Lol, so today you chose me to be the unfortunate victim of one of your famous amazing battle posts. :)
Interesting analysis. Yes, that's true, in blast battles thorns are somewhat less effective than normal (compared also to the damage blast causes).
Chain Golem as a tank and Venator Kinjo + Enchanted Defender at the back would be a good start ...
Well, there the problems already start: so far I own no Venator Kinjo. :)
By design I am only using gold foil cards, and so far I hadn't the money (and the priority) to buy this useful guy.