First i needed some time to understand how the game actually works. Even the tutorial didn't help me much, so i had to trial and error. The game was a lot of fun when i finnaly realized how the game works.
The visuals are great though, nothing to discuss about. The pixel art is gorgeous.
The topic was met somewhere with my playstyle. With every failure i understood a little more how the game works. Was that intended?
All in all, this is a very fun game, with awesome visuals.
Thanks for giving it a try! I agree that i can be hard to get into, sadly I didn't have time to make a proper interactive tutorial. I should definetly put that in post-jam.
Naturally you need a few rounds of experience to grasp some proper feel for strategy, so while it wasn't decidedly intentional (and there should be a nicer tutorial at some point), i guess this aspect is part of the theme in some way. Initially, the idea came from "playing weak cards against strong cards" just being a failure of a move in many card games, so in this game, most cards can progress the game while having relatively simple and consistent rules (But I don't expect anyone to get this of course since the finished game doesnt really show where it came from). Hope that gives you some insight.
