, one being an uppriced "class set"), where we've hammered all interesting tools and all generalist cards and all swing options into dirt, this is what we get. A superficial 'board based' game where decks play themselves and decisions barely matter.
The huge go first diff is a direct result of the card pool, which causes the game to be snowbally, low agency and above all, having very limited tools to engage with your opponent beyond plopping down stats and hoping they live (they won't, because you're behind on initiative and your opponent will take favorable trades for the rest of the game).
So stop finding duct tape solutions for a problem that goes deeper and stop drawing attention to the non-issue of the coin being a fundamental design flaw. Start asking your developers to give you some good fuckin' cards to play in your card game.