Thank you for your feedback; I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
I agree, there would be interesting design space in offering greater player choices/agency in events. I tried to aim for Stanza cards to have simple effects, but may experiment with making them more interactive in the future. Alternate face cards is a thought I've considered, but if that were to come it'll likely be a while.
The intent for the "stat of choice" effects is that they're limited to Primary stats. By top card of the deck for the 7 of Diamonds, it means the current Stanza deck - I only came up with Stanza as a term shortly before upload, and a few spots missed that updated wording. There are a few areas I've noticed post-upload where the wording's inconsistent or ambiguous, but hopefully I'll have most of those fixed up in future updates. Thanks again for bringing some of these to my attention.